Not doing the thing is always easier than doing the thing

It’s easier not doing the thing than doing the thing, whatever the thing happens to be for you in this very moment in time. It’s easier to pick up your phone and mindlessly scroll until the back of your neck is stiff and your eyeballs are bloodshot red and your vision is blurry or flop down on the couch or in an armchair and tap the remote and voila! the TV is on with an endless buffet of shows and series and movies of whatever it is you want to watch even if you don’t know what that is just yet because the algorithm and the cable networks will have something anything something you’ll land on even though after watching it you’re thinking to yourself, “Why did I just spend an hour watching that crap?” I have this thought often of how not doing the thing is always easier than doing the thing when it comes to running or lifting weights or basically anything that involves exercise, not because I don’t enjoy exercising — I do — it’s just that I don’t enjoy starting the process of…