SPARTAN SERIES #178: “PUSH YOURSELF BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE IS GOING TO DO IT FOR YOU!”

Aint it the truth? The longer and harder we train or seek after something we have got to accept the fact that “the cavalry is not coming to rescue us.” Each day that we stay after it the harder it seems for us to get closer to our goal and the less confident we are that we can get there on our own. All of us who seeks to win at bodybuilding has to decide what we have to do to be the last man standing on stage. Once we have zeroed on the way to get it done, it then becomes imperative that we stick to our plan and to do all that is required to be at the top at the end of the night. The best advice I can provide is that each of us abandons the idea that somebody else or some other system is going to get the job done. It’s at this point that “light goes on” and we face the realization that WE are the only savior for our endeavor. This is where we define ourselves as the architects of our lives.

This juncture causes us to get behind our own effort and begin to “PUSH OURSELVES” because the reality is that we have to pull up our “big boy pants” and do the hard work to win. It’s a fearful thing for some of us to grasp the concept that no help is the rule and it’s our responsibility to reach deep to make it happen for us. Remember that the world does not care about you or your accomplishments! You and you alone are the only ones that care enough to go on long after all seems wrong or lost, “Pushing harder on yourself” is the only way forward. Once we learn this foundational truth we are now empowered to win…….We will never be a dependent creature/competitor ever again.

This is our “lot in life!” No savior or helper must cause us to be better. My final thought is that we will win but only after we learn to “PUSH OURSELVES BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE IS GOING TO DO IT FOR US.” This is our greatest key to victory….It’s very simply “our choice” to push ourselves to win. Nobody gains real fame by association. It has to be earned by each of us and only after we experience the desperation and realization that winning belongs to each of us as we do it alone…..