Eat the Broccoli First

Your doctor tells you to get healthy. She says specifically your body needs the vitamins that can only come from eating broccoli.

You can not buy junk food when you go to the store. You can take the stairs instead of the elevator. [The easy stuff]

You can start going to the gym. You can give up smoking. [The hard stuff]

All of these things are positive but you're still not getting the vitamins you need.

At a certain point, you realize there is no way to get around it: to get to where you want to go you have to do the hard work. You have to eat your broccoli.

Anything really worth doing is going to be hard work, and this will absolutely require you to do things you don’t currently do, which will for sure feel uncomfortable for a while.

This is the “hard truth” we must all face if we seek to make change of any kind. If it was easy, everyone would already be doing it.

To get to where you want to go you must figure out when and where the broccoli will get eaten, and understand that you will have to sacrifice something to get what you want.

All things worth doing are hard at first. Most people waste their life away trying to avoid broccoli. Those who ruthlessly go towards the broccoli, those who choose to eat the broccoli first, build a true advantage that non-broccoli eaters can never compete with.

Level up. Eat your broccoli.

PS -anyone ever promises you the reward you crave, and claims you need “no broccoli,” it’s most likely a scam.

Thank you Farnam Street.

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