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Why is Pain Good?
© Diamond Farah
If you’re like me, the thing that motivated you to change your ways in the past was necessity. Something went wrong, basically.
I’ve noticed this trend in everybody really, hence the wise old saying “Necessity is the mother of invention.”
Perhaps you were hit by depression, gained weight or started feeling tired all the time.
The problem when you’re back on top is that you’re not motivated to change. It’s easy to backslide into old habits because you’re no longer in pain from your actions…
Pain is good?
When I originally made radical changes to my lifestyle, and they were radical, I was pretty much a zombie. The necessity for change was massive and so was the motivation. CRISIS!
But I’ve noticed in myself that the better I feel, the less likely I am to make changes or be motivated. So pain is actually good — in the sense that it shows you in no uncertain terms that what you’re doing is hurting you… Read more
