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The Things I Enjoy The Most

Name: The Things I Enjoy The Most
Uploaded: 2025-07-27T00:01:08+00:00
Duration: 7 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this brief YouTube excerpt, two speakers discuss the tension between sacrificing present pleasures for future goals. Speaker B reflects on how…

27 Jul 2025 · 0 min

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In this brief YouTube excerpt, two speakers discuss the tension between sacrificing present pleasures for future goals. Speaker B reflects on how training, working out with a loved one, sharing meals, and writing constitute the three primary sources of joy in his life. He realizes he has been giving up workout time—one of his core joys—to pursue a goal he believed would grant him freedom to train more. Speaker A acknowledges this insight, and Speaker B declares his intention to no longer sacrifice his training, emphasizing a shift toward aligning daily actions with his identified sources of happiness.

We sacrifice the thing we want for the thing that's supposed to get it. And after a while you ask yourself, is this still the game that I need to keep playing?
Yeah. I love training. I love working out. I've been, I've been doing it. It was, it was my first love. The first thing I ever liked, like really got obsessed with. And over probably the last, you know, however many years, my training was sometimes 2 days a week, sometimes 3 days a week. It would be, you know, 60 minutes, maybe 90 if I got lucky. And I had this realization, it was during this year, 2025, where I was like, you know, there are 3 things in this world that bring me joy. Working out with somebody that I like, eating food with somebody that I like, ideally after I worked out and writing. The 3 things that bring me the most joy in life. And I was like, why am I sacrificing one of the only 3 things in this world that I know that I enjoy to get something that I hoped would buy me the freedom to work out as much as I wanted whenever I wanted?
And I was like, this one I'm not willing to sacrifice anymore.