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Easy Choices, Hard Life. Hard Choices, Easy Life.

This saying sums up everything you need to know about self-improvement in one sentence.

You get some leeway to start. If you grew up with disadvantageous circumstances, didn’t have the right breaks early on, and found yourself behind in the “race of life” through no fault of your own. Well, your starting position is…no fault of your own.

Regardless of where you start, though, ultimately, your life as it is right now is mostly a result of the decisions you’ve made day in and day out. And the thing that messes you up most? Small concessions.

Most people aren’t total screw-ups. You’re not a total screw-up. So why is it that most people end up with drastically different lives than the one they want? Small concessions.

See, you wouldn’t be willing to give up your life purpose, meaning, and ultimate joy on this earth all at once — it has to be taken away in small chunks for you not to notice.

Each individual concession is insignificant, but look up a few years later, and the trap you find yourself in was built brick by brick with each little tiny concession:

• Skip the gym once, cool, but skip the gym or doing the workout of your choice hundreds or thousands of times in a row and…