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    What REALLY Drives You? – Hopefully, everyone is motivated to train because it's a rewarding, life-extending, life-expanding experience. But if we really look at the behaviors and habits of successful people, we often find something very different: they're motivated because of some very negative thoughts.
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    Some may have been bullied in school, and their desire to succeed may be rooted in sticking it to those jerks from 8th grade. Others may be driven by a sense of guilt or even fear. And when it comes to success in the gym? Well, maybe all those people with great bodies and impressive PRs are driven by negatives as well.
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    That guy who hates that he's short may have decided that he'll just be wider and stronger than everyone who ever teased him about his height. That woman who thinks she's unattractive? Well, she can't change her face much but she can damn sure change her body. That drives her. And her ex can suck it. That guy who never misses cardio? Maybe he hates it, but he watched a parent die too young of heart disease, and he doesn't want his kids to experience that.
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    For those who've been fat in the past, there's no greater motivator than not wanting to get fat again. They've experienced the effects of being overweight: feeling bad, being socially invisible, being chosen last in sports, being humiliated taking off their shirts at the pool... And by God, they're NOT going back there.
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    These unpleasant feelings motivate us. And while there's probably a better, more positive way to stay motivated, these negative motivators sure do work. They are the internal alarm clocks that get us out of bed in the morning. Ideally, these ugly motivators are transitional – you use them for a while until the positive stuff becomes the primary reinforcement, until the good habits solidify, until you do it for joy. Hopefully, getting your workout becomes an act of love, a reward rather the temporary tamping down of a fear.
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    But if not, screw it. If there are demons riding around on your back and whispering things in your ear, squat those bastards. —
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    Self loathing.
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    cannot stand a whinner.
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    huh?
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    If you think that the main factor for everyone bodybuilding or weightlifting isnt they hate that they arent bigger or stronger and talk shit to themselves in their head, you're in denial. If you think the reason they start isn't bc they feel too small, too weak, too fat you're insane.
    That's not whining good sir, that's truth telling bc I don't give a shit to tell the truth in a world full of ppl full of shit that are too scared to admit their own personal faults.

    I've broken shit on my body and had multiple surgeries bc my body broke before my mind, so I hope that's not directed at me.
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    NO WAY was that directed at you my friend. I had a person that I met that had an excuse for everything. They had no drive or back bone and had all of these reason that hey couldn't do this or that. That was what I was talking about.

    Your a beast brother. Keep up the good work.

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    NO WAY was that directed at you my friend. I had a person that I met that had an excuse for everything. They had no drive or back bone and had all of these reason that hey couldn't do this or that. That was what I was talking about.

    Your a beast brother. Keep up the good work.
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