Keep your goal vivid in your mind. Print a photo of the outcome and look at it daily. Surround yourself with people chasing the same thing, watch related documentaries, and attend competitions to see peers in action.
What do you think is probably the biggest key to staying motivated? Stay motivated for the length of the weeks? Yeah, like this goal we've got, we've got somewhere between 6 and 18 months. What do you think is going to be the key in order to stay motivated during that time?
The biggest thing to stay motivated is going to be the goal, pretty much. And I always tell, you know, imagine in your head how you want to look. You know, you got to have a picture in your head how you want to look. Everybody does. Every time I've done a show and everybody else that I've coached, I said, imagine the look you want to have. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Or even take a picture or something that you find somewhere that looks similar to the way you want to look and put it up there. Put it somewhere you can see it. Really? You know? And then what you want to do is constantly remind yourself, until I get to this, I'm not stopping. I'm not happy. You know, I'm not happy. And it's not even that you're happy. It doesn't have to concern consume your life, but nobody wants to fail with their goal, or nobody wants to fail, period. And not achieving your goal is some kind of failure, I think, for people, you know. So, and, you know, I found reading magazines, watching movies, weightlifting movies or bodybuilding movies helps a lot too. Really? Going to competitions, like, you know, every time I go to a bodybuilding competition and watch other people out there, I get that, and it bugs me. Oh, I want to do it. But I've looked at it on the websites where it's all about that. It's like almost if you want to race cars, in order to do that or be involved in it, you've got to be friends or hang out with people that do the same thing. So you're constantly comparing your cars or whatever it happens to be. What about—
