It’s not that people who regularly exercise and eat well do so bc they already feel good and have the energy to commit to these practices.

It’s the other way around.

They exercise and eat well in order to feel good, which makes the commitment more effortless.

If you wait around until you feel good to move, you’ll stay put.

Start moving to feel good, and then watch the fly wheel start to spin.

The hardest part at first is overcoming the inertia. After that, it actually becomes harder to not keep momentum.

You start to realize how crappy you feel when you don’t do these things, and this becomes enough of a motivator to keep you committed to doing the thing. Every damn day.

And at some point you realize that a part of you clings to the past version of you, because even if some of those feelings suck, they inform your identity (or at least you think they do). And up leveling your identity is scary af bc there’s uncertainty in that.

Like somehow those shitty feelings, informed by real past experiences, make you who you are, and you want to honor them by keeping them alive. But you actually honor them by thanking them and laying them to rest. Time to evolve and rebirth the new version of you.