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30 Reps For Better Posture; Growing Up Vs Getting Old; And Some Suggested Reading
It’s stacking one quality habit atop another, never giving up the search, and never thinking you’ve got it dialed in.
Darkness never frightened me.
Neither did whatever lives under the bed, the creepy neighbor next door, or scary movies at midnight.
Growing up; now that terrified me.
Or at least I thought it did. Now I know it wasn’t growing up I feared; it was getting old. And not old as in chronological aging, old as in set in my ways. Stuck. Stubborn and believing I’ve got everything figured out.
Or worse, not caring enough to keep looking for a better way.
So, I tried my best at spontaneity and assumed the best way to stay young was to avoid habits and rebel against routine.
I was wrong.
Growing up is realizing, as Aristotle said, “through discipline comes freedom.” It’s stacking one…