Feedback loops constantly amaze me. When you go up or down, it tends to compound into a spiral, either for better or worse.
Action, purpose, and achievement force you to become more efficient and effective, creating room for more action, purpose, and achievement. Focus breeds focus. Effort breeds energy. Good habits breed better habits. Happiness breeds happiness. These all breed flow, the ultimate state of human creativity, achievement, and possibility.
This is how the Elon Musks of the world happen. Elon is the result of positive feedback loops compounded over decades. There’s no normative judgement being made there— I’m not saying he’s “better” per say, merely that what you practice often breeds more of that thing. This is why it’s so important to be aware of negativity and the bad habits that bring you down. Dedicate every ounce of energy to stamping them out. To flipping the switch.
Because while it may seem like a colossal effort to flip the switch, the energy will flow more freely from there. It takes the most energy to meet the critical mass, and it only gets easier.
It only gets easier.
You get what you give.