Maintenance feels easier than growth, but it leads to stagnation. Most people wait until crisis forces them to change, which feels good but comes too late. The speaker argues for choosing daily advancement instead, even though it's exhausting, because incremental progress builds real meaning.
It's far easier to advance than to maintain. You can sometimes maintain station through inaction, but to be taking on actions that are only keeping you swimming in place eventually leads to drowning. I've seen this happen to a lot of people in all sorts of domains in their lives. And the solution is a decision that you're going to advance. At the same time, people will maintain station, lose ground to a point where they feel like it's a crisis. They're running out of money, they're running out of energy, whatever. And then that will cause them to make the big change to start advancing and all of a sudden they feel much better about themselves. But if you decide that what you're going to do on a continuous basis is to advance, you're going to be more tomorrow than you are today. And you're going to figure out how to have that kind of exceptional growth that you've been doing so far. You will find that sure, it's tiring, but it's also going to be so full of meaning that I can't help but recommend that you focus on growing and not maintaining state.
