A speaker describes sitting in a cold tub: panic and breathless at first, then controlled breathing carries you through. The point is simple. Doing hard things you resist changes how you think about yourself. Action, not planning, shifts your mindset.
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I mean, sitting in that tub, that first like 20 seconds, you're like, like it's hard to catch your breath, and then ultimately, you catch it. And you're breathing so deeply, like in ways that I can't when people lead meditations. I'm like, duh, ba-duh, ba-duh, ba-duh, ba-duh. But when I can get in the tub, and get past the initial panic, the initial discomfort, the initial like, "Oh, what am I doing?" My perspective changes. And I even find myself sometimes like looking up at the sky, and I'm not loving it, just to be clear. I'm not like, "This is awesome, blah, blah, blah." But I appreciate it. Because I'm doing it. I'm doing this hard thing that I hate. I just didn't want to do it, didn't want to do it, and then I do it. And the doing anyway, the showing up anyway, that's what changes you. Every plunge can change you. The only way that you will know if you have what it takes is you are dreaming about this thing is for you to try and do it and allow it to change you. Because you'll either learn that those delay stories weren't necessary, or you'll learn how to do it better. Either way, it is the action, the doing, that does it.
