Do you know, if you study,
yeah so, if you study people who are at the pinnacle of anything,
you'll recognize that to get there, motivation was maybe 1% of the formula, maybe.
1%. And I'll prove it to you.
If you wanna become a world-class bodybuilder, say an IFBB pro.
What that takes is you have to train twice a day,
six days a week. You have to have eight meals a day.
Your calorie intake is regimented. Your meals are pre-planned and pre-cooked.
You don't eat according to taste, you eat according to function.
So, my trainer for instance will eat and I'll go, "what are you eating?"
And he's having the most, he'll have chicken that was boiled without salt
and he'll have like half a kilo of it. "What are you doing?"
Says, "I'm taking in protein." He doesn't say "I'm eating," he says,
"I'm taking in protein." For him it's functional, it's not taste based.
Then, you will probably have to train for a minimum, and this is if you are a genetic phenom,
you would have to train for a minimum of 10 years before you could get on a stage
and compete at an average level with an average global bodybuilder. Average!
So, why am I telling you this?
All of us here, at the beginning of a new year, write these things called new year's resolutions.
And then it, "New Year's Resolution #1 - Make More Money,"
"#2 - Change my Boyfriend," #3 - Get Into Shape."
Number three, getting into shape is somewhere in the top three.
So what do you do? You go to the gym, you get a gym membership.
You buy, you go to the local Nike store and you buy all of your gym gear.
You are motivated, you are inspired, you are going to the damn gym.
You go to Youtube, you subscribe to all of the fitness channels.
You go to Instagram, you follow all of the fitness models.
You are motivated, you are going to the damn gym. You're gonna get in shape,
that's what you're gonna do. The people you're following
on Youtube have been working out for a minimum of five years to look like that.
So, you have the incorrect understanding that after a month
of working out you're gonna look like them. So what happens in the first month? You're
excited you go to the gym every single month. And you take the pains and your body is sore,
but you know, I'm excited, I'm going to the gym, then life happens.
The company doesn't make money. You don't make your targets. You fall a bit ill.
Something happens. And all of a sudden, you stop going to the gym
for a day, a day becomes two, two becomes a week. Now all of a sudden, you've had a gym membership
for three months and you haven't been in that time.
What did you miss? You thought motivation was the formula.
Winners don't need motivation, winners need discipline.
Discipline is about getting it done cause it needs to get done. Not cause I feel like it.
Not cause I'm motivated for it.
You think Nelson Mandela was motivated to spend 27 years in prison?
You think Martin Luther King was motivated to march across the states and proclaim freedom?
If you look at people that change the world, they're not doing it because they're motivated,
they're doing it because they made a commitment to do it and they disciplined to see it through.
Discipline is far more important than motivation.
Which is why you gotta be careful the decisions you make,
cause once you make the decision, you have to see that decision through.
Like my mentor says, "first we make the decisions, then the decisions make us."
So you gotta be very careful the decisions you make, very careful the commitments you make.
Motivation, I'm telling you now, is completely overrated.
It's important, don't get me wrong. We meet according to motivation,
we feel good, roar roar! But that'll fade.
You need a stronger will and a deeper commitment to see things through.