All I needed to know about life, I learned in the gym!
It's always hard. If you go all in, genetics aside, in sports it's always hard. If you go in knowing that it's always hard, you always have to work hard. Every excuse that you/they are ever going to come up with is negated. So what? "It's fucking hard, I'm tired," "So what? It's fucking hard." "I can't eat that way." "So what? It's fucking hard." The same thing happens in business. "I don't have enough money.” "So what? It's fucking hard." "I don't want to have that conversation." "So what? It's fucking hard."
It never gets easier, but it evolves and moves. It's always hard, but the things that you thought were hard five years ago are nothing today.
The longer you are around and the more you put yourself out there, there will always be bigger issues to deal with. I think that's part of life. I think that's how life works because we are all, at some point in time, going to fight a giant battle with our own health and our own mortality.
We have to be mentally prepared for this because we are all going to die. I don't care how healthy you are, how healthy you eat, what you do. All that's really going to do is push it back at best. It's still going to happen, but how are you going to mentally be when you are told you may not make it?
Are you going to be ready for that? Because the person that hasn’t faced any adversity or has avoided all difficulty their entire life or has tried to sidestep any troubles, critical conversations or any confrontation is going to be fucking destroyed. All adversity leads to more difficulty and, ultimately, death. Are you waiting to die or looking for ways to live?
In the gym, what are your standards for results, work, sticking points, injury, adversity? Are you looking for ways to succeed or making excuses for why you can't?
I have been told that it’s better to project how simple and easy this all is because it's more aspirational.
I think it's better to be over prepared, over informed and always ready to pivot rather than just blindly trusting the process.
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