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“I've started exercising consistently and it's changing my headspace.”
Physical discipline and mental clarity are connected. Showing up to move your body on a consistent schedule is a concrete form of living within bounds, and the mind follows what the body leads.
Your Practice
Protect the consistency over the intensity. Missing once is fine, missing twice in a row starts a new pattern. When you don't feel like it, commit to just starting. Ten minutes in, decide whether to continue.
The Architects
“Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.”
Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, Maxim 31, "Select the Lucky and avoid the Unlucky" (Joseph Jacobs translation, 1892)