A measuring stick 📏

To beat yourself up with 🤕

Antoine Van Aerde

Nov 18, 2022

Hey everyone,

And welcome to issue #7, another edition of Hunch 🧐💭! If there’s any topic you would like me to work on - I’m **all ears in the comment section below**. Currently stranded in Mexico 🇲🇽… I am doing my utmost best to keep this weekly release going 🚀 . Follow me on this journey while many things quietly come to fruition 🦋.

📚 Hunch Readers

A measuring stick 📏

To beat yourself up with 🤕

Life does not run in a linear way. That goes for our habits too. One day you might skip the program, break that clean score you’d set out for yourself.

Guilt washes over, makes you belief you’re not worthy anymore. If capable to strike one indulgence, how can one still fit the image? As if suddenly handed an empty slate with no achievement to this day.

So the measuring stick comes beating, steers you towards 'social comparison banks'. Doubts creep up, force you to hide from further accountability because suddenly all is directionless.

How come I was so peaceful? Rather than jump back up, you stay put, sink deeper. The measuring stick poking into a wound that was non-existent, but now owns dreams.

Your reflection suddenly looks old, at stake. Have I been wasting all my time? You blame that goddamn pizza 🍕, for that one bite swallowed everything.

Pause and rewind, how blind can one be… Have you forgotten the 99.9% of consistent effort? The burning desire, determination, creative effort? It’s funny how little we celebrate the many wins, how hard we punish the few mistakes.

All learnings meet us exactly where we are at. There is no such thing as perfection or running behind.

Stay away from the measuring stick and keep working your great realisation.

"Action is the real measure of intelligence." - Napoleon Hill, 1883 - 1970

Comments more than welcome below if this resonated with you! 🙂 I am pretty sure most of us have been in situations like these… Atomic Habits by James Clear is a great read to keep you going 🔥.