All I needed to know about life, I learned in the gym.
One of the first things I was told in the gym was to treat light weights like they were heavy and heavy weights as they were light. I believe this is an Earnie Frantz quote. I didn’t really get this at the time, but as the years went by, this quote became clearer.
We all go into the gym and form a perception of what’s heavy and what’s not, and this begins to form an attitude of what heavy feels like that changes over time. For some, how the weight feels after they begin the lift decides their fate. If it “feels” light and moments later gets heavy, they don’t know what to do. For others, if it “feels” too heavy, you can see it in their eyes, and they miss the lift.
What I learned is no matter how heavy it feels on your back or hands, it doesn’t mean you can’t lift it.
In business and life, we all run into “heavy” things. Things that feel like they will beat us down. Things that seem impossible to overcome.
These may actually be VERY HEAVY and feel like more than you can handle but that doesn’t mean you can’t deal with and overcome it. Heavy shit is still heavy shit no matter how it’s loaded.
Just because it’s heavy doesn’t mean you can’t lift it.
Maybe you won’t “get this” but if you keep training you will. Maybe you do see how this carries over to life but you will.
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