You Don't Need to Buy Something to Change Yourself:
There's a thread here. You don't need to buy something to change yourself. If there's something you want to change about yourself, the purchase of a product won't initiate that change. What will initiate that change is your action. All that a product can possibly do is make an action that you're already doing more effective. If you're not already doing that action, then that purchase is a waste of money.
If you want to lose weight, simply watch your calories. Count them with a free calorie counting app on your phone. There's no need to buy diet programs or diet pills or anything like that. Just watch what you eat with care.
If you want to be more fit, simply start moving around more and leveraging your body weight. Go on walks. Do some pushups. Do some planks. You don't need gym memberships or exercise gear or videos. You don't need anything else until long walks and planks and pushups and situps become trivially easy.
If you want to learn about something, you don't need to go buy class materials or books or anything like that. Just go to the library, check out a few books, sit them on your bedside table, and read. If you want an overview of a topic to start with, look it up on Wikipedia and read the entry.
If you want to do something, do it. If you need equipment to do it on any level, go get the absolute minimum equipment you need (preferably by borrowing it, like a library book, or by buying used or very low end, if you absolutely have to) and then just do it.
You don't need items to do something.
(Via The Simple Dollar The Simple Dollar)
Why is it that the obvious things need restating so much? And then why do we (I) neglect or ignore the knowledge? As usual with Trent's posts, it's a head slapping moment.
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