Practice #39 - Cold Shower

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:17,700 This is the first story from yesterday. 2 00:00:17,700 --> 00:00:33,300 So over the past week or two is the coldest week of the month and the coldest week of the 3 00:00:33,300 --> 00:00:38,780 year. 4 00:00:38,780 --> 00:00:48,180 I got very cold and I take cold showers every single day, even through the cold. 5 00:00:48,180 --> 00:00:52,380 And I'm listening to my parents say that it's starting to get warmer. 6 00:00:52,380 --> 00:00:53,580 It's going to get warmer soon. 7 00:00:53,580 --> 00:00:56,180 They're telling me about the news, the weather. 8 00:00:56,180 --> 00:00:57,180 And so I'm getting excited. 9 00:00:57,180 --> 00:00:59,540 I'm thinking, oh, it's going to get warmer. 10 00:00:59,540 --> 00:01:04,900 So now the cold showers are going to get easier because at this point, the cold shower was 11 00:01:04,900 --> 00:01:11,540 45 degrees Fahrenheit, which is freezing as balls. 12 00:01:11,540 --> 00:01:16,740 And so I'm sitting there in the morning, just finished my morning routine, and I'm about 13 00:01:16,740 --> 00:01:20,660 to get into the shower. 14 00:01:20,660 --> 00:01:26,380 And I'm thinking to myself, I'm remembering from the night before, my parents telling 15 00:01:26,380 --> 00:01:29,860 me about how it's starting to get warmer. 16 00:01:29,860 --> 00:01:30,860 And so I'm getting excited. 17 00:01:30,860 --> 00:01:34,300 I'm thinking I'm about to turn the shower on and I'm thinking, oh, well, it can only 18 00:01:34,300 --> 00:01:36,780 get easier from here. 19 00:01:36,780 --> 00:01:41,060 And I turn the shower on, expecting it to be cold, but not nearly as cold as the day 20 00:01:41,060 --> 00:01:43,820 before. 21 00:01:43,820 --> 00:01:50,660 So I turn the shower on, just slightly turn the knob to the coldest setting, pull up the 22 00:01:50,660 --> 00:01:59,040 shower, like the thing to turn on the shower because I have a bathtub and a shower hybrid. 23 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:01,540 And what happens? 24 00:02:01,540 --> 00:02:04,380 It feels colder than yesterday. 25 00:02:04,380 --> 00:02:08,820 I'm thinking to myself, oh man, I just have to endure through this. 26 00:02:08,820 --> 00:02:13,620 It's even colder than the day before, but I just do it anyways. 27 00:02:13,620 --> 00:02:21,540 I pushed through this shower and after I'm done, I'm just thinking, I got to suffer through 28 00:02:21,540 --> 00:02:27,260 this whole winter and it's taken a very long time. 29 00:02:27,260 --> 00:02:31,980 And it was like January 18th or January 19th. 30 00:02:31,980 --> 00:02:32,980 I don't know what day. 31 00:02:32,980 --> 00:02:35,900 It was a couple of days ago. 32 00:02:35,900 --> 00:02:44,900 And I'm thinking like February, I'm asking my parents and they said February is the coldest 33 00:02:44,900 --> 00:02:48,780 month. 34 00:02:48,780 --> 00:02:55,860 So it's a long grind pushing through these cold winter months, especially if you're doing 35 00:02:55,860 --> 00:02:58,220 cold exposure like I am. 36 00:02:58,220 --> 00:03:05,140 But it's worth it because you get the most dividends during the winter months for your 37 00:03:05,140 --> 00:03:06,140 discipline. 38 00:03:06,140 --> 00:03:12,460 The winter time is for building discipline and the summer time is for using that discipline, 39 00:03:12,460 --> 00:03:15,100 which I guess is also building the discipline. 40 00:03:15,100 --> 00:03:28,420 But the winter month primary focus is to build discipline.