As I sat down with my staff member Devon, a question emerged that led us down an insightful path: Can grit, that elusive mix of passion and perseverance, truly be taught? This episode is a deep, heartfelt exploration of that very concept, where we discuss the significant role grit plays in our pursuit of fitness goals, business success, and personal growth. Our conversation uses the commitment to 216 hours in the gym each year as a case study for the persistent effort needed to achieve true transformation, illustrating just how personalized and pivotal grit is for long-term accomplishment.
Through the lens of my own journey, battling the shadows of negativity and depression since middle school, I offer up anecdotes of how I chiseled my path with tenacity as my guide. The stories shared in this episode are not just mine but also those of athletes and entrepreneurs who illuminate the reality that success is often a product of relentless pursuit. We delve into the power of our "why"—the driving force behind our actions—and discuss how this emotional underpinning is critical in fostering the resilience needed to face and overcome adversity.
Rounding out our discussion, we emphasize the transformative effect of ditching the victim mentality and taking personal responsibility for our goals. This episode is not just an exploration but an invitation to self-reflection and the cultivation of a growth mindset. By starting with small challenges, we can build the resilience and determination necessary for success. So, whether you're lifting weights, launching businesses, or simply seeking personal empowerment, this episode is a testament to the boundless potential that grit unlocks within us all.
As I sat down with my staff member Devon, a question emerged that led us down an insightful path: Can grit, that elusive mix of passion and perseverance, truly be taught? This episode is a deep, heartfelt exploration of that very concept, where we discuss the significant role grit plays in our pursuit of fitness goals, business success, and personal growth. Our conversation uses the commitment to 216 hours in the gym each year as a case study for the persistent effort needed to achieve true transformation, illustrating just how personalized and pivotal grit is for long-term accomplishment.
Through the lens of my own journey, battling the shadows of negativity and depression since middle school, I offer up anecdotes of how I chiseled my path with tenacity as my guide. The stories shared in this episode are not just mine but also those of athletes and entrepreneurs who illuminate the reality that success is often a product of relentless pursuit. We delve into the power of our "why"—the driving force behind our actions—and discuss how this emotional underpinning is critical in fostering the resilience needed to face and overcome adversity.
Rounding out our discussion, we emphasize the transformative effect of ditching the victim mentality and taking personal responsibility for our goals. This episode is not just an exploration but an invitation to self-reflection and the cultivation of a growth mindset. By starting with small challenges, we can build the resilience and determination necessary for success. So, whether you're lifting weights, launching businesses, or simply seeking personal empowerment, this episode is a testament to the boundless potential that grit unlocks within us all.
Hello and welcome to another episode of health and fitness redefined. I'm your host, anthony Amen, and we have a great episode for all of you today. You may know, anthony, it's Saturday night, monday. I know we're going live. So if you're listening to this on a recording when it comes out Monday on the general podcast, please let me know how you enjoy this. If you're listening live right now, if you chime on in, I am going to engage the audience because this is just going to be one of those topics that I'm so passionate about. I was like, you know, let's come out and do this live and let's see how everyone else feels. So how do we all start?
Speaker 1:Yesterday at the gym talking to one of my staff members there, devin, we're talking about business stuff and it generally just leads into this conversation of great and we're trying to figure out if it's something that's teachable. Like how do you explain to somebody, especially in the fitness component, the capacity? So how do you explain someone that great is a long process, something you really have to push through? And if you look at this from strictly working out and strictly fitness, we can say in the course of one year, if you come to the gym four hours every single week, that's 52 weeks in a year. Times four, that's 216 hours you have to commit in order to really see true change. If you come to the gym once, you come to the gym twice, you're not going to see change. So therefore one can come to the conclusion that through grit and perseverance, constantly coming and constantly getting myself to the gym, I'm able to see those long term results that I wouldn't see if I didn't have the capacity to achieve any level of grit. So that's kind of the surface level issue that it came up and then it had me thinking and I was up all night thinking about this all day today.
