The mind is the General🎖️, the body is the soldier 💂‍♂️

People think that freedom is doing whathever you feel like doing but there's a key word there: feel.

If you always do whathever you feel like doing you are not free, you are simply a slave to your lower based desires, your feelings.

The thing is...

When you think a little deeper, conjure a vision for your life, figure out what you truly want (and trust me, it's easier than you think, you just need to sit down and actually try, people complain all the time that they don't know what they want or that they can't find meaning in their lives but... Have you ever tried to get away from all the noise and the cheap dopamine for a day, sit the fuck down and actually think in depth about what you want? Have you even asked such question to yourself? You'd be surprise by the astonishing fact that most of the people that complain about this have never even tried to think about it let alone journal with regards to it) you'll come up with a goal, an objective.

For example, you think "I don't want to be fat, unhealthy and unattractive. How can I solve that? I'll start eating better and hit the gym." Simple, right?

Yes, simple but now easy. That's the thing! Because when you formulate a goal and your do some simple reverse engineering of that goal into a somwhat consistent action you must undertake to achieve it... all of the sudden something comes up... RESISTENCE.

And what the fuck is resistence?

For that we actually need to understand something first.

The goal is not really the goal.

I know it sounds confusing but let me explain...

The goal is actually to become "he who can" achieve such goal. Because if you were the person that could actually achieve your goals... well, they'd be already achieved, woudn't they?

So your current self is not really the one who achieves the goal.

It's the improved version of you.

And how does this version comes to live? How is it built?

It's by meeting resistence with effort.

Resistence is the weapon of the old self, trying to stay alive within you. Trying to linger on and keep you as you currently are.

Resistence manifests in a thousand different forms: from fear to perfectionism, from procrastination and lazyness to arrogance. It doesn't really matter how, they are all the same and have the same result... they keep you from doing the work you know it must be done.

Are you really free if you can't control yourself for long enough to hit your goals?

That's why discipline builds up freedom. Freedom to choose, freedom to act, freedom to hit your goals and move beyond the limitations of your current self.

The mind is the general and sets the goals. The body responds with the current self and resistence when it's untamed. But if you truly want to experience progress in your life, achieve sucess by any definition of the word and experience what it feels like to be proud of oneself... then you don't want the puppet to be pulling the strings of the hand. You want the hand, your mind, with the information and knowledge you have feed to it, guide your actions towards the things that you desire and know are priorities in your life.

The mind is the general, the body the soldier.

Don't forget also to feed the general good information, the general is perfect as it is, but even the best general in the world with the wrong information will make a terrible blunder, so get into the habit of reading consistently, doing deep journaling to teach yourself to think deeply and on a logical and structured manner and make sure to cut out the noise periodically and stay away from the heard and their mentality. Unless you want to be part of the flock.

But chances are if you are reading this... you are a wolf, my friend. Hope to see you around if that's the case.

Now go and chase your goals!

Good hunting!!!

Delusion backed just by words it's just delusion but delusion backed up by relentless action... that's called faith, brother! Remember: Duty, Honor and Pride!

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