25. Persist

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For 100 days, I'm going to publish a plus-minus hundred-word post a day on Steemit. These 100 posts will be the insights, routines, and habits of living a better life.

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Let's keep it real.

It gets harder over time, things get tougher, the chance of you winning seems impossible. Probably you’re just stuck, it’s not the end yet, but self-doubt started to creep into your mind,

Your mind creates a story — the story you created a few days (months or years) ago that you can succeed — was an illusion.

But let's us hold on.

You’re the water, remember? You thrive in constraints, in a tough environment, in an unfavorable situation, far outside your comfort zone.

Adversity doesn’t destroy you, it’s just the vessel.

Unless you're dead — if you stay idle, you allow poisonous liquid to flow into you, and you freeze yourself.

Now, let’s move on.

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Footnotes

I write longer articles about strategic thinking and performance improvement on DeanYeong.com. You can download my book about hacking your habits here.