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We require adversity in life to reach our greatest potential, but for many of us adversity is not met with the right fortitude and discipline that’s required to benefit from it. To reach your potential, you must choose adversity with a keen sense of strategy – not recklessness and despair. Embrace inevitable hardships with the deep stare of conviction and the willingness it takes to get through it and improve. You can find plenty of voluntary adversity through fitness. The on-going discomfort, the all-encompassing fatigue and the minor to major injuries that come through striving – it’s all there in fitness. Practice voluntary adversity through fitness and you can achieve personal improvement and the capacity to deal with unvolitional adversity outside of fitness as well.

We hear this word “self-esteem” thrown around a lot, and most claim they have it and in high degrees, but unless you’re living a life with little discrepancy between your ideal-self and your actual behavior, you’re more than likely low in self-esteem. What you want to be in life, and who you are, should be closely intertwined when living with high self-esteem. In fact, high self-esteem will pull your personal ideals and actual daily reality closer and closer together over an extended period of time through aligned behavior; you create high self-esteem through your consistent daily actions. Who you are and what you want to be are pulled closer and closer together when high self-esteem is present.

There’s nothing but superficial pleasure in daily self-gratification. So, to live a life worth living and later remembering at its conclusion… competence and challenge are necessary in life. Go after self-improvement vigourously… and general-well-being, happiness and fulfillment will be yours at the other end.

My personal success in fitness is not necessarily what you deem correct or necessary. The way that I define success for me, is based on my own personal experiences, genetics and interpretations of what value a particular fitness goal and fitness level has in my life. Your success needs to be based on similar personal criteria. See it, define it, work towards it and then grab it! Success is relative… what does your 100% look like?

The chance of something unexpected, important or urgent rearing its ugly head when you’re scheduled to exercise is to be expected. So you shouldn’t be surprised when it happens. If you set the time to exercise, keep the time to exercise and get the job done – no excuses. Life will still be waiting for you when you get done with your workout and you’ll be better prepared to deal with it.

Courage is not necessarily a single act, rather, it’s more broadly defined by a lifetime of correct actions, even under difficult circumstances. Many spend their whole lives not knowing if they have significant courage. Physical fitness provides a benign and relatively safe venue to test yourself at the deepest level physically, as well as emotionally. What a great opportunity!

If I were to wish for anything… I would not wish for wealth or power but for the intense energy and passion that comes from a high level of fitness. There’s nothing I would rather have personally, than my good health and the deep vitality that comes from its possession.

Losing weight and getting fit is hard work and you’re going to be uncomfortable with hunger pangs, sore muscles and fatigue at times. But do you know the difference between pain and suffering? Your perception of the experience… that’s it. Being uncomfortable is only suffering if you think about it in this negative way. Embrace the conditions and make all that hard work a sense of pride, satisfaction and accomplishment.

Successful people of all stripes, distinguish themselves by doing, suffering through, and sacrificing all those things that less successful people are not willing to. Unless one gets extremely lucky… you have to pay the price if you want the results that go with a big-goal met. That’s what makes the price so high and the results so worth while.

Through a consistent and progressive fitness program you can gain confidence by preparing and then hitting your training goals, while gaining support and friendship with quality people, with similar interests. By taking on the adverse conditions found through consistent training, you will gain a sense of self that cannot be bought or found anywhere else.