This is inspirational and reassuring if you're currently in a BAD place, however, if you are currently in a GOOD place, it's rather terrifying and ominous

Love you too internet friend, hope you give yourself the love your deserve too! ❤️

That's...not the take I get at all "bestie". It's "Take what you're given and be thankful, peasant".

Thoreau was a self righteous deadbeat who lived on his friend’s land, 20 minutes walk from his childhood home and would get his mother to do his washing. He has a way with words, but not someone whose opinions I’d take seriously.

Regarding your question, the boring answer is that like most things, balance is required.

Becoming a mindless drone who optimises for productivity isn’t a good life. Neither is constantly living a life of leisure, which typically has long term consequences.

As a personal anecdote, I find “balance” by being acutely aware of if I’m in a “work” phase or a “living” phase of my life/career, etc and it has worked very well for me.

I find 6-9 months about right before I reassess.

Four and a half years ago I weighed 409 pounds (185 kg). I started a commercial Australian diet and lost about 45 pounds (20 kg) in the first six months with zero exercise.

As I was still too big physically to exercise safely, I started doing star jumps in the pool so the water would support my bulk and keep me cool. It was the perfect intro to exercise.

When it got too cold a few months later, I started daily walks. Slow, gentle and short at the start as I didn't want to injure myself.

I was steadily losing around 2 pound a week (one kg a week) so it got easier as I progressed. To push myself, I bought a weight vest from eBay and added 1 kg weights to the vest. I ultimately walked (and still walk daily) with the vest and weights totaling 20 pounds (9 kg).

I gradually built up the speed and intensity and duration to ultimately complete a daily one hour walk at 3.8 miles per hours for a full hour.

Two years after starting, I lost 220 pounds (100 kg), and have now kept it off for two and a half years after reaching goal.

It really doesn't matter if you use an elliptical, a walking machine, a gym, or just walking the streets around where you live. The key for me was to do it daily and make it SUSTAINABLE !!!

If I pushed myself too much, it wouldn't have been sustainable and I would have gone back to my old habits of junk food and no exercise.

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Republicans would call him a socialist antifa plant

You can read them, evaluate if the messages are useful to you, or not. I like to revisit this list every so often in order to make sure I am being a good leader, not just a manager. I find it helpful, perhaps you will too.

Seriously I did it and I only got started. 💪 💰

YEP! R/woosh😭

There is a book called Meditations that he wrote. I don’t think he ever made a list but these are all things he said.

Any evidence that he actually said these? Or a reason why anyone should invest their time reading this?

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Yeah that last sentence you said has been the theme of my past year or two

I definitely feel you on that

My huge focus right now is striking the balance between results and enjoyment. Not sure how much sacrifice to make for future happiness

I feel like I'm going through this right now. Feeling very apathetic, which is probably depression. Its hard to strike a balance when you have goals you want to reach.

Love you and thank you!

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Calm down!

There’s two other points I think of related to this

Henry Thoreau makes a good point saying most people are active participants in life enough to do physical labor, less are active participants enough to exert themselves intellectually, and very few live actively enough to have a remarkable life.

Maria Popova said something similar adding:

"But in our age of productivity, we spend our days running away from boredom, never mind its creative and spiritual benefits, and toward maximum efficiency."

The irony is, u/xausxreap3r is complaining about this post, missing the point completely. Redditors are fantastic at missing the point.

And about themselves. We're super into tearing things down right now, not so much about actually building anything.

I kinda like where i am right now tho.

We all have these fucking issues bro.

Some of us can work though it with confidence, gratitude, and kindness, while others don’t. Simple as that.

Yea, I was in the best place physically, mentally and emotionally and career wise and my fiancé just left me and I lost my job a month before that…. I yearn for 6 months ago

I always found going to the gym/ being active is alot easier with a workout partner, since you have an elliptical as well as a stationary bike maybe you can invite a friend over and workout together. That way you keep each other motivated and can push eachother?

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