Unintended Benefits Are The Ultimate Luxury
Some upgrades are pure vanity. Others make life itself actually easier.
Years ago, I dropped the gym motivation of wanting to look good.
Instead, I wanted to be strong. The pursuit was fun, challenging, and best of all — it was result-based. If the thing weighs 150 kg and you pick it up, there’s no argument, opinion, feelings, or hot-takes.
And looking back at that time in my life, I was hungry for strong doses of pure reality. I’m sure we’ve all been there.
Unexpected Benefits
A few months in, I soon realized almost everything related to physically moving my body around in day-to-day life had become easy. Really easy.
Moving stuff. Lifting stuff. Lifting yourself. Cleaning stuff and lifting stuff at the same time. Fixing stuff. Carrying stuff for infinity time without fatigue. Not joking, almost everything.
This is something strong people don’t tell you. Probably because they’ve forgotten just what it’s like to exert effort outside of the iron paradise.
I was secretly loving this. It was like the drag and exhaustion of every day had been completely removed from my life. Everything had been set to easy mode.
The unintended benefit was so impactful that it BECAME my goal.
I no longer wanted to get stronger and stronger.
I realized that simply being stronger than average elevated my experience of daily life to a zone where everything felt easy. And that was awesome. And all it took was a few hours a week of intense focus, selectively controlled pain, and eating enough of the basics to support it all? I’m sold.
My new outcome, goal, desire and reason for all of it became very, very, simple: keep everything this way. Stay strong.
Getting strong is challenging. Staying that way is a portion of the effort.
Hard work is done.
Cool Pat, wtf does this have to do with marketing myself to the world and making more money without looking like a jackass?
Well, I’m glad you asked.
Just like adding some strength to your physical frame makes EVERYTHING in life many times easier -- turns out there’s something you can do for your brain as well, to make every pursuit you turn your attention to achievable faster and easier.
It’s something I find myself teaching all my clients at the beginning of our journey together. So, I made a video about the simple process I use, called the Question Matrix (thanks
for giving it a name).If you’ve ever wondered why some people achieve stuff fast while others flounder… Well, once you’ve watched the video you’ll see the 80/20 of it all. Enjoy.
Every like and comment on these videos makes my day. I’m still finding my feet, so if you’re interacting over on YouTube, thank you, you rock.
Afterthought
I understand that most people won’t implement this simple process — even though the effort vs reward ratio is so crazy high. Just like most people won’t do the basics to remain physically strong.
But someone might be reading this, not knowing there’s a cheat code to rapid progress in ANY pursuit in life. And now, my friend, you know.
Current location
Scotland’s NC500 was incredible. It’s impossible to capture it, and most pics you’ll see are of the vastness of it all. So instead, here’s a glimpse of some stunning beauty on a tiny scale. Imagine a field of it…
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