ColdShower #90🥶🚿 The Journey Within (a poem)

Cold coffee only tastes good when it's purposefully cold.

Shower thought via Reddit.

The ColdShower: Weekly ideas for better health, habits, and happiness. 

Welcome,

• Recharge: The Journey Within (a poem)

• Refine: How your habits can shape your identity

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Recharge: Runner’s High🏃✌️

Runner’s High - (noun), the euphoric feeling produced by running long distances and experiencing total clarity of thought.

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Lacing em’ up, again.

Every Saturday I lace up my shoes for a “long run”. Long runs are typically slow, easy, miles. I’ve been running ~10 or so miles since the start of the year.

What I love about the long run is it forces you to get inside yourself.
It’s a mental commitment to being “in it”.
And when you go in, you can always pull something out.

Here’s a glimpse of what I pulled out last Saturday, June 29th.

The Journey Within

Set your path
Chart your course
Give way to,
this magnetic force

Alarms silenced
Turn off time
Tune into,
your inner mind

Into the darkness
Into it’s depths
Your light peaking through
With each new step

It’s not where you go
It’s about going
It’s not what you know,
It’s about knowing

—Jon

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Refine: ⚓Habit Anchors

How to build good habits, keep core routines, and form an identity

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Forming an identity

It goes like this.

Habits + Consistency = Habit anchors
Habit Anchors + More Consistency + More time = A Changed Identity

Any strong habit anchor in your life becomes a part of your identity. When you do something consistently for long enough, it shapes you, good or bad.

I’d venture if you’re reading this, you probably drink coffee.
If I asked you about your habit, you wouldn’t say, “I’m trying out coffee”, or “I’m drinking coffee for now”.

There would be no doubt you are a coffee drinker. No doubt in your own belief.

You must believe it first.

I build habit anchors (cold showers, writing, running) because I want these things to change who I am.

To change, you must believe it first.
You must believe you can. Trust the process. And commit to the work.

Consistency over time

Now, unbridled belief without effort is just delusion.

True belief in your identity can only be achieved through consistency over long periods of time.

Work at it.
One day at a time.
Lay your bricks.
Brick by brick.
You’ll build a fortress.

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