Personal mantras and cold showers

One of the things I've been doing for the past month or two that I think has helped strengthen my "resolve" mental muscle is the following ritual that I do each morning:

1. Hop in a warm shower, shave and lather up
2. Turn the water all the way to cold while continuing to stand in the water spray
3. Rinse off and slowly turn around in the shower, getting nice and cold, while reciting the words to both Rudyard Kipling's "If" and William Ernest Henley's "Invictus"

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Personal mantras and cold showers

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