Slowly Unseen Then All At Once In Your Face
Friend,
Things happen slowly, then all at once.
It seems that way because we don't see the invisible magic working in our favor. And since visible results can often take months or years to materialize, we get frustrated with our apparent lack of progress.
This excerpt from a great book perfectly encapsulates this idea.
The Water Hyacinth from Jeff Olson's The Slight Edge
The water hyacinth is a beautiful, delicate-looking little plant. Prized as an ornament, it sports six-petaled flowers ranging from a lovely purplish blue, to lavender, to pink. You can find it floating on the surface of ponds in warm climates around the world.
The water hyacinth is also one of the most productive plants on earth; its reproductive rate astonishes botanists and ecologists. Although a single plant can produce as many as 5,000 seeds, the method it prefers for colonizing a new area is to grow by doubling itself, sending out short runner stems that become "daughter plants."
If a pond's surface is fairly still and undisturbed, the water hyacinth may cover the entire pond in thirty days.
On the first day, you won't even notice it. In fact, for the first few weeks you will have to search very hard to find it. On day 15, it will cover perhaps a single square foot of the pond's surface ... a barely significant dollop of color dotting the expanse of placid green.
On the twentieth day (two-thirds of the way to the end of the month), you may happen to notice a dense little patch of floating foliage, about the size of a small mattress. You would be easily forgiven if you mistook it for a boy's inflatable life raft, left behind during a family picnic.
On day 29, one-half of the pond's surface will be open water.
On the thirtieth day, the entire pond will be covered by a blanket of water hyacinth.
You will not see any water at all.
-Colin
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Our ancestors walked an average of ~15 miles a day.
Modern humans walk a couple if we're lucky.
(Imagine a typical routine of bed to bathroom to car to work to grocery store to car to home to bed... barely a mile.)
Walking is moving meditation. It's good for the body, mind, and soul. Nature literally designed us to be walking machines.
Nearly every great thinker, inventor, andphilosopher in history promoted the benefits of walking...
Friedrich Nietzsche
"All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking."
Henry David Thoreau
"I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least—and it is commonly more than that—sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements."
Søren Kierkegaard
"Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it."
Walking helps with weight loss and digestion and gets you sunlight. If you do it barefoot, you get the earthing benefit. It's stacking the best things you can do as a human for your health, happiness, and longevity into one neat little habit.
Now is the best time to start a daily walking habit... don't cha think?
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“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
I’m Colin. Father, Health founder/CEO, Bitcoin / Freedom Maximalist, and Investor. I believe in Free Humans and Free Markets. 👋 Join me on YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, My articles
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