To beat self sabotage and anxiety you simple need to take action. The action doesn’t need to be perfect, it just needs to be done. The only way to alleviate anxiety is with action. Here are some simple ways you can make taking action easy, practical and eventually turn it into habit.

If you hang out with people who complain, you’ll end up complaining.

If you hang out with people who eat a lot of shitty food, you’ll end up eating a lot of shitty food.

If you hang out with people who think their dicks are shrinking, you’ll think your dick is shrinking.

In 1997 Radiohead released OK Computer and became the biggest band in the world.

They went from opening for (worse) bands in small-fish arenas to headlining the biggest venues in the world in a span of a few short months.

They couldn’t go anywhere without the press hounding them.

The “Paranoid Android” video played almost every half hour on MTV.

They were being hailed as the saviors of rock music.

And their singer Thom Yorke couldn’t take it.

He felt like an imposter.

He felt unworthy.

He felt the pressure of expectations crushing him.

And he fell into an abyss of depression.

On the OK Computer tour he would perform, then go back to his hotel room and turn all the lights off.

Night after night.

About halfway through the European leg of the tour Yorke’s depression got so bad that he nearly quit the band on stage.

“That’s it I can’t take it anymore” he noted in an interview years later.

The voice in his head that started as a whisper had grown to become louder than the crowds he was playing to every night.

The voice that told him he wasn’t good enough.

That he didn’t deserve this.

That told him that everything was going to crash at any moment, and that the pressure would kill him.

When he was in the darkest pit of his depression he reached out to Michael Stipe, the lead singer of REM.

Michael gave him a complex piece of advice.

A big mistake people make when they first start going to the gym or they first start working out at home is to think that they need to perform every exercise perfectly the very first time they do it.

They’ll see someone squatting a big weight and think “I can never do that.”

Or they see someone quickly banging out a set of lunges and they think “I’ll never be able to do that.”

So they don’t even try.

Obesity is a national health crisis, and we can’t be bullied into silence. We have to discuss it and treat it as a condition, not as an identity. We’re not trying to change or challenge anyone’s identity, we’re just trying to help you live longer and enjoy the time you have here more.

They’ve allowed their Deus Ex Machina to halt their personal progress. We can’t allow it to halt our societal progress towards health.

This is a mistake I’ve made countless times in my life. You’re stuck between two goals. Building muscle and losing fat are two separate goals that need to be treated as such.

DOMS or delayed onset muscle soreness normally happens the day after you workout. You won’t feel it during your workout.

Maybe an hour after your workout you’ll feel tired and your muscles might feel “slow” like their functioning in molasses.

The bad soreness will hit you when you wake up the next morning.

Most people notice it when they try to stand up off the toilet. Don’t smirk, you know exactly what I’m talking about.