by LShun » 08 Nov 2016, 10:47 Life is easy for some, and hard for others. It might be meaningless, sad, hopeless, painful, and lifeless. Many people have different meaning of "fun" in life, but what's truly fun is the sense of achievement and accomplishment. This is the ultimate satisfaction that everyone will understand when they stand unfazed by obstacles that come crashing at them, trying to send them down and retreating in grief.
Asking for influence to give you fun and satisfaction is merely transient, it won't make a change in your life. Instead, you should influence yourself, that is the one way to reach new heights in your life. What we will get to know here is how to make your life better through self-improvement, pushing yourself to the "red-line".
The first step to a better, harder, challenging and unforgiving good life ( this looks like it is the only chance you have to call yourself a masochist, in fact, this isn't ) is to create a goal. Set yourself three goals: easy, moderate, hard. Be noted that any of these should not involve harming yourself, others, your future in any way. Lets see what classifies as these:
Easy.
-As simple as you think ( sharpening a dull blade to near extreme sharpness, finish four pull requests on GitHub's, work full time without getting distracted ).
-Should be achievable in a short term ( within a week ).
-Should not be impossible. ( For example going to Antarctica and back to South Pole in a day, is impossible )
Moderate
- Harder than what you set as easy ( For example, sharpening a dull blade to near extreme sharpness > sharpening the same blade to extreme sharpness and the retain it for 6 months even after using it everyday. Submit four pull requests to GitHub > Submit four pull requests to GitHub every week for 4 months. )
-Should not be achievable in a short term ( longer than 1 month )
-Should be suspiciously impossible ( Not completely )
Hard
- Basically a Hardcore mode in game. ( For example, sharpening a dull blade to near extreme sharpness >> sharpening the same blade to extreme sharpness and retain the sharpness for 1 year even after using it everyday. Submit four pull requests to GitHub >> Submit four pull request to GitHub every 2 weeks for a year )
- Should be completely not achievable in a short term ( longer than 1 year )
- Should be near impossible ( easy to break the streak, easy to fail, etc )
Set your three goals? Now for the punishments, as they say, "the higher the risk, the higher the reward". We will be redlining, in which we won't be letting our-self slip by a mistake. The punishments should be light for the short term ones, and progressively heavier. However, the same rule of thumb applies: Never harm yourself physically. Never harm others. Never harm your future. Some of the punishments we can give to oneself: You like meat? Break your easy tasks, go vegetarian for 1 month. Break your moderate tasks, go vegetarian for 6 months. Break your hard task, go vegetarian for 12 months.
Some things that I need to clarify before you start to put up that "never give up" attitude. The first thing is allow you, yourself be your judge. Its your personal goal, no one will blame you if you decided to forget and run away from them, no one will scold you for giving up and hiding in the corner. However, whether you will feel bad for abolishing your own way, that's up to you. The second thing is to always set a positive goal, never, I repeat, never, set a negative goal. ( If you have trouble about deciding what's good and what's bad, feel free to go Google about it. )
Since we reached this far. Lets stretch our body, gather our thoughts, and set your goal. Taking yourself to the red-line is no easy task, survive until the bitter end and you will see the fruit of success. Oh and just for encouragement, feel free to reveal these spoilers when you reached your goal.
Everything set! I'm ready to start.
I reached my easy milestone.
I reached my moderate milestone.
I reached my hard milestone.
