The idea that we all do our best in every situation in life is wrong. Recently I started to watch the Jocko Podcast. I started reading more, doing workouts on a daily basis, trying to stand up early (which doesn't work) and going to bed early (which works but being awake in the bed for 4 to 5 hours 8 days in a row is just destroying me), even quit booze for the last 10 days. 5 days away from my longest time off alcohol. Started again wearing my watch on a daily basis and planning my time more productive. I'm reacting different in situations that would escalate normally. I'm calmer most if the time. Started drinking tee. Didn't smoked for the past month. 

But I said that the idea of giving the best all the time is wrong and at the same time I'm sitting here saying I did my best except waking up early. So where is the point? 

Every evening I'm playing the game Overwatch with a couple of people in a gaming community. And every now and then I find myself inside the dumbest discussions. How playing with a 6 stack doesn't bring up your skill rating in the eyes of them or why they don't have to be a jack of all trades in a game where heroes get banned on a more or less random base. 

So what's the point? Just some young adults not understanding that you can improve and that you should be able to play everything to some degree? Just move on. 

But isn't that the concept that most people apply on a day to day basis? Why being able to care for my car and understanding how it works when I just can call someone to tow my broken down car to a repairman. Why being able to cook a full meal when I can just get the 99 cent frozen junk food which does the same job. Why hitting the gym or the home gym every second day when I just can sit at a desk eating some donuts. Why learning to sharpen my knives when I can just get someone to do it myself. Why should I learn a new skill or evolving my skills when I can just quit and go eat some chips Infront of my TV. 

Isn't that the same concept. Not learning, not evolving, not working out or working on yourself. I'm not talking about not being able to but not wanting to. Being lazy. Hitting that snooze button. Skipping that workout. Going the easy way. Cutting corners. 

Why putting sweat, effort, time even pain into a skill to master it, when you can cut corners? 

Because cutting corners doesn't bring you to where you could be? You want that six pack? Not getting it by skipping gym and eating junk. 

Wanting to be able to remember the times tables? Not getting it by quitting school.

Wanting the fast car, big house, awesome yacht? Not getting it by insulting you boss and doing a shitty job. 

So many people complaining about shitty jobs, shitty bosses, not having their dream body, not the car they dream of, not hitting their deadline with this important project. 

How often had you heard all of these things? How often were you the one saying it? 

You get out what you get in. Not putting the effort into the project? Don't hit the deadline. Not working out? Not getting the big bizeps and the six pack you are dreaming about every night. Not wanting to eat healthy food, not quitting on the junk food, not getting of your ass? Not living a long healthy life and being able to go from the front to the back of your house without heavy breathing. 

And still so many inside their own misery. Seeming to love it. Changing nothing. 

Change is hard? Or there is no way out? No other job? No time to workout? No time to do the extra work? 

There is. There always is. The only thing keeping you from being better than yourself right now is YOU. No one is putting you in chains, no one is locking you up. You are just undisciplined. It's your own fault. Change it or accept it. Accepting does mean stopping to complain every second about it. Stopping to change everyone and everything around you to fit your needs, your wants.

And still here we are. Destroying what ones was whole. From family to society. Body positivity, anti fat shaming, anti racism, feminism, men's rights movement, self diagnosis, over medication and many more. For some there might be a valuable reason. But not in the dimension that we are seeing inside our world. 

People going nuts over Corona, while not even being able to define what's wrong in their own life. People shit talking like they would know the cure for this disaster while not even being able to take 3 steps without being out of breath. Stealing other ones property while not being able to clean their own shit up. People buying stores empty without being able to use things on a rational level. 

I'm again kind of disgusted from not only my own existing but whole human kind.