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Every day is made up of choices.

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1. Welcome to the Grid, author unknown, YouTube Video
2. Egg Zit Pay Pairs by Captive Portal
3. Don't Tickle Me (feat. Benadiction) by Captive Portal
4. Bruntleek by Myriadar

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1. Every minute of every hour of every day
2. Is made up of choices
3. Do this
4. Don’t do this
5. Do that
6. Don’t do that
7. Your biggest opponent in life is yourself
8. And every minute is a battle against yourself
9. This is AADA, and I’m Craig Burgess
10. PLAY WELCOME TO THE GRIND
11. That’s a clip from Welcome to the Grind, and amazing motivational speech
12. I couldn’t find the original author so I’m sorry
13. But It sums up the grind entirely
14. And leaves me with little else to say
15. Let’s get back to choices
16. Every day, we get to make a choice to do the work
17. Or not do the work
18. We get to choose to do that thing we don’t want to do to reach that goal we really want
19. Or we choose to put it off for another day and delay that goal we really want
20. The people who are 60 years old and didn’t do the work
21. Look back, and wish they’d made the better daily choices
22. Grinding is not just for World of Warcraft
23. It’s a way to make yourself better every day of your life
24. 5 times a week, I lift weights
25. Some days, I look at that workout I have to do
26. And I can’t be bothered
27. I’d prefer to do anything other than lift a couple of weights
28. But then I catch myself
29. And break the task down
30. It’s just 45 minutes
31. I tell myself
32. It’s 45 minutes today to make my life better for the rest of my life
33. To make sure I have a strong body, strong bones, and a strong mind
34. 45 minutes to give me a better life
35. I enjoy lifting weights
36. But sometimes I don’t
37. And I’d say it’s split 50/50 between
38. But I know if I stay consistent
39. And I keep grinding out session after session
40. I get better
41. I don’t have to do anything else
42. But just turn up, and be willing to put in the work
43. It’s automatic
44. It’s why I do daily 365 day challenges
45. It removes my ability to make a decision to do something or not
46. If I’ve said
47. Very publicly by the way
48. That I’m gonna do this thing every day for 365 days
49. I have to
50. I’m stubborn like that
51. Our brains are powerful, complex things
52. And it’s