Physical Intelligence - Day 60

There should be humour in our physical intelligence because even though we may find the Friends scene hilarious, the humour in it also identifies within us some areas of irrationality that are not physically intelligent.  We laugh not because of the absurdity of the scene but our own individual identification to it and the actualities of how we end up in showcase and not meaningful action.  If we find we are repeating old behaviours, first we should laugh about it.

The phrase that comes to mind most is QUIT WHILE YOU ARE AHEAD.  That is not bad advice especially in financial circles where we invest in things that only will go more South the longer we hang on to them.  What is at stake here is pursuing a particular way for 30 more days that will then abruptly end the moment the committed number of days have been observed.  Follow through is about finishing, and most of us are not mindful enough about how we finish.

There is no more appropriate moment than right now to play one of those DON'T QUIT motivational videos and I actually found one that isn't about battling for money or fitness, but this one is just about studying :

If we have to fabricate a feeling in order to make that feeling a motivation, there is more humour in that then even the Friends video example.  We just won't acknowledge the absurdity because more often than not it is we are who trying to prove something to ourselves that does not really need proving.  We just set up our life that way and that is where these things end in drama.

What I really need is a anti-motivational video that exposes those like me who treat motivational video's as complete parodies of actions that should otherwise not be that difficult to pursue.  Clearly even if I watch 10 years of motivational video's it will not change my attitude or ways anymore than the relative progress I have experienced while pursuing a 90 day log called "Physical Intelligence".   What does motivate me are QUITTING SCENE video's :

If at the end of my particular innings there is a eulogy about the major moments of my life, the myriad ways I quit things are more memorable as stories than moments in my life when I did not quit.  I even video taped a job resignation placing a large VHS video recorder on my shoulder and walking into my bosses office letting him know that I am handing in my notice and that I am recording the moment as a "family memory".   Motivational video's are one kind of hyped up drama, but when we quit we can create our own drama - so then why pretend to be a part of other people's drama?

Now there will be a Day 61 because I am too dumb to quit on a challenge that no one in this world enforced upon me other than my own decision - to log 90 days with the outside chance that after those 90 days I will become something other than someone who hates going to the gym and living a picture perfect healthy existence.  I completed the 90 day challenge last year and then went straight back to how life was before the challenge - it was like a rubber ball that had been squashed, re-inflating back to it's original condition.

When I look back at my life it is not the drama that accompanied quitting that was harmful or injurious to my life but following through, and I do have a stick through it mentality where my inner voice says "No Mas" as in the famous line by mythically cited to boxer Roberto Duran :