Commit To Yourself

It always comes down to faith

It’s called ‘self-belief’ for a good reason team, it’s not called ‘self-certainty’ either.

When you decide to start living a life based on your values instead of catering to the demands and expectations of the crowd you’re going to be lonely.

Here’s what else you get; doubters. LOTS OF THEM.

People will question you.

• “Why are you doing this?”

• “Most people don’t make these decisions”

• “Why do you think it will be different for you?”

• “Aren’t you afraid of things not working out well?”

And worse, the more you try to ‘rationalize’ your conviction the more they fight back against your desires.

You’re trying to use your heart to persuade their minds. And they’ve already made them up about you and your new aim.

Don’t despair. Instead HAVE FAITH.

Living by values requires it more than living by expediency anyways, better get real comfortable with letting the faith in yourself override the objective concerns of those who ‘just want to protect you from yourself.’

Remember, it’s ‘self-belief’

Release the need for ‘certainty’

Want to know why the doubters turn to haters when you reject their negative frame? Because you’ve just placed a powerful mirror right back onto that person’s own lack of self-belief.

They are too afraid to release the ‘need to know’ and the comfort it brings.

That’s the exact frame you reject. It’s why self-belief and faith now loom larger.

Living by values is really living by humility.

• Accepting you don’t know it all.

• Accepting you can’t predict the future.

• Accepting your responsibility in things going wrong.

• Accepting your power and agency to grow and learn through mistakes.

Instead of certainty, you have faith in it’s place.

There’s a gap in knowledge that must be filled with belief that you are capable of finding a solution through any adversity, and through that process you become more authentic to yourself.

If only there was a way to embody this as you went, so that the whole journey isn’t subject to faith alone.

You need acts as well, for salvation after all.

Do things to know yourself

If you must rely more on self-belief when living by values, where do you go to fill up that tank?

You need to live in a way that consistently makes you a believer in your capacity to take on responsibility, adapt to changing circumstances, remain optimistic in the face of shifting adversity, and resolved to take on whatever pain is required to get the job done.

Sounds a lot like athletic training to me.

Here’s why it’s the perfect way to ‘know yourself’ and to generate that almost delusional self belief required to keep saying ‘I’ll show you’ to all the doubters.

Humility: Nothing keeps you honest to your own limits better than physical exercise. You just can’t lift all the weight, not possible to go any faster, tapped out when the pain got too much. You get your ego beaten down. But in a way that makes you hungry to get better, improve, and raise your own standards.

Achievement: You work hard, you struggle, and then you BREAKTHROUGH. There’s a personal record here, a new technique learned there, and throughout the journey you keep touching heights you didn’t believe you’d reach. But here you are, and you’ve done the work to EARN IT.

Values: The combination of humility and achievement clarifies your values. It forces you to choose what to sacrifice in order to keep progressing towards your goals. It highlights the things that matter most to you, that mean the most, and makes it easier to have faith to keep moving towards that better version of yourself, the on that doesn’t give in to expediency and demands to live by a higher value.

• You need faith.

• You need acts

• You need a process.

• You need an activity.

Physical Training is the fountain that feeds them all.

So if you desire a life outside the normal, set apart from the mundane, one of meaning, beauty, and purpose you must begin that journey from a solid foundation of self understanding.

Find it in athletics. Train from your heart. Get stronger in courage. LIVE FREE.

Happy Training Friends