Give Yourself A Gift
Give Yourself A Gift
Make a Commitment to Yourself
Sometimes we think we'll buy a gift for ourselves. More often than not we have earned it through hard work, and hopefully saving (although spending money you don't have seems to be a skill people are excelling at).
And that gift you'll buy yourself will give you pleasure.
Maybe for a few weeks or months. Maybe, if you're really lucky, it will give pleasure for years.
But like most things we buy, we always need the newer and better, so eventually that gift will stop giving the pleasure it once did.
This often catches people out. The hedonic treadmill they call it. The ever increasing need to buy more and more stuff in the hope to make you happy, because the pleasure eventually fades from everything.
But this isn't about the value of things or about your values themselves. Well not really. No, this is about how we buy things to get immediate pleasure, instead of investing in ourselves to get long term pleasure.
And this is why this Christmas, you should make a commitment to yourself. It might cost you more than a one-off gift. It may be difficult, but ultimately, it's more rewarding.
The commitment? Is to your health.
You see, most people aren't willing to make this commitment. Firstly, it's a large commitment and it's scary. Can you imagine joining a gym for a year and going 2, 3 or 4 times a week, every week, because you said you would? And can you imagine the feeling of when you don't do it, and feel like a failure (even though you're not). In the immortal words of Homer Simpson: "You can't fail if you never try", and so, we don't try, because failing is scarier.
So instead, we do what we usually do. Buy something. Something we worked for, yes, but something we don't need. The argument to this I guess, is that technically you don't need your health - until you don't have it.
Trying to argue that you need your health seems pointless because of how obvious it is. And yet, most of us do nothing to actually be healthy.
A new diet here and there. Motivation to join a gym here and there.
But rarely a commitment to yourself.
Committing to something that might not work (at least, not for a while). Committing to something that is hard. Commiting to something that can change your life and bring chaos into it (until it becomes your new norm). Sometimes a commitment to early mornings, after work training, soreness, pain, and ultimately doing the thing you don't want to do in the moment because it's the thing you should do for your future.
That kind of commitment.
And if you can afford it, it's okay to buy yourself the gift for immediate pleasure too.
Until next time,
Marco
If you found this blog helpful, check out my FREE ebook below, which we can only assume is even more helpful because it’s bigger than this blog. In fact it’s like 20x bigger! It’s pretty cool looking as well (just saying).
Download the free Ebook below ↓↓↓
