Attitude.

Yup promoting Nike here. But seriously, if you are in front of something or someone that intimidates you or might intimidate you eventually, then the way to go about succeeding in it is to just jump in it like it wasn't even there. Meaning not giving your mind the time to process this feeling called "FEAR".

Because the longer you take to think about the possibilities of the things that could possibly go wrong, the more you are indulging in the doubt that "you can't do it". Which obviously you don't want, so jump in it less like you're gonna totally blow it and you can't do this but more like you're the best in the world and with a "suicide" type of attitude, ready to kill everyone in your path with your sheer awesomeness without giving it a second thought.

Now if you are prepared for the speech or that skydive meaning you have memorized it the words and have all the gear ready, then there is nothing stopping you from going out there and killing it other than your own doubts which will slowly set in the more time you give them, so don't give them that time. The first time of trying this is usually the hardest, but once you perform it off successfully then it will become a habit for you.

Personally, how i stay calm in pretty much every stressful situation is that i just pretend(and quite efficiently too) that whatever is about to happen isn't actually happening so i have all the time in the world to get myself ready, weather that's fixing my already almost perfect hairstyle or chewing that gum for a last couple of seconds before spitting it out for the extra fresh breath even though i might be running a minute late. I stay calm because i'm good quite good at pretending, and it brings the excitement to your life.

Follow this and you are one step closer to becoming the most successful version of yourself.

Key to Success # 1

Here is the first secret to succeed in almost any situation in life.  

Secret to life is not to wait for the "right" moment(to begin something) but to make that moment yourself by adapting the current environment, and using out of the box thinking to be as creative as possible(which leads to productivity) and keeping yourself positive and calm. 

It's not about complaining but it's about being fucking happy and being fucking grateful to God for everything you are blessed with. And making the most out of what you have right now to be 100% productive(that should be your aim at all times), it's about moving forward whether that's at the speed of a Bugatti or at the pace of a sloth the rule is not to stop!

The key basically is to adapt and still somehow move forward even if the whole world is leaning against your shoulders.

Martin Luther summed it up quite well in that famous speech of his: 

How to commit yourself to lose weight?

Gaining fitness whether you are in your 20s or in your 60s is pretty much the same, everything you need to do in order to shed those pounds and become active happens in your mind. It's this thing called "commitment".

Let's say you watch some movie, which suddenly inspires you to do something with your life, you go all like what can i do to make myself a better person? and then you look down towards your pot belly and go like "yeah, this fat tummy needs to go" so you get all dressed up in your cute little track suit with the running shoes and head out at 3am in the morning for a run in the neighbourhood, dubstep playing in your headphones you are in soldier mode!

You aren't giving up, and by the time your muscles alarm you that they need a rest, you realize that you have been probably running like 7 miles continuously for the past hour, which is quite an achievement, so now you have this pump which makes you feel accomplished and as the sun slowly rises you walk back home with a smile on your face.

Congratulations on your start on the road to fitness. But only one question: How many miles will you run tomorrow? ahh see you haven't thought about that yet and chances are when tomorrow morning comes you will go all like "you know, i ran quite a lot yesterday so i deserve a rest today" while you sit on that sofa munching on that german chocolate cake watching tv. 

The day after, your body is still sore as it begs for you to feed it more protein(which serves two basic functions in the body, one is to repair damaged cells and the other to make new cells in this case make new muscle cells in your legs which will allow you to run more) but naive you instead is still shoving useless carbs and sugars into your mouth in the form of pizza and coke further delaying that recovery process.

So today your excuse is sore body, tomorrow it will be that you are too sleepy or busy, the next day you won't even remember to run anymore. 

So there you go, all that work you put in that one morning now counts as nothing. 

"Ugh, Mateen quit the fuckin' intro and just tell me how to commit to this already!". Okay, here you go. 

There are 4 things you need to do in order to gain fitness and maintain it, during which you will build your commitment automatically. 

First and foremost, put yourself in an environment which encourages you to achieve your goal in this case a gym or a health center. I can go on and explain the reasons why this is important and all that but that will cost me a few thousand words to write, something you don't wanna read through to be honest. But don't worry after a while you'll know exactly why this is so crucial(in short it will encourage you to exercise even if you don't want to)

Secondly, get a personal trainer. Can't afford one? then find someone who goes to the gym regularly, who can be your gym buddy. You know someone who will pick you up for the gym or you will pick them and you two will go and train together. The importance of this is firstly, that you won't feel intimidated at the gym as you won't be alone and secondly he/she will be the person who pushes you on in those days when you are really sleepy or tired or depressed and don't wanna go to the gym, he/she will do their best to get you in the car and help you keep going.

Thirdly, enjoy yourself or if you can't(like some people who just don't like walking on the treadmill) then distract yourself! You can do this with a number of things, firstly make sure you are in the right attire something in which you feel comfortable exercising and which doesn't limit your body from expressing itself during your workout(like for example Jeans), secondly listen to something on your headphones could be music or an audiobook or radio, just whatever to get your mind off the fact that you are working hard(something your mind doesn't want you to do as it is already used to you sitting your ass on the sofa all day) and thirdly drink coffee before your workout. 

