How To Stay Motivated

When I first got into lifting weights

I couldn’t stay motivated at all

I made sure my lifting routine

And nutrition were pretty much perfect

But I couldn’t understand why I wasn’t progressing

I would lift my personal record one week

Then perfectly stick to my routine and nutrition

And I would come back one or two weeks later and guess what

Lift the same weight or even less

This literally discouraged me to a point

Where often I would completely

Disregard the gym for a few weeks

Because I felt like I needed to change everything

About my diet and routine

And then I read Mastery by George Leonard

One of my biggest role models and a person

Who knew a thing or two about Mastery

And he said, look, the reason you feel that way

Is because of what you’ve been taught

My mommy told me, hey, just work hard

You’ll get better and better every day

And I bought into that so the mastery curve

In my head looked like this

I thought over time, I would see constant progress

And Leonard said, that’s the stupidest

Most unrealistic thing you could expect on your path

Your path is actually going to look something like this

And here you have the most important idea of a plateau

Most of your journey on your path to mastery

Is spent on that plateau

And it is after dedicated time on this plateau

That you see progress and possibly

Even slight regress afterwards

But the big idea is that the new plateau is higher

Than your previous one

And that is how real growth happens

So I’ve literally used this idea with everything

Ever since I first read Leonard

Do you think I look at how my channel is doing today

Compared to yesterday or a week ago?

Why, why would I do that?

I look at is my routine and nutrition optimized

Or in this case, am I offering as much value

As I possibly can and am I constantly trying

To improve my content for my viewers?

And the answer is yes

So there is no reason for me to lose motivation

When my channel isn’t doing better than it was

I don’t know, yesterday or a week ago

Because I know that in six months my channel

Will be kicking ass compared to today

And I will be on yet another plateau

Diligently putting in the work to get to the next one