Actor and former governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger is offering up his advice on motivation and achieving goals on New Year’s Day, writing on X that building a routine is “the only thing that works.”
“As you start today with all the motivation in the world, remember this: it won’t last,” the bodybuilding legend said.
“Build a routine. Do it no matter what. When you really can’t, don’t quit or beat yourself up, just do it the next day. Show up, over and over,” he continued.
Schwarzenegger made the remarks in response to a Dec. 19 post in which he said, “My best advice is to stop using motivation as your only fuel.”
“I know it feels great when you’re fired up, but it’s a short-term fuel source. That’s why the vast majority of people who start anything — diet, fitness, new projects — don’t finish. They run out of gas,” the actor said at the time.
“The only lasting fuel is routine. And you only get a routine by dragging yourself on the days when you have no motivation. Over and over,” he added.
I struggled with this. I thought I no longer had a drinking problem because I only drank once a week or so. But when I would drink, I’d binge. It was affecting my mental, physical, and emotional health and I realized it was a type of self-medicating to forget about my problems. But it just added to my problems and I felt like shit more often due to it. It was tough but when I finally cut it out I didn’t really miss it. I wish you the best of luck!
Thanks. And I will definitely consider stopping altogether if I find I can’t control the binging, which is now only about once a month. Most of the time, it’s 2-3 drinks of slow sipping. I feel fine the next day when I do this. I stopped for one year a while back just to see if I could do it, and I honestly didn’t feel any of the supposed benefits. But I know for some people, 100% abstinence is the best thing to do.
I’m trying to be a better leader by keeping high standards while changing how you respond to mistakes. shifting from judging outcomes to coaching the thinking and process behind them.
It’s hard for me because I naturally see systems and consequences instantly, so errors feel obvious and emotionally urgent, even when others haven’t yet built the same mental map.
It’s hard for my team because they don’t have my reverse-engineering intuition, so they experience my clarity as pressure rather than guidance.
The work I’m trying to do is learning to slow my insight down into teachable steps, so competence can grow without fear.
But if you get flushed. It increases cancer risk significantly. It’s your body not being able to flush a toxin that’s carcinogenic.
Drinking already still increases your risk of cancer and if it was discovered today it would be banned or at least have a cancer warning.
People blame things like gout on food but alcohol is often the main culprit
I hope you the best on your sobriety. Myself limiting alcohol to a few drinks this year on occasion has been really helpful. I won’t say life changing as i was never a regular drinker. But it’s definitely unnecessary
Maybe our ancestors were so bad ass manly drinkers and drank so much, that only the wusses survived. Either that, or the women got so fed up they refused to marry drunkards for a for generations.
Seriously nobody makes 24 inch 4k monitors (though to be fair the size might make the resolution irrelevant). But OLED, HDR, whatever all require 27 inch or above.
Which I rather not have because 24 inch is already taking up too much space on my desktop but I need a new monitor because mine is having flickering backlight.
I guess when I was in high school 21 inch monitors were considered premium.
