Brook Slagle • 2024-01-28

You need to flip to a new chapter in your life (it’s easier than you think).

At some point, you might feel uncomfortable in your own skin, each day feels like it DRAGS, or maybe you just feel stagnant. You go through your day-to-day, and it just feels like you are standing in place.

This how I have been feeling for the last few months.

I have been slooooowly going up, but honestly, it’s barely a creep forward.

To put a label on it… it’s stagnation, and it’s my antithesis. I HATE stagnation.

The funny thing about stagnation is that you don’t realize it’s happening for a little while.

You get comfortable. The allure of soft things, sleeping in and decadent foods distract you from what is really important. Eventually, you either: 1. realize this is happening, and you make a change, or 2. you keep trotting on the downward curve until you hit rock bottom and hopefully make a change then.

Rock bottom generally means life-altering misfortunes (i.e. chronic health issues, prison, mental health problems, etc.).

My perspective & goal is well accepted: avoid rock bottom like the fucking plague.

So, to avoid this, I get off the downward curve as fast as possible. The first step is to realize you are on the downward curve in the first place.

I realized a few weeks ago that I was:

• only getting <7k steps/day, let alone 10k (my goal)
• using my “bulk” as an excuse to eat excessively
• getting piss-poor sleep
• and more…

And once I had realized that I was on the steady decline, I had to change it up, and change it up I did.

I believe that the easiest way to change your actions, which change your life, is to change your identity (I wrote a post about this and breaking down the ideal self, check here).

My identity was coasting… and I needed to realign my identity with my goals. Here is what I did:

1. Booked a flight to a country I have never been to.
2. Found a month-long Airbnb there that was cheaper than my rent in the US (+ faster internet too 🤣)
3. Bought a course
4. Changed my look: got a huge haircut + shaved
5. considering changing my name to Pablo (sarcasm)

All of these are external. This is by design. Our external environment plays a MUCH larger role on our daily actions (and identity) than we ever give it credit for.

My environment was stale, complacent, and cared WAY too much about American football. In turn, it was having a cosmically large impact on how I did everything, from introspecting to interacting with others to my eating habits.

My new environment is growth centric, and focuses on living life to the fullest. Stagnation is the antithesis of my new environment, which aligns with my identity.

Note: I know I am in a position of privilege to be able to just leave the country for months at a time (and go by pablo). Not everyone can do this style of thing I am doing because of a multitude of reasons from family to job requirements.

But PLEASE keep in mind, you can change your environment. You have control over your domain, and if you don’t have that, you at least have control over your mind, which you can change.

The change will be uncomfortable.

Remember: Growth requires discomfort.

It won’t be easy.

This transition won’t be easy for me. It will require more from me than anything else I have ever done in my life.

And that is how it should be.

Your hero’s journey isn’t going to be easy, it was never intended to be.

But it’s not insurmountable. After all, the hero always wins, right?

My prescription to flip a new chapter in your life:

1. Identify you are on the downward
2. Set goals to break your downward trend.
3. Break those goals down into steps.
4. Create your environment to support those steps.
5. Craft a routine within your new environment, commit to the routine.
6. Become an animal at execution.
7. Embrace the discomfort.

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As always…

KEEP GOING

B.S.

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