The BED Project Podcast with Bryson Q. Sessions
Business:Entrepreneurship
5:01pm, February 11th, 2024, West Haven, UT, Outdoor Workout
Mid superbowl, we gettin’ it done. Flexing hard for the haters on one (just kidding, I do not care). Go patriots.
I read last night; it was the very last task for my day. It was brutal. I was so exhausted that reading a mere 10 pages became the hardest thing I’ve ever done. It took every ounce of my soul to not fall asleep while reading.
A thought crossed my mind, and what was, “imagine if I – in the middle of reading – stopped and went to bed because it was ‘too hard’ for me to finish the pages.”
If, in the exact moment I decided to quit and actually did, it probably would have been euphoric. It probably would have felt relieving. I could now go to bed. I could finally shut my eyes and go to sleep. The hard was over with. I could finally end the day and lay in my warm, comfortable bed.
But what about tomorrow morning when I wake up and am confronted with the fact that I failed. I bitched out. I did not keep my word I made with myself. I got lazy. I took the easy road; the road that everyone else takes.
I forfeited growth, discipline, resilience, perseverance. I quit.
What about the days ahead when I look back and think “I really quit over not wanting to read 5 and half more pages…? Am I that weak that I couldn’t muster up the discipline to read 5 lousy pages of a book? Wow.”
What about when people come across my page and see that I’m all about working hard, exercising willpower, and building resilience? I’ll be a fraud… I can’t even read 10 pages?
Within seconds of this thought, I snapped out of the tired frenzy, corrected my posture, focused on every word, and got it done.
And while this may be so microscopic in the grand scheme of things, my momentum lives on and keeps building. Another test passed and another lesson learned.
If you’re going to lose a battle, make sure it’s something truly out of your control. If you have control over the outcome, anything less than a win is a conscious decision you made to be less than what you could’ve been.
P.S. Made a nightly intake form to track my progress every day. It takes less than 50 seconds to complete and tracks 20+ details of my life so I can reflect and see patterns and predict outcomes. Google forms baby. It’s free. I’ll let ya know how it goes.
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