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