Speaker 1:Is grit teachable? Is it something we can give on to other people? So before we get into that, we got to determine and define what is grit. When you just look at the definition of grit, obviously, besides small particles, it's courage and resolve or strength of character. More importantly, it's passion and perseverance toward a typical goal that one may have. We look at people. The right life, and I mean fitness, is obviously a general example, but you see it everywhere Business owners, what same person is going to leave $100,000 in your job to take their entire life savings to go into opening and starting their own business, no matter what the industry may be, not make any money, with just the chance that they become the top 5% of businesses in order to make a good stream of revenue. Right, that's grit, I think. One of the coolest examples of it, I think what everyone really thinks of when they think of it.
Speaker 1:And a little shout out to Harmosi if you're listening to this, rocky Everyone's seen the movie Rocky or if you haven't, sylvester Stallone he's getting trained and he just gets beat up over and over and over again, but he keeps on standing up and pushing forward. You see a cutscene of him training. That cutscene lasts 5 minutes. Cops into the ring, he gets beat over and over and over and over and over and over again, but keeps pushing through. He ultimately loses the fight at the end of the movie. But it shows that through grit and through strength and through perseverance, he was able to go through it and get in the ring to the championship fight and make it all the way to the last round, even though he was the one that was supposed to be knocked out. Not even in the finals. He was a no-name fighter going against the best of the best that shows grit.
Speaker 1:So can grit be taught? I asked this question on Facebook and a lot of people had a lot of different answers and I think I came to the conclusion that's the no, and I'm not trying to give a cop out of just going both sides here. But let me explain. I think grit is not an overall trait. I think it's a passion and perseverance and a specific avenue, and what I mean by that is I have more grit than others when it comes to fitness. I have more grit than others when it comes to owning a business. I do not have more grit than others when it comes to learning the piano. I do not have more grit than others when it comes to typing or painting. Those different categories are things that I don't have passion for. So I really, truly believe, in order to define grit order, to save someone that has grit, they need to have passion. If you don't have passion or something, you're never going to go ahead and push through hard times and wanting to keep moving forward, because, ultimately, the things that are the most rewarding and the things that give back the most don't come overnight. They don't just wake up and all of a sudden I did an hour's worth of hard work and I'm there.
Speaker 1:Well, go back to the gym example. If you really want to see change in the gym, you need to do two to 16 hours over the course of a year just to start seeing changes. You want to take that to an athlete level. We can go now times that by 10 over the course of 10 years that it took for somebody to go from, let's say, that junior high school level all the way up to professionally. So now we're over 2100, 21, 260 hours at a minimum that an athlete's putting in to potentially make it to the top 1% of the class.
Speaker 1:But let's take it a step further. We stick to just an athlete example. Their passion is that sport. Right, you have to be passionate in a specific sport you're going towards in order to do this kind of what some people will see as pure, just insanity. And now it's not just the gym time. You take the gym time and you take the time you're practicing at your sport. So if your gym time, just for easy math, is 3000 hours over 10 years, now you take your sport time is another 3000 hours over 10 years. So now we're committing 6000 hours over the course of 10 years to get to the next level.
Speaker 1:But everybody's doing that. So what else are you doing? Well, simply, I can tell you from experience athletes are very, very regimented in everything in their lives. When you get to the professional level, you need to have 100% output all the time. So things as simple as sleep are scheduled. You go to bed at the same time, you sleep the same amount of hours like seven, eight hours, whatever your body is meant to be at and you wake up at the same time every day for the 10 years. There's no cheat days. There's no. I went to McDonald's and had five burgers. You know why? Because your competition is not doing that. You want to be 1% better than everybody else. You have to do the 1% extra that no one else is doing. There's no going out with friends drinking on a Saturday night. Alcohol is just going to kill you and set you back. There's nothing that you do when your day to day that's not timed, tracked and followed up on, you have to add in all these extra components. So now it's 24 hours a day over the course of 10 years. That's being tracked for this one individual throughout their lives.
