Question: setting the priorities

drty_pr · 2017-06-25T12:11:25+00:00

If you do nothing else, lift.

screechhater · 2017-06-25T12:59:39+00:00

Quit making excuses is the highest priority.

1- diet and exercise is the highest, but can be done in 45mins max and eating the right foods is zero physical effort

2- reading. Get to it. In sequence.

Your biggest obstical is your habit making process. Kill the excuse factory and move forward

rocknrollchuck · 2017-06-25T13:33:54+00:00

I work a 12 hour shift 5 days a week and still hit the gym religiously 3X a week. I've also made time to read the sidebar as well as all the posts on here and MRP, and the top 100 posts on here, MRP, and TRP. I've also read Jackten's entire comment history, and numerous other helpful books and articles not listed here. If I can do it, so can you. What are the top 3 things that occupy your time?

Aaren_Augustine · 2017-06-25T09:51:36+00:00

Married Man Sex Life Primer and Athol Kay's male action plan section, Chapter 16 if you got the book. Highest priority is your weakest areas.

UEMcGill · 2017-06-25T16:04:03+00:00

What do you want? What's your mission? If you have a mission it becomes easy to prioritize things.

I know it sounds woo-woo but it really does come from there. In your teens you needed to complete your education. In your twenties it's your career. By time you've become a father and husband all those things are for the most part accomplished so you turn into a fat lazy lump of crap. Evolution has made us to be warriors and protectors but civilization has made that pretty easy.

Me? My mission is to have intimate relationships and learn constantly. If I ask the question "does this help me achieve that better?" and the answer is 'no' its pretty easy to prioritize it. Things that answer yes are either tools to do it, gym, career, relationships, or experiences.

thunderbeyond · 2017-06-27T12:09:23+00:00

Check out audible for reading on the way to and from work. See if you can use your lunch break at work to do cardio/half a workout and then eat and work at your desk. How old are your kids? First make sure your time to them comes because your kids are high on your priority ladder...not because they're "supposed" to be high on the ladder, but because you want them to be. Then male sure the time you give to them is for you, because it makes you happy. Not because you are trading time for brownie points so your kids will like you. My kids are 3 and 5. I do stuff with them, but there are days that all they see of me is me working out and getting shit done. There are also days they don't even see me, I go right from work to out with friends. I give up time with them to make time for me. I've come to be ok with that.

As you've said and seen me say, there's not enough time in the day for everything. As long as you are using the time you have to improve or do, you must come to grips with the fact that there just isn't time to do everything.

rockingood · 2017-06-25T17:05:45+00:00

"Difficult so far to get the time, get of the house to exercise, even get onto these forums."

You have the same amount of time that I have, that everyone here has, that Elon Musk has, that Thomas Edison had.

How you choose to use it is entirely up to you. Use it writing out excuses why you don't have enough time.

But we'll all be lapping you.

I would encourage you to reset both your perceptions about your place in life and your perspective on time. Home, work, and these mysterious distractions of which you speak certainly play a role - I think - but so too does your health, both physical and mental, and your lifestyle, your marriage, and your family… devote more time to you and they all get better.

That's the entire premise here.

Without devoting the time you will be challenged.

But I propose that you have the time and are simply still too lazy and unmotivated to use it wisely.

gettingmymojoback · 2017-06-25T21:23:56+00:00

I'm writing this as I've just spent my day so far as making a healthy breakfast for the family, going for a run with my oldest, doing a HIIT conditioning workout when I got back, fixed something broken on my wife's car, went to buy healthy groceries for the week and am now in the process of meal prepping for the rest of the week.

I work at least 60hrs a week and usually only have Sundays off. If I can find the time, anyone can. It comes down to priorities.

Do you know how much easier it would have been to lay in bed, go grab some shit for breakfast and continue eating high carb/high calorie foods from the cafeteria at work? You know where that got me? Fat, out of shape and not getting fucked.

The first though out of my head this morning was "ugh, I don't want to wake up yet", immediately followed by "is this what you were meant to do? To lie in bed, warm under the covers?" That kicked my ass out of bed and ready to tackle what I had planned. Many thanks to Marcus Aurelius for the inspiration.

Your number one and two priorities in life need to become diet and lifting/exercise. They need to come before ALL else. They are the foundation that everything else builds off. Fix those first. You need to fix your diet to fix your body. You need the increased testosterone from heavy lifting to turn that food into muscles.

Look the honest truth is if being fat, out of shape and not getting fucked aren't enough to get you to look at yourself in disgust and make the time to lift, diet and sidebar, then nothing a bunch of internet strangers can say to you will change that.

Honestly it's not that hard to find an hour a day that is your time for lifting. Set aside a couple of hours a week for meal prepping (or if you can afford it use a service). If you own a smart phone make effective use of those 10-15 minute opportunities that come up throughout the day to get your sidebar reading in.

Like someone else already said, we all get the same amount of time. It's how you use it that counts.

Title	Question: setting the priorities
Author	thunderbeyond
Upvotes	5
Comments	18
Date	June 25, 2017 5:22 AM UTC (9 years ago)
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