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Knowing that you can accomplish anything, but having the humility to understand that the most important things in life take a crap load of work and dedication, is a great mindset to have.
But to know something, you need proof. And how are you going to truly know you can accomplish anything you truly set your mind to, unless you actually go out and do it? You won’t. You’ll have faith, which is a powerful thing, especially to any entrepreneur, or person embarking on a mission like transforming their body.
I relate building your ideal body to building a business. When you first start a business there’s a lot of risk. You know why you’re doing what you’re doing, and you have faith that your smarts and hard work will one day pay off, but a lot of times you’re on an island. Even the people who are closest to you might not fully see the upside, or the reason why you’re trying to take the road less travelled. But you do.
A quick story behind this picture – the other 2 photos in the sequence can be found on my facebook page:
To make a long story short, this is a man-made water slide on the side of a mountain on a nice man’s beautiful property in Maui. My reasoning: well, I may as well try and go as fast as I possibly can. Makes sense right? As you can see, I went flying off the side of the “slide” and proceeded to skid along the gravel that surrounded the man-made pool at the end of the slide.
The lesson: if you’re going to do something, you may as well go all out.
Ol’ Ebenezer Scrooge had a bit too much of it. But a healthy amount of greed – or ambition – is a good thing.
A Healthy Amount of Greed
An unhealthy amount of greed can ruin a life. It can blind a person to everything around them that is good, and fix their focus on wanting more of something they don’t need. But, a healthy amount of greed – which you could also call desire, or ambition – can help a person persevere and achieve all that they strive for. Healthy greed also means knowing when to quit.
Instead of reaching for the stars we often reach for the nearest branch.
Something that I’ve heard all throughout high school, college, and into the work force – that is also prevalent in the fitness industry – is that you should be setting ‘attainable’ goals. Bullshit.
When it comes to fitness, most things you desire are attainable if you’re truly prepared to put the work in, but also prepared to fail a lot, but continue to persevere.
The thing is, people rarely go after all that they want. They go after something that they want, yes, but a goal that won’t take too much dedication.
Am I saying to not set attainable goals? No. What I am saying is have an ultimate end goal, then set shorter, more attainable goals along the way. I’m also saying to not shortchange yourself. If you have an incredible dream, and you fall just short, you’re going to be a hell of a lot more satisfied and happy in failure, than you would be in achieving something that wasn’t all that hard to do.
You can’t wait for things to happen. If you want it, you have to take it.
I’m writing this from both personal experience and experiences with clients. There seems to be a few constants keeping all of us from reaching our goals. Once we change these obstacles it’s like we’ve broken through a wall, our training becomes more intense, we find it easier to follow our meal plans and we actually see our goals when we had previously fallen short.
1. You have a goal, but no reason.
Having a goal without a clearly defined and emotional reason to strive for it is useless, it’s empty. Goals and dreams are great and wonderful things to have, but unless we’re staying motivated, unless we understand why we’re working everyday to make them a reality, they have no meaning to them and they’ fizzle out.
Set a goal, write it down, then underneath write the emotional reason why you want more than anything else to reach this goal. Make it emotional, make it about life and death, about your family, about your greatest wants and desires, make it about those whom you care about most.
Having this emotional reason attached to a goal makes it much more than just something you want to get done. It makes it a mission that nothing will stop you from succeeding at.