Speaker 1:That's hard. You know how hard it is to tell somebody hey, I don't want to go out tonight, I have to get ready to go play baseball, I'm going to just play baseball for six hours today. I don't understand why they have to go back up. No, I need to be better. And people don't understand, or even don't want to understand, how much passion and how hard it is to get to a professional level. And it's not just innate. Maybe you have slightly better skill on certain stages, but usually the ones that are the best skills don't practice the most and therefore actually don't even becoming the athletes overall Don't make it to a professional level. It's really the ones that are just a step below that spend every second of every day working and building themselves forward to get to that professional level. So we can ultimately say that passion and hard work are two huge components of great great.
Speaker 1:So now, well, there's a theory of practice, and I'm not talking about the kind of practice that you just wake up and go do something. I'm talking about non distracted, totally in practice, like deliberate practices, what they would consider. I've got the psychologist who did it up, but deliberate practice was the number one reason people succeeded in things. So for an athlete point of view, it's not just showing up to the practice, it's being mentally 100% in, because if you're not mentally at 100% in, you're only going to get a percentage of that practice back. So if you don't have deliberate practice, then you're never going to be able to achieve greatness. Great what's it about the component of great, getting to do hard times and this is the one I want to stick up for a little bit, seeing a brighter end. And this is where I think it's situational, and this is why I said yes and no in the beginning. So everyone has a point of something that they're passionate about, whether it's a life or death scenario, and has a war. And what do I mean by that?
Speaker 1:There was a study done with a rat and this rat had its tail pulled up to a tension board and the scientist put a piece of cheese in front of the rat, just out of reach, and wanted to see how hard that rat pulled towards that piece of cheese. Not significant, gave up after a little bit Cool. Then the scientist took that rat and took cat pheromones and sprayed it and acted like that cat was coming from behind this rat. They were wafting it in from behind. That cat pulled six to 10 times harder with that cat pheromone, with that fear to being pushed forward. Interesting. Now they put them together. They took the cheese and they took the cat pheromones and did both at the same time. That was the most significant change in pressure and that's when that rat pulled the hardest. So let's compare that.
Speaker 1:To us as individuals, there needs to be a fear component, something that's pushing you forward, something that's constantly a driver hitting you from behind, as well as the opportunity of reward. Let's relate this to business because it's the easiest example. For a lot of people, the reward of a business is whatever capacity, whether it's setting a legacy for yourself or making a lot of money, there is some kind of reward set with owning a business. That's the rewards aspect. The fear aspect is you lose it all. So maybe this is why that business owner is working 12, 13, 14-hour days and isn't as tired as the person who works a 9 to 5, 8-hour days. That person that's comfortable, getting that job, making the money, it's great and all. But that's why they don't understand why the business owner has to change everything in their life in order to achieve something that they think possible.
Speaker 1:This is where the grit comes in on having the passion of pushing forward and not understanding why this person is putting so much work into it. So, relating it back to deliberate practice. You're deliberately practicing different things. When it comes to owning a business, I need to know different operations. I need to know sales, I need to know marketing, but I can't be distracted learning these things. I need to learn how to do these things, otherwise it's over. This is why it's so much easier for somebody that is pushing forward to continue.
Speaker 1:Grit, your business is failing. It happens all the time to everybody. There's always highs and lows of businesses. What gets you to push forward? Well, you know, if you fail, it's over. There's some intimidating circumstances. Why are we just wasting all that time? Why do I really want to be disappointed to my family? Why do I really want to be disappointed in my life? There's all that fear built up behind it, but there's still that reward. If I came out today, what if I was going to hit tomorrow? I'm there, I feel like I'm there. I know I'm so close. How much further do I have to do to get there? Let's go to the gym. Example I come to the gym.
