The paradox of life is that one can easily create "problems" in life, it takes no effort, it just requires complacency. If you just eat whatever you want all the time, something which humans are wired to do by our biology that has developed through hundreds of thousands if not millions of years of scarce food, you will put on weight. If you just follow your desire and your impulses, something which requires no discipline or willpower, you will probably end up not living up to your potential, abilities or desires. If you adopt "Just be yourself", then odds are that you will probably find yourself in a place where you do not enjoy residing.

This is perhaps the irony of life, that the desirable and comfortable process leads to the undesirable and uncomfortable destination. Whereas the undesirable and uncomfortable process leads to the desirable and comfortable destination. When a person wakes up and realizes that their complacency has lead to a life that greatly differs from the one they envisioned for themselves, the gut-instinct of man appears to be that it takes very little to fix such neglect. However, much like the analogy of the house, years of neglect will require years of active behavior, at a cost proportional to that of consistent effort.

This creates a situation in which a person is comfortable with the path that leads to the undesired place, yet hesitant about changing the known for the unknown for a variety of reasons. In an ideal world, they would prefer to keep their inputs at the same level, yet change the output. For instance, keep eating whatever they want, at the quantities they desire, whenever they want, but lose weight. This disconnection between process and outputs are at the core of every problem a person experiences when it comes to self-improvement.

There are people who are unaware of the process, there are people who do not regard the outputs as worth the effort, there are those who expect the process to be a magic pill, and many other variations on what is at its core a simple problem to fix. However, the Universe cannot be cheated, years of neglect requires years of attention.

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