Speaker 1: 0:01

Hello and welcome back to another episode of Train for a Great Life. I want to talk about the concept of building something brick by brick, and I saw a photo that kind of really hit home for me today. I understand this concept. I still get caught up in it sometimes. So I saw this photo, two images side by side On the left, a tall tower made of bricks, all highlighted and labeled underneath everything that you can do, and on the right, the same tower, but only two or three of the bricks were highlighted of the hundreds that make up the tower, and that one was labeled everything you can do today.

Speaker 1: 0:51

And man, it kind of hit me Because if you're wired like I am ambitious driven, always thinking in possibilities then you've probably felt the same sort of overwhelming tension, the weight of potential. You see the whole tower, you know what you're capable of, but in the day-to-day you've only got the capacity to lay a few bricks and if you're not careful it can feel like failure. Let's bring it to the gym for a minute, so you walk in, maybe after a long break, or maybe you're brand new and you're in your head You're already picturing where you want to be Strong, confident, moving, well dialed in, maybe even ripped. You know, abs showing through your shirt. The vision is a gift. It fuels you, but if you let it, it can also paralyze you Because it's not at arm's length, you're not there yet, because the vision doesn't happen in a day. It happens in hundreds and hundreds of small moments Showing up, getting one more rep in, going till the end of the clock, learning a new skill, failing, adjusting, coming back again, brick by brick. That's how it's built, and it's not just fitness, it's business, it's parenting, it's marriage, friendships, wealth, mental health, every single part of life where we want to grow. You just can't shortcut the process. You can't stack bricks that you didn't lay.

Speaker 1: 2:18

The hard part is we often confuse awareness with expectation. Just because we see everything that we're capable of doesn't mean we're supposed to do it all at once. And that's where people get stuck. We look at a full tower, the business we want to build, the body we want to have the life that we want to live, and we get overwhelmed because we're still standing on the ground with only two bricks in our hands. So this is what I want you to hear today Don't let your full potential distract you from the next step. Let it inspire you, let it motivate you, but don't get caught up in the lie that because you can't do it all today, it's not worth doing at all. Today maybe you just drink more water. Maybe you hit the gym when you didn't yesterday. Maybe it's taking 10 minutes to just take a breath or call a friend or go for a walk. Maybe it's asking for help or saying no to something that doesn't serve you. That's a brick. They're all a brick. Stack it and then tomorrow, stack another one.

Speaker 1: 3:22

I've met and really gotten close to a lot of successful people over the last decade especially, and I've never met anyone who regretted showing up consistently. But I have met a lot of people who have burned out, trying to do it all at once, people that start at the gym. They already have this vision in their head and they're, they're all right. It's called all or nothing for a reason. It starts as all and it's way too much of a change. You can't keep it up and then it becomes nothing. So give yourself the grace to go brick by brick. You don't need the whole tower today. You can't build the whole tower today. You just need to keep laying the next brick. And if you keep doing that. One day you will look back and you'll realize you've built something incredible.

Speaker 1: 4:06

I've used this analogy often. I don't know why it always comes to mind, but I think of like someone painting a masterpiece, like a mural or a piece that takes 20 hours or more to do, and stepping back to look at the masterpiece after like an hour or two hours. There's just nothing there yet, right, and you're? You're only going to be disappointed by those expectations. That's it for today. Keep building. I'll see you in the gym.