Brick By Brick

Brick by brick.

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An expression that means that success and achievement is something that is built one step at a time.

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There are a million other ways people phrase this.

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The iceberg is another good example. There is the 5-10% of what people see (success and achievement), and there is what people do not see. Then there is the 90-95% that people don't see. This is where all the hard work lies.

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Success is not an accident. It is intentional work and action taken that leads to it. 

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Fitness and health is such a great example of this because the results will always show themselves when people put in the work. 

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Someone who trains for a stronger deadlift, WILL achieve a stronger deadlift.

Someone who trains to lose weight, WILL lose weight. (This one admittedly is the hardest).

Someone who trains to run a marathon, WILL run the marathon.

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The amount of success in achieving these goals is 100% correlated with the amount of effort.

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If you put in all the effort to eat clean, count calories, meal timing, and workout; you will lose weight. It is not easy. 

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The troubling part about all of it is that fact that most of the work, struggle, and yes, success goes unnoticed. 

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No one sees you meal prepping. No one sees you order a salad out to dinner for the 15th time. No one sees you putting in the effort at the gym. And no one sees the progress you make month to month.

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If we are completely honest with ourselves, the greatest part about losing weight is that we feel better about our health and ourselves. The second greatest part though, is when someone say , “Hey, Nate you’re looking great! Have you dropped some LBs.” Why yes I have thank you very much:)

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Okay, why am I talking about this. We all know that these things take hard work.

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The main reason I am talking about this is because I need to talk myself into my own goals. I am also talking about it because there is so much more that goes into it that just hard work.

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Consistency.

Mental Fortitude.

Resiliency.

Ability to say NO.

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These 4 things are easily just as important as hard work.

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Tune in next time for the breakdown of each!

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Yours in strength,

Nate

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