#539 It doesn’t matter what I decide

Living a balanced life doesn’t mean living average experiences.

It’s more like a barbell, or a seesaw, where you go all in on complementary actions.

Work hard, rest hard.

Write with total focus, then fully let go when you’ve hit your word target.

Work out with full intensity, then let your body fully recover.

So when you’re out of balance, the solution is not to come closer to the middle.

Instead, you start doing less of what you’re already doing or add more of the polar opposite of what you’re already doing.

Figure out your polar opposite pairs, and give them both the attention they deserve. That’s how you dance the barbell balance of life.

You don’t need to know how the story will end to start it.

In fact, if you think you know how it’ll end, you close yourself off from the possibility of it ending even better than you ever thought possible.

So start without fear. Start with an open mind.

Then keep going without fear. Keep going with an open mind.

Because you don’t even know half of what’s truly possible.

Isn’t that a nice way to start your day?