On entering the gym, the first thing to see was a table of lollipops and chocolates. The owner said "Oh, it's Valentine's Day." Walking into the boardroom for a group that's there to enhance the life of leaders, they are serving choc muffins, cakes and sporadically down the table of the boardroom are lollies. The organiser said "Ah well that's what we always do, it's what the young staff member got from the shop." We can rationalise these things anyway we like, but rationalisation is a trap. You can justify it all you like. But downstream the future you is saying why would you do that? Downstream is where rationalisation really hurts. Rarely do we consider our future you. It's easy to rationalise why we take calls at our kids soccer match. Why we accept calls or check emails on holidays. It's easy to rationalise why we miss our morning workout. It's easy to rationalise eating rubbish at the Qantas Club. It's easy to rationalise sitting on a train scrolling mindlessly through socials. It's easy to rationalise poor behaviour or things you know aren't going to empower your future you, make you better or take you towards your goals. Short term gratification rationalised at the expense of long term damage. To understand how this rationalisation works, read The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, a book about the Resistance. It's why in so many areas of our life we find ourselves struggling ... where we give in to the resistance, and one of it's key soldiers is rationalisation. Soon those chocs at the gym will be Easter Eggs, then Halloween... it's a gym! Great snap, thanks Nick Fewings.
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