No finish lines

Many of the best things in life are endless. Being in a great relationship. Staying fit and healthy. Doing work that fulfills you. Being a good parent, coach, or teacher. Stop worrying about accomplishing these things and instead focus on building a life where you continually practice them. The important stuff has no finish line. – James Clear

These “endless” things are where good habits has the highest ROI, where 1% compounding isn’t just a nice marketing tagline, but really works. So far, my own experience speaks for it:

• Used to have recurring tech neck. Aches in neck, upper shoulder, sometimes even reaching up to the head. But since starting on my daily workout of pull-ups, push-ups, tech neck had become a rare phenom.
• Similarly for my recurring wrist pain. Repetitive strain perhaps, and early signs of carpal tunnel even! But since doing dead hangs every morning, that had really helped.
• Diet is another one. I’m on a hodgepodge of ketovore, low carb diet now. Basically trying to avoid carbs as much as I can, making protein the top priority, having some greens and fibre. Anytime I eat too much carbs, I feel heavy, sluggish, foggish. When I get back on protein-first, I feel much better. After cycling in and out of this, I can say for sure, once I start back on this diet, I can only feel better progressively, over time.
• Sleep too. Now I don’t wake to alarms. No cortisol and adrenaline to jolt me awake. But I still self-wake at 6am. I try to get to bed by 10pm, 10:30pm, so 7.5-8h is just about right for me. Doing this really compounds. Every time I travel and get a sleep debt, I can come back to this routine and know my debt will be cleared in 2-3 weeks max.
• I didn’t know this before but since discovering that tiny, chronic stress is worse than big, acute stress, I started processing it daily throughout the day. Any tightness gets nipped in the bug before it accumulates into something bigger over time. This negative compounding had definitely helped.

I could go one, but this are just a few.

No finish lines. Just consistent habits endlessly to infinity. And joy.