If you think about a vehicle, it needs to be maintained. If you don’t properly and regularly maintain your vehicle then the likelihood of mechanical breakdown is increased. I think most reasonable folks would accept this premise.
However many of us do not often recognize how this principle operates in all other areas of our lives and instead assume that if results are not immediate or no improvements are noted then there is no point in doing something.
What areas am I talking about?
I’m talking about literally all areas of your life and mine.
One example is to look at the notion of taking supplements for your health. Now you might be taking supplements for your health but because you don’t see an improvement or notice a difference when you quit, you conclude that they must not have a benefit for you. However going back to the example of maintaining your car. You could have a brand new car, and you might be doing the regular maintenace on it and you wouldn’t be looking for an improvement in performance because you realize that you are merely maintaining your vehicle. Well why would this be any different with regard to your health or any other area of your life?
If you want to be an empowered or healthy person you must recognize that the benefits of doing things regularly might be more of a maintenance function but this does not diminish the importance of doing them. I will leave this as a general post without more specific examples because I think that you as an individual can easily fill in the blanks, so to speak, with respect to looking at the areas of your own life. I hope you do so and this will help you to stay on track but also to start doing maintenance in areas where it is not happening.