Daily Good Start : Sweatpants Syndrome

You know that feeling you get after eating far too much turkey, stuffing and fixings on Thanksgiving? It's that moment before you slip into a deep food coma....that moment where you put on your comfy sweatpants and melt into the couch. It's a deep coma state where the sedatives in the mac n' cheese have slipped into your blood stream and you are knocked out cold.

I think it's pretty standard that a majority of people slip into some state of Sweatpants Syndrome in life. The turkey was good, the couch looks nice, the tv is on...why not grab the sweatpants, pass out and call it Thanksgiving? I mean, your job is good, your body is fine (and I don't mean like Martin..damn Gina you fiiiiiine), my marriage is still on....why not grab a cup of coffee with the rest of the folks and call it a life?

Let me drop a knowledge bomb on you that you already know. The sea will never part for you, Moses. Conditions will never be perfect. Life will always be mediocre if you shift into neutral and rock the sweatpants. Get fancy. Get ballsy. Get fit. Start saving. Apply for a new job. Chase that dream. Do your research. Be a creator not an over consumer. Live, don't just exist.

My incredible friend Joy shared an article with me awhile back that loves to smack me upside the head now and again. I suggest reading the whole thing, but I'm going to give you the juicy portion that keeps me inspired. It's by James Clear titled "Successful People Start Before They Feel Ready" and this portion is a story by Sir Richard Branson:

"I was in my late twenties, so I had a business, but nobody knew who I was at the time. I was headed to the Virgin Islands and I had a very pretty girl waiting for me, so I guess, umm, determined to get there on time.

At the airport, my final flight to the Virgin Islands was cancelled because of maintenance or something. It was the last flight out that night. I thought this was ridiculous, so I went and chartered a private airplane to take me to the Virgin Islands, which I did not have the money to do.

Then, I picked up a small blackboard, wrote "Virgin Airlines, $29" on it, and went over to the group of people who had been on the flight that was cancelled. I sold tickets for the rest of the seats on the plane, used their money to pay for the chartered plane, and we all went to the Virgin Islands that night."

The article is powerful and one snippet that I love by James Clear is that he follows up Sir Branson's statement with "successful people start before they feel ready"

Sweatpants are comfy, but they shouldn't be your everyday look. Life is too beautiful to be mediocre.