Check out "25 Ways To Feel Totally Fucking Awesome"

Most of the time I do feel totally fucking awesome. Now I know why. I'm into almost all of the awesome-feeling ways listed by Chris McCombs on his Hardcore Happiness site.

Some, though, I suck at. Like #20, Sleep. Chris advises 8-9 hours a night. My owl'ish wife and I usually only get about seven, often less. 

I'm also not so great at #17, Minimize. I've got too much crap. But I enjoy buying more. Books. Longboards. Crazy Shirts apparel. Sandals. I figure it's better than buying crystal meth, hookers, or fast food.

Here's some of my favorite tips for feeling totally fucking awesome. Read them all. The guy has an appealing writing style. Peruse his home page for more Hardcore Happiness musings.

22. Don't Know

The deepest knowing, is the knowing of "I don't know"

Ever noticed there's no such thing as a happy Know-it-All?

Thinking we know everything, and trying to make other people realize just how much more we know than they do, is nothing but the miserable little ego trying to make itself all big and puffy. It's a direct line to complete fucking misery.

True joy comes from living in the wonderment of it all, having the mind of a newborn, taking things in and staying away from labels, judgements and the dubious feeling of somehow being more of a person because of the shit you know.

To fully live and experience life in all it's wonders is to slice open the filter of what we "think" we know, and come at life in each moment completely open to what the moment brings.

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." 

Socrates

5. Accept

What Is IS. When we argue with IS we get our asses kicked, but only 100% of the time

Everyone's life is crazy, chaotic and loaded with problems. EVERYONE'S LIFE

The circumstances of our life are never gonna be perfectly harmonious and chaos-free, with every duck in a row, every dollar in the bank, full of perfect health, happy relationships, kids all acting like little angels in the backseat as we hit every green light on Eutopia Highway. That's just not reality.

If we wait for things to be awesome for us to feel awesome, we are fucked. We are all guaranteed our daily recommended dosage of chaos. To resist the circumstances of our lives and internally argue against things, brings massive amounts of stress and suffering

If we don't like something about reality, the best thing we can do is accept it and either move on, or work towards creating circumstances more to our liking

Nothing outside of ourselves can make us happy, even Reality.

The way to true joy is through acceptance of What Is. To feel awesome on the reg, it is highly recommend you become an avid fan of Reality, even when it sucks

"Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man."

Henry Adams

2. Move

Our bodies are meant to move, our pores meant to sweat, our muscles meant to contract and stretch, and our blood meant to flow.

Plain and simply, we were meant to mother fucking train.

I don't care if it's power-walking with fun loving Mabel, Gertrude and Marge; sweating to the oldies with Richard Simmons, bodyweight workouts at the park, yoga with a bunch of sweaty vegetarians, mountain biking, Crossfit, Jazzercise or heavy powerlifting sessions surrounded by guys with shaved heads, goatees and giant stomachs in a warehouse-style dungeon gyms full of all things heavy and gnarly

If you enjoy it, do it. If you hate it all, find the one you hate the least.

Due to injuries and just bouts of laziness, in the last 20 years I've probably been training for 16 or 17 of it and spent a total of 3 or 4 of it not doing any sort of training at all. A year here, six months there, that sorta thing. For the rest of it, I have trained.

During times of no training, I absolutely, categorically felt like shit. Agitated, sluggish and moody.

I realize sometimes it's hard to pick up anything heavier than the television remote, the big one, ya know, the one that works for your TV, DVD player, Blue Ray, Nintendo and garage door

But if you just get up and get your ass to the gym, the workout WILL get done. You'll feel a million times better, actually 1.38729 million times better, but I rounded down for the sake of simplicity

If you wanna train, but have trouble actually getting out the door and doing it, Do what I do, lie to yourself. And not just any lie, tell yourself 'Big Chris's Favorite Lie'

It goes like this: "I'll just go do a few quick little light sets today, that's all"

It works awesome! In fact, I don't think I've ever ended up actually just done a few quick little light sets. Typically after the first few sets I'm fired up and gunnin' hard. Many of my best workouts have been on the days I've told myself that little fib

And guess what? Almost everyone who trains has days they don't wanna train, and many of them, just like me, rely on that little lie to get them into gear. And just like me, they have some of their best workouts on those days

Do whatever you need to make it happen

I don't know how people go through their life without some sort of regular training. They're a strange species, one which can easily be observed in any middle America town. Just go and have a seat at any mall or place where the Mid-West Beings gather and you'll see what I'm talking about

Mounds of body fat concealing what can best be described as dead muscle tissue . Shoulders rounded forward, palms facing backward. They look like they're headed off to a Star Trek convention.

Add in the look on their face of "If shit went down right now, I would not know how to defend myself from being eaten, so I better look as ugly and unhealthy to consume as possible" … filled with sloth meat, bitter depression and sour discontent.

That image right there keeps me training my ass off. That, and knowing how shitty it feels not to train.

Now I'm not always in great shape, in fact, I'm known to carry the extra pounds from time to time, like right now actually. But even when I'm drilling new holes near the end of my belt, I'm also training my ass off

Because I KNOW where sitting on it gets me, and that ain't no fun

There's something magical that happens at the end of a workout that can carry you through the entire day. Endorphins, serotonin, worked muscles, a clear mind and an unbreakable feeling of accomplishment.

"The Iron is the best antidepressant I have ever found. There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back."

Henry Rollins

 

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