The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Marksissons and is narrated by Brock Armstrong.

Hi, it's Brad Kearns recording today's post with the title, The Importance of Non-negotiable No Matter What Rules.

This is an important post. I'd like you to listen carefully because Mark really worked hard on getting

the language extremely correct and meaningful because there's a lot of nuance here that you need

to pay attention to. In fact, I was talking to him about his recent keynote

address at PaleoFX, and he told me that it resonated with many people because he gave them a

little bit of wiggle room in their otherwise dogmatic approach to primal paleo living. And it's become a

big concern for people that are on that ultimate healthy lifestyle track to kind of try to

balance the pursuit of perfection and holding yourself to high standards with enjoying life

and giving yourself a break once in a while. So that's kind of what the topic of this post about,

getting those no matter what rules so that you actually do achieve things and accomplish

things that you set out to do and not get pulled away by the temptations and distractions

of modern society. Here we go. Behind all good intentions, the long-range vision, the ultimate

goals, the short-term strategies, or the daily routines is our bottom line.

What is the least we are willing to accept from ourselves on a given day?

This is a question, it's probably the most important one you'll ever ask yourself.

Experience tells me the biggest obstacle for people is their perception,

their perception of their circumstances, their perception of time, their perception of their

bodies, their perception of their potential. Anyone can dream up goals, but it's how we weave our

intentions into our daily reality that matters. We go through the day perceiving

our own intentions to be important, but negotiable. Simultaneously, we consciously or unconsciously

view others' intentions for us, for example, our time and energy, as fixed and non-negotiable,

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