Speaker 1:People don't come to the gym just because they want to lose weight. Let me just break that balance here, right here. They want to come to the gym because there's some reason they want to lose that weight. There's some emotional reason attached to them actually saying hey, I need to show up. Maybe it was news from the doctor, maybe it was something they heard from friends, maybe it was something they heard from the city of another. There's that emotional reason of fear of failure and not wanting to be in the same situation they were before. That gets into the gym. What's the reward? The reward is that fear is going to dissipate, that outside noise is going to disappear, they're going to look better, they're going to feel better, they're going to live longer.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of rewards that keep people coming back into the gym. Interestingly enough, there's different levels of this. You take both examples the business owner and the fitness example. There's those that has to go through it and there's those that have such strong fear go even through more. The ones that have the biggest why as you could say, this is my why, this is why I'm doing what I'm doing are the ones that tend to have the greatest amount of grit and greatest amount of output when they're working towards something. So if you're getting beat up, bullied and really cool for being fat and overweight and you start working out, that's a huge stigma behind you pushing you to go forward. That's bigger than somebody saying I think it's time I lost way. To look to the mirror. The person that comes to the gym, even if they come the same amount of time in the same amount of hours a day, that is getting bullied and really couldn't really be in that bad situation any much longer. And those that need to fix something about their lives, those are the ones that are going to put a lot more output and have deliberate practice Remember we went back to deliberate practice in the gym and therefore get greater results in the long term and really have the true passion and purpose to push forward and fix everything else along their outside life.
Speaker 1:Anthony, you still haven't answered the question Is grit teachable? Simple, is it teachable If John doesn't have that stimulus to go through, doesn't have that stimulus to go further? He doesn't have that grit to continue. He just wants to give up and move on to the next thing, move on to the next bad diet, move on to the next new fitness concept that came out. He doesn't have that passion to continue and stick to that one thing and really try and give it his all. How do you teach somebody that? I think the answer is the why is not big enough. The fear stimulus is not big enough. The reward stimulus isn't big enough. They don't care or pretend not to care, that it's there. I think the fact is grit teachable, depends on how big that stimulus is, how big it's that push to move forward, how big is that reward for that person to keep pushing forward and keep continuing down a different path? That's the answer. It's situational, based upon that person's needs at that given time.
Speaker 1:Let's give personal examples Going back to middle school days. For me, the stimulus, the stimulant of negativity, of being the same individual I was back in the day being shy, being nervous around people like not taking care of myself and just being depressed get to the point I couldn't bear it anymore. There was no other option. I mean, the other option was not be alive, but that wasn't an option in my head. So what is the other option? The other option is to change. I have to change. I have to bear down and grit and push the grit forward to become that different person.
Speaker 1:Was it easy? Well, no, it was the hardest thing to date I've ever done in my life. I had to change my personality. I had to change every inch of who I am, become a different person, to change the reward of what I saw as a better solution. That's hard. There was tons of ups and downs. There was tons of times of questions making this right decision. It wasn't as much as I make you seem as oh, it was an overnight thing that I changed. It was repetition, over and over and over again, deliberate practice of switching my personality up to really become a different person, to change that reward, because I couldn't go back to where I was. I couldn't, that was it. That was where I was. I wasn't allowed to go back to that situation. I had to. I had to move forward.
Speaker 1:So I've learned through that what grit is. I've learned that I need to continually push forward. Now I've done other things in my life that I haven't had any grit towards because I didn't have to passion for it. Go back to the injury stimulus, the stimulant me getting hurt, me being better at it and me being stuck. I could no longer be that person. I could no longer say my life is over. I really knew that wasn't an option. I really knew in seventh grade I can't be that person anymore. So now I need to change. I need to push through. What's it hard with me? You see hell. No, it's been 13 freaking years and it's still hard, but it gets better and better and better and that reward is something I never want to lose. I'm going to keep chasing and keep chasing and keep chasing and keep pushing through, because there is no other option to go back. That grit of five days a week over 13 years working out that's a lot of hours, vacations, holidays Doesn't matter. I'm working out. I don't have another choice. There is no other option for me. That's it. There's no going back. There's grit. That's how I'm pushing forward Really, just to owning a business. I have the money. I don't want to be where I was.
Speaker 1:I felt like a total loser, being like okay, what do I got going on in my life. I got Anthony figured out, but I haven't figured out Anthony's financials. Anthony's reason. I fixed myself now how do I create something? Let's open a gym? Great Hop in. How did you work? Four, three in the morning to eight o'clock at night, seven days a week.
