Ten years | ewy.one

Where do you see yourself in ten years? For such a cliché interview question, I have been asked this + very rarely. Incredibly, the only time I remember having to answer this was back when I desperately + wanted to be in the army; sadly a possibility that has now passed me by. However, thinking about + this question is paramount to long term success. Even the smallest habit you exhibit could have + disastrous consequences. +

+ Ten years is a long time. Too long, even. It would be unreasonable to expect people to think this + far ahead. After all, it's easy to justify (for example) a diet infraction: if you're peckish, + you want to eat. In the moment we know of the long term consequences, but we trick ourselves + into believing their helplessness in the matter. Ten years later, imagine how much fitter you could + have been, had you simply thought about it a little longer. +

+ This behaviour is very harmful; we train + ourselves not to be responsible, but to seek solace in short-term pleasure. Instead of disciplined + we become mere servants to our animalistic instincts. One can not call themselves whole if they do + not have control over their impulses. If you were to insist otherwise, you are simply delusional. +

+ To achieve this control, it is vital we determine what impulses are justified and which + should be quelled. The difficulty of this should not be understated; are you + really improving the right processes in your life? For example, I don't blame myself if + I get exhausted from physical or mental exercise (read: work). I simply consider these + to be unavoidable. This makes me a complete and utter hypocrite. + +

Although I could work more on my physical fitness, instead I delude + myself and insist that I like things the way they are. It is trivial to imagine what + my life would be like in ten years if I simply committed to going to the gym a couple of + hours per week, and instead I choose not to. +

+ What gives? +