You’re overcomplicating it.

I cognize you’re overcomplicating things, because everybody does.

Including me, nan nerd who studies this worldly for a living.

I shared a speedy communicative nan different time on ​Threads​ (and ​Instagram​):

A fewer 1000 group resonated, and I couldn’t thief but chuckle ​at nan replies​. Magdalena jokingly said it best:

When life asks maine to juggle chainsaws and past sets those chainsaws connected fire, I thin to get distant from nan things that support maine functioning arsenic a fulfilled human.

Lately, I recovered myself emotion a spot discombobulated and sluggish successful nan greeting and struggled to focus.

So I asked myself wherever I was overcomplicating things and could simplify.

I went backmost to basics.

I sewage immoderate exercise. I ate a ​balanced dinner​ (protein, vegetables, mini potatoes). And moreover though I’m hooked connected Playstation’s Astro-Bot (delightful), loving Slow Horses on AppleTV+ (Gary Oldman is nan man), and I’m really enjoying my clip on ​Threads​…

I put down nan phone.

I turned disconnected nan TV.

I climbed into furniture astatine a reasonable time.

Instead of scrolling societal media, I publication immoderate of Matt Haig’s caller book ​The Life Impossible​, and past went to bed.

Weirdly, I woke up emotion for illustration a cardinal bucks

I had nary problem focusing connected my work.

I felt better.

It works. Crap.

Simple, Not Easy.

Many companies manufacture analyzable problems to waste america analyzable solutions:

“Be acrophobic of THIS ingredient, equilibrium your gut microbiome, return these costly supplements, do this analyzable workout, bargain this costly mattress and disguise and glasses and machine, only eat betwixt 12:17pm and 7:34pm!”

Here’s your friends reminder to spell difficult successful nan guidance of simplicity:

Eat nan correct number of calories for your extremity weight. Eat protein, fruits, and vegetables. Strength train 2-3x per week. Go for walks. Put down nan telephone and spell to sleep.

If nan standard isn’t going down, trim calories consumed. Full stop.

Once we judge that nan solution is elemental (but not easy), we tin fig retired WHY we can’t get ourselves to do it.

This is nan acold much important question. We person hormones and kids and jobs and messy fights pinch our spouses and we’re each overwhelmed pinch inputs and accusation 24-7. Of people doing these things isn’t easy!

We don’t request to make it harder by focusing connected nan complicated. Instead, we request to retrieve that nan elemental solution is nan correct one, and put our attraction connected making that behaviour nan default one:

Speaking of which, Coach Matt Myers from Team NF put together a caller assets that dives into some aspects of nan above:

It’s our Starter Guide: really to eat and really to train, AND really to get yourself to do those things.

You tin download it free ​here astatine nan apical of our Free Guides page​.

What portion of your travel are you presently overcomplicating, and really tin you simplify it today?

-Steve