Speaker 1:There was no other option to go back. I couldn't bear to look into my parents' face and say, oh, I failed. I don't want that. I don't want to go to my girlfriend at the time who's not my wife and say I failed. Look at me. How does that make me feel there's no option of going back? I knew I had to push forward. I just got closed in 2020. It was you can give up. 25% of gym owners did give up. They closed permanently for good. It would have been okay. At that point I was told a lot I understand if you close. I understand if you just call it quits. We want that against you. That was an option Because I was hoping it against myself and I would show myself that that was it. It was over and I don't want it to be over.
Speaker 1:I knew the reward, the purpose of me doing this out with everything meant everything to me. I wanted to help millions of people and if I can't push through this hard scenario yet again and push through this, I can't help a million people. I can't. There's no, I don't know any other way of doing it. I knew this is the way. I knew how to do it. Through fitness, I could help a million people go forward. I can help show a million people there's another way. So I need to continue, because that was the reward to me to help them.
Speaker 1:So I pushed and I pushed and I pushed and it's working. But it took tons of ups and downs. It wasn't easy. People look at me and go oh, you must have an innate ability to sit there and own a business. It's so easy for you. Oh, look, it's a look, boss man's here and showed up. You don't know the hours I put in. You don't know the amount of work I put in. You don't know how many times I wanted to give up, how many times I sat there and said this is it, this is the end. I don't know how much longer I can go through, but I had to continue and I kept pushing and pushing, and pushing and pushing and eventually that worked and is working. So there's grit Now. This is situational, right, there's three scenarios.
Speaker 1:I think I learned it from a young age to be able to apply this through and showing how big the stimulus is behind and how big the reward is ahead. But how do you show others? How do you teach somebody else? This is worth doing because of this. Well, I think the reasoning is the why needs to be big enough and the reward needs to be big enough. So how do I fix the why? Let's start with the why. Why are you here? Why are you a personal trainer? Why are you a podcast host? Why do you work at IKEA Whatever, it doesn't matter. Why are you doing what you are doing? How big is that stimulus to push you forward? How do we make it bigger?
Speaker 1:I think a lot of people need to be put in a situation and not deliberately and not by any ill intent but in a situation where there's really no other option, and I mean that sincerely. You need to be so stressed out. There's no going there. I make decisions strictly because there's no backwards Step back and falling off cliff. That's it. That's how I see the stimulus. That's the why. It's there. It's big, it's a giant line attacking me. It's a giant line. It's a kind of scenario.
Speaker 1:So you have to make people uncomfortable. Maybe the way to teach is to teach people to get comfortable being uncomfortable. Maybe that's what makes it teachable. Look, if you're comfortable, you're never going to learn things. Take it a step further. This is far If you're going to learn anything from anything that said over the course of the four years of doing this, this is the thing I want you to learn and this is what, personally, what I think defines and teaches people what grit is the difference between stubbornness and grit, because that's also an important relationship. I do not think they're the same, no matter what people say. What's the difference? The difference is self reflection, looking in the mirror and not having a victim mindset.
Speaker 1:The second you give somebody else power over you by saying my life is the way it is. Because of that, no matter what that is, you lose. The game is over. Your grit gone, your passion gone, change gone. None of it's happening. I don't care, it's just not happening. I'm going to give you a life lesson. Everything is your fault. Everything that happens in your life is internally your fault. I take this with me everywhere I go and it has been the number one thing that's changed my life.
Speaker 1:Explain I'm fighting with my wife. Let's just use it as an example. We're having an argument. I don't want to say fighting, we're just having a disagreement on argument. What happens in an argument? Someone says something, disagrees with somebody or starts to elevate it. It blows up. No one ever achieves anything positive out of this.
