Training and bodybuilding are like life. Not everyone is going to understand your motivation. Some people are going to think that wanting to get big is stupid. It’s also likely that at some point you’re going to be accused of having bad values because you are paying so much attention to lifting. To your body. To yourself. You may even be accused of being narcissistic and selfish.

But we all know what they say about opinions. Everybody has one. And I have a choice about how much attention I pay to what other people say and how much energy I give to their words.

We workout because we want to workout and we love the results. We love to see what it does for our bodies and how it feels to experience out bodies change. We love the benefits. We love how people treat us differently. We love how we feel different moving through the world.

The more I learn to be able to let the opinions of others roll off and the less dependent I am on the approval of other people to feel good, the happier I am going to be. I need to stay focused. I need to know what my VISION is. I need to stick to my PLAN OF ACTION. Above all else, I have a job to do and I need to get it done.

Today, I will be RELENTLESS about my mission and I won’t let the opinion of anyone else get in my way!