117 - The Grind

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Every day is made up of choices. Subscribe: ITUNES | ANDROID | STITCHER | RSS FEED Music and links from this episode Welcome to the Grid, author unknown, YouTube Video Egg Zit Pay Pairs by Captive Portal Don't Tickle Me (feat. Benadiction) by Captive Portal Bruntleek by Myriadar Line-by-line notes Every minute of every hour of every day Is made up of choices Do this Don’t do this Do that Don’t do that Your biggest opponent in life is yourself And every minute is a battle against yourself This is AADA, and I’m Craig Burgess PLAY WELCOME TO THE GRIND That’s a clip from Welcome to the Grind, and amazing motivational speech I couldn’t find the original author so I’m sorry But It sums up the grind entirely And leaves me with little else to say Let’s get back to choices Every day, we get to make a choice to do the work Or not do the work We get to choose to do that thing we don’t want to do to reach that goal we really want Or we choose to put it off for another day and delay that goal we really want The people who are 60 years old and didn’t do the work Look back, and wish they’d made the better daily choices Grinding is not just for World of Warcraft It’s a way to make yourself better every day of your life 5 times a week, I lift weights Some days, I look at that workout I have to do And I can’t be bothered I’d prefer to do anything other than lift a couple of weights But then I catch myself And break the task down It’s just 45 minutes I tell myself It’s 45 minutes today to make my life better for the rest of my life To make sure I have a strong body, strong bones, and a strong mind 45 minutes to give me a better life I enjoy lifting weights But sometimes I don’t And I’d say it’s split 50/50 between But I know if I stay consistent And I keep grinding out session after session I get better I don’t have to do anything else But just turn up, and be willing to put in the work It’s automatic It’s why I do daily 365 day challenges It removes my ability to make a decision to do something or not If I’ve said Very publicly by the way That I’m gonna do this thing every day for 365 days I have to I’m stubborn like that Our brains are powerful, complex things And it’s amazing what we can do with them when we give them a task It’s even more amazing how good we can get at stuff if we just stick at it And apply some consistency to our actions In life, we can’t rely on motivation or inspiration Motivation is fleeting, inspiration strikes every now and again To be good at anything We need to get used to the grind We need to embrace the grind And be willing to turn up every day Whether you want to or not Whether you’re tired, bored, or sick of everything You turn up And do the work That’s what the grind means OUTRO This was AADA. I’m Craig Burgess. Music featured in this episode was Welcome to the Grid, author unknown, YouTube link in the show notes Egg Zit Pay Pairs by Captive Portal Don't Tickle Me (feat. Benadiction) by Captive Portal Bruntleek by Myriadar For a line-by-line run down of this episode, go to a skadesignernaything.com/ep117 I’m back tomorrow for another episode of AADA Support Ask a Designer Anything Ask a Designer Anything Website Twitter (@craigburgess) Ask a Designer Anything on Facebook Leave me a review on iTunes