Speaker 1:What if I blamed myself? What did I do wrong? It doesn't matter if, situationally, what triggered the argument was my fault, indirectly or not. How I reacted is 100% my fault. What could I have done differently? Maybe the argument would have been so bad if I didn't raise my voice. Maybe the argument would have been so bad if I spent more time actively listening to what my wife was saying. Maybe the argument would have been so bad if I watched my nonverbal cues. Where were my hands? How was I sitting? How was I standing? How did she perceive me through her eyes? A lot of feedback is done nonverbally. Would the argument have been different if I thought a different way? Meaning maybe I thought A was wrong, but really I see how B can influence A Different way of thought. Maybe the argument would have been so bad if I understood my wife better. There's five good ones. Now, if I fixed all of those myself, if I controlled myself, would that argument? Wouldn't even escalated? Would even happen in the first place? I don't think so.
Speaker 1:How many times recently in my own personal life as I applied this principle and the fights just disappear often Because I'm not perfect. Nobody is Nobody's perfect, and I know that. And if I can self reflect and relate this into grit, which in this example, is marriage, there's no divorce in my head. You don't marry somebody with ever the attention of divorcing them. The reward is lifelong happiness. The person that is there to you to the day you die, to death to you part the perseverance. The grit is going through those highs and lows. Now, highs are easy to get through, lows are hard to get through and that's where the grit of a relationship comes in. Stubbornness is ignoring all of those things I just said, ignoring how you were reacting in a conversation, ignoring how your wife feels in a certain situation and blaming everybody else around you and you think whatever I did is right. That stubbornness, that is not healthy, even if you don't believe in divorce and you're trying to fight through but you're being stubborn, that's going to have a negative output. That's where things go really array and you really see people that are unhappy. That's not the reward you were shooting for. If lifelong happens, grit is taking that, but blaming yourself or self-reflecting as a better word for an understanding that if I can take every situation and fix myself that ultimately, I'm on the path to that reward to have lifelong happiness inside of marriage.
Speaker 1:Relate this to your job. Why do I have this job? People's money, people's well-being, its benefits. It's the type of job Some people like fitness for example is good. If people get into enough of the money because they love helping people. That's their why you get to help people all day Fabulous Reward. I get to help millions of people. I get to make money helping people. I get to show up to work every day.
Speaker 1:Happy Grit is work easy. No, it is developing programs for every single client and we get hundreds of clients. We do about 1500 sessions a month. So 1500 times a month you have to reprogram and rechange things. Is that easy? No, that's hard. Could I do the easy way? Could I give you a cookie cutter workout Meaning I'm just kind of making things up as I go along? Could I just not care what you did last time and just put you through some workout, just say you showed up? Or could I take the time, the hard part, and push through this shitty part of the job I mean shitty, not like, oh, it's a horrible thing, but some people it's the toughest part, I would say and make every client individual to make sure they achieve greatness. That's hard for that trainer, it's hard for that manager, that owner, anyone in that fitness path or any path. It's top.
Speaker 1:But that's the self-reflection. If I do half-ass and I push through, the reward is going to be half-ass. I'm not going to get that promotion. I'm not going to stay in that job. I'm not going to hold my manager position. I'm not going to truly help a million people. I'm not. I chose the easy path inside my job. I am not going to get these rewards If I spend days and hours fixing and changing and editing and updating and making sure every person gets exactly what they came in for. Every minute is accounted for. Those clients are going to get results. They're going to get results. They're going to feel better. You've helped a million people. They're getting better. Your manager is going to notice You're getting a promotion. They're getting better. They're telling their friends. You're getting more people in the gym. There's the win. There it is.
Speaker 1:It started with the self-reflection. It's the self-reflection that is the ultimate caveat of grit by far. Is the self-reflection Deporting and blaming yourself for every single thing you do in your life? It is your fault. The second you take blame for things. The second you can fix them. You can fix how you react. You can fix yourself changing. There's so many things in your life that you can change.
Speaker 1:Let's go back to 7th grade, anthony. I was the one getting bullied. I was the one getting beat up. I was the one I can play victim. A lot of people do here. A lot of people do here. That's the fault for beating me up. It's the school system's fault. It's the government's fault. It's the way they were raised. It's not me.