Coffee which has caffeine in it does a really good job in boosting your energy levels and making sure that you don't feel tired during or after the workout, it will help you feel euphoria that happy feeling which makes you just enjoy life. Also these days among bodybuilders there is this thing called "pre-workout" it's basically a powder(which consists mainly of caffeine around 200mg) which you mix with water and drink before your workout to give you that boost of energy to lift some heavy weights which you wouldn't normally be able to do if you didn't take it. So coffee is an alternate to that powder and is definitely a yes, before going to the gym but don't worry your coffee probably has around 60 or 80 mg of caffeine which isn't much to affect your fragile heart(if you are over 60) in a bad way as compared to the pre-workout which after consuming makes you go into beast mode for quite a while(as your body has overdosed on caffeine). 

And lastly the fourth thing you need to do after you have set yourself up with the above three things, is to search up and learn about nutrition and exercises which will enable you to make wiser choices when deciding what to eat. It will also motivate you into eating healthier foods, as you will start to feel guilty whenever you feel like feasting on some junk food because now you will know exactly how that food affects your body. 

That's not it, you need to design a schedule which prioritises your key responsibilities like if you have gym at 7 in the morning and then you have work then you should  probably sleep at around 11pm.  This will make you more conscious about wasting time which in turn will have a positive impact on your life. 

So there you go, do the above four things and then come to me if you still can't commit yourself into losing weight/gaining fitness.

To be honest the beautiful thing about working out is that you get addicted to it after a while, like if you unfortunately have to miss gym for a few days due to an event in your life then your body will automatically go all like "man, you haven't exercised in a while, i sure am missing that feeling of working out" which will in turn prioritize going to the gym in your mind and the next day you definitely will want to make time to go back to working out. You can ask any bodybuilder or weightlifters why do they work out, you will get the same answer "It's addicting". Well because Humans are made to be active, and not to sit on sofas and watch tv shows, your mind and body loves it when you do something it is made to do.

And so i rest my case, enjoy life and live in such a way that tomorrow you won't need to have any regrets.

Mateen.

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Possibility of Achieving Perfection

Hello everybody, if there is anybody reading this that is. This is my first post which will hopefully be followed by a few thousand more as i progress through my life learning new things and sharing them with the world. 

So lets begin, yeah? I want to start out by saying that life is one hell of a bitch, just when you think you have figured it all out, you are suddenly exposed to a new dimension,  a new way to see things. Think of it this way, you play a specific first person shooter game(let's say call of duty), and you suddenly become so indulged in it that you have convinced yourself to become the best first person shooter player ever!  so you start out as a beginner and slowly after a few weeks become better as you understand the game deeper, after a few months you become an expert knowing most of the moves and maps, though not good enough as there are still better players out there who can outsmart you, so you keep playing it for 2 years straight putting in countess hours in that surround sound sofa in front of that 50 inch LCD Tv all in an effort to truly master every possible move on every possible map and just experiencing all types of enemies knowing what to do when you achieve your goal, congratulations!

So finally after 2 long hard years you are the best call of duty player in that specific episode of the game(fuck yeah!), you think you are the shit, yes? Well sadly someone then has to break it down to you that there are 6 or 7 more call of duty episodes released or in the making and all of them have each unique maps, and more so different gameplay. Think that's bad? well then someone else breaks it down to you that Call of duty isn't the only First person shooter game out there, there are countless more with the likes of Battlefield, Killzone, Unreal Tournament etc.. All whom have unique gameplay and maps and weapons and different types of players playing them. 

Now put that into perspective, and compare that to life. You want to be the best out there at everything, don't you? you want lots of money, power and abundant amounts of knowledge to out smart anybody who dares to stand in your way, right? Well, to be completely honest and i am saying this rationally, you can't.. and you never will, in fact no one will. You can spend your whole life learning as much as you possibly can about the world but by the time you turn 90 you'll have realized that the knowledge you have accumulated the logic, the ideas, the ways, the countless things you worked on to understand through your entire life are now outdated! 

See that's the thing with us humans, we think what we know now is exactly how everything around us works, but that's not true, not even a little bit. See back up a few thousand years from now, people were onto the fact that the earth was flat and yeah by their technology and ideas of how things worked it did make sense to a lay man in that era. Fast forward to the current era, and people go all like "how the fuck can the earth be flat? it makes no sense to even comprehend the idea that it can be flat" well Pablo truth is if you were born in that time then you would have believed the same thing. My point is that what we now call gravity could very well turn out to be something else lets say a hundred years from now, what we now know about how the human mind works could very well  turn out to be false as we are constantly evolving, and i mean mentally when i say that. 

So bottom line is that you just can't achieve perfection, this is a really detailed topic and i would love to touch every vein of it but sadly it would take me a few months before i even get done writing half of the information and theories about it. I know my examples are really bad and my writing skills suck ass but i'm trying to convey my view through to the reader as best as i can so you too can see and imagine exactly what i think. 

I'm 18 years old, and i have a lot to offer already to this world, and this is just the beginning soon this blog will be filled with my ideas and ideologies through which hopefully you can be enlightened. 

Some of my posts will be short and sweet and really direct, while in others i will just pour all my thoughts and the main point will be really vague. This one was the latter. 

Hope to post again soon, later. 

Mateen. 

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