We constantly make the mistake of looking to big personalities for inspiration and motivation rather than the people around us.
There is this person at my gym who will be there at 0530 AM every single day. I was simply curious to know what his schedule looked like and asked him.
He said he wakes up at 0430 AM and will be at the gym at 0530 (be there for 1 hour), go home, get ready, make his breakfast, and start to his workplace at 0830, which is a 60KM ride to his office on his bike, and again, a 60KM ride back home at 0700 PM, prepare his dinner, and go back to bed at 10.
Here I am, my mother is preparing the food, I work from home between 9 and 5, and I am struggling to get out of bed on this cold morning and deciding whether to go to the gym or not today, which is just 1 km away...
If I considered my personal favorites Arnold Schwarzenegger and Chris Bumstead as gym motivation, these big personalities could only keep me going for one or two weeks.
Taking extreme people as your inspiration/motivation will not help you in the long run, because their results are also extreme.
The more extreme their outcomes, the less likely it is that you will be able to apply those lessons in your own life…
But I see this person at the gym every day when I enter, who will be crunching his abs harder to make some progress...
My motivation automatically boosts up whenever I see him. I tell myself that if he can do it, I shouldn't complain about getting up early or going to the gym.
The point is, don't look for famous people to motivate you. We're simply not paying attention to those around us.
Takeaways from mediocre people around you are more relevant than extreme people you haven't seen in your life.
Until next time,
Peranesh 🍀
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