Speaker 1:What did I do? What did I do to deserve this? What did I do to get all of this? My teachers, my counselors, my therapists everyone's telling me it's their fault. It's their fault. It's not my fault, I'm a good person. You've never changed. You've never pushed forward. You've never achieved. Now you're stuck in that victim mindset for the rest of your life and you're never going to achieve anything based upon everything we just spoke about. You're never going to be able to look at the mirror and say it is your fault. You know what it is. It is your fault.
Speaker 1:You can act. You can respond differently. You can act differently. You can change the scenarios you're in. You can change those people? Have you ever had a conversation with them? No, why. There are things you could do in that situation that are your fault, and stop blaming others that it's entirely your fault. So change it and move forward.
Speaker 1:Everything is your fault, everything, and this is the hardest thing a lot of people are hearing and I know I'm getting myself a lot, but it is. We need to drive it home. So is it teachable? Yes, but it is only teachable with the understanding that you need to have the capability to reflect on yourself and reflect on your understanding that you need to be the one that has changed, to push forward. You need to have passion. If you don't have passion for something, you're never, ever, ever, ever, ever going to have the grit to push forward. You need to have some sense of perseverance. You need to know that when you get through, it's going to be okay, or the ability to get through this is going to build, and doing all these things over and over and over and over and over again is going to help.
Speaker 1:You need to have deliberate practice. We've said this earlier. You need to deliberately try to be better, not have ass deliberate those times that three hours goes by and you're like oh my God, I just learned one sentence. I didn't even know my phone went off 400 times. I didn't know that my dog was barking. I was so into that. You're deliberately practicing. They're hard to get through, but you're pushing through. You do that. You can teach grit If you're feel like you're that kind of person that doesn't know how to put themselves In a situation where they feel it they have to move forward.
Speaker 1:Start small Spartan races or things, or have marathons, things. If I said right now, don't run and they don't work out, I don't care, go, that's how you're gonna build it. But you can't quit. You have to make it to the end. You want to start building? Great, there's me with a start. You can't quit. There is no quitting. I've never trained. I can't move. I blow up my knee Doesn't matter. You're finishing this. You're making, you're making it through that little push.
Speaker 1:This is why do these races? I don't train. I'm not these athletes. That's going through like that he made, but I'm gonna work my ass off to make sure I get through and I am not quitting. I'm not being that person that's gonna go home back to all my clients. Good, your trainer quit May to make it through. I'm not doing that. I'm signing up for things. I'm signing myself up for things that are constantly Showing that I had the passion, the perseverance and the capability of achieving it.
Speaker 1:I started small. You can start small. Just start small and do something now. Do something you don't think you can do, that you know you need to do. Make sure that reward is great. Make sure that the stimulant behind you is great. Whatever that negativity behind you is a capability of pushing you forward.
Speaker 1:You start small with something that you don't think you could do and you accomplish it. You're gonna start compounding on that great and it's gonna compound quickly and you're going to learn it and learn it and reinforce that cycle. That cycle is gonna constantly reinforce, so it's gonna be a bigger one, bigger, bigger, bigger. Before you know it, you're doing things you never even thought possible. You're just looking at yourself one day and going, shit, I'm gonna go spend half a million dollars, started business with no money to my name, nothing about the industry, but I know I need to do this because my passion is so great towards this. I know this is where I need to be able to quit my job. I'm doing it. I'm going by and and you're gonna get into that situation. It's gonna freakin suck, and it's gonna suck for a long time. It's gonna suck for not days, not weeks, but years and years and you're gonna question yourself every single day, why did I do this? But then you're gonna think back to that time. He said I built enough grit, I built enough passion, I know I can do this and I'm gonna keep pushing forward and eventually it's gonna click and eventually You're gonna get to where you need to go, leaving it there. Let me know what you guys thought.
Speaker 1:Thank you for those that did watch this live. I Love this topic. I think this is something that everyone needs to hear. I can't stress that enough. So please go ahead if you're listening, like comment share. Let's get the word out. We need to stop living in a victim mentality. It is not creating those with enough grit, it is not creating those with some passion, is not creating those enough perseverance and it is especially not helping with self-reflection. Let's change Lives. Thank you guys for listening. This week's episode of health to fitness redefined. Don't forget fitness and medicine until next time you.