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Manifesto

The everlasting problem with humans is that we are innately drawn to the path of least resistance. In other words, we’re lazy by nature.  At the current stage of our social evolution, we have come to a point where we are no longer dependent on hunting and gathering for our food. With few exceptions, we are not out in a field picking cotton all day, working a plough team through a field of corn, or hammering metalwork on the face of an anvil as our forefathers did.  No, we have come to a point where most of these tasks have been made much easier for us through advances in technology and agriculture.  Our aforementioned forefathers had the wherewithal to realize that working the body to exhaustion every day - pretty much sucks - so they strove to make it easier for themselves and for future generations by inventing tools and machines to do the work for them. These advances have freed up time and energy that have led to a better standard of living for many people, but they’ve come at a price – a population that never has to leave their chairs.

Generations later, here we sit.  As you are reading this, you are probably sitting.  I am sitting while writing this.  Your neighbor/roommate/spouse/father/brother/sister/grandmother, if not reading this post, a) needs to start reading this, and b) is probably sitting on the couch watching Two and a Half Men or some equally horrible show like How I Met Your Mother (which is actually the worst show on Earth).  Now, we may go to the gym or halfheartedly go for a "jog" (don't even get me started on that word) for 20 minutes and then call it good, grab a Gatorade for the "stress" that we caused the body, drink a triple chocolate mocha protein shake and sit in a diabetic coma to watch the actors on the TV screen, living lives more interesting than our own, all the while tricking ourselves into believing that we are in shape, have a good diet, and are up to the challenges of daily life.  

I'm going to tell you something right now.  YOU ARE DYING. Every day that you are alive, your life is one day shorter. 

The following is a message to myself, but I am guessing you can benefit from it as well.

You are dying and you have two options

1) continue to coast along and be pathetic by the year, day, hour, minute, second, picosecond and eventually—sooner than later, in all likelihood—die pathetic

2) stop being a pathetic loser and start becoming the person you want to be

The first option is easy and popular, chosen by the multitudes of fat, lazy people the world over, and that ethos is passed down, generation to generation, creating entire societies of lazy, fat, pathetic people who have lost sight of what it means to be created in the image of perfection.

The second option, while not easy, will be infinitely more rewarding.  It will bring years to your life and life to your years, as they say.  You will wake up every morning confident that you have done everything in your power to be physically capable of achieving success. On that same morning, you will be able to look down and see your feet, and you will be able to look in the mirror and look yourself in the eyes and not look away, except to notice a slight, knowing smile creep across your lips as you think about the work that you alone have done in order to be the person you want to be—the person you see in the mirror. 

Choose your own adventure, but choose wisely.

Thanks for joining me on a journey to improve. 

Let's strive every day to be better.