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Originally Posted by Cron  In my opinion the core truth about personal development is:
To succeed at what you want at some point you will have to do something when you do not feel like doing it. There is no way around this.
There are many personal development materials out there that can give you useful advice, but none of them can make this reality go away. The sooner a person accepts this truth about life the sooner s/he can stop pursuing the next hot system |
I just read the comments in this thread so I thought I would quote my original post and add a new comment.
I think the people who disagree with me, like Steve, don't really disagree with me. I think they are taking my point to an extreme and correctly disagreeing with an extreme.
Yes, find a system to help you determine what the right and
rewarding things for you to be doing are. What is right and rewarding for you will change over time. Life isn't static, so, yes keep reexamining yourself.
My point is that there comes a point where you have found a good system, found what the right and rewarding things are that you should be doing
but even at that point you will still have to face the reality of
doing something when you don't feel like doing it.
I think people running away from that fact is what drives a significant part of the sales of the personal development industry. Those people are looking in vain for a magic trick that will always make them feel like doing what they should be doing, right now.