You need to lock in.

Oh, dude, fuck. Sometimes you don't know what you have until you fucking lose it. Last, it was either last summer, no, no, no, the summer before, yeah, so two summers ago, I completely fucking slashed my thumb pad with a knife. I was employing improper cutting techniques, but, dude, I was fucking pissed. Like, I was literally losing my fucking mind. And I wasn't thinking, oh, crap, this hurts. My immediate thought was, fuck, how the fuck am I gonna lift? That's what I was really fucking pissed about. So don't let that shit, don't let the fact that you can wake up every fucking morning, move your legs, jump out of bed, do your shit, and have no fucking problems, don't just take that for granted, man. There's a lot of people who'd be dying to be in your shoes. Yeah. You're young, you're 17, 18, 19, 20, bro. These are the years where you need to put in the work, you need to grind, and you don't need to be focused on everybody else because you staying focused on everybody else, you staying focused on the world is giving you a false sense of reality. Like, sometimes you just need to unplug, you just need to disappear, and you just need to focus on yourself. That's something I wish somebody would've told me, bro, because when I was a kid, I was always trying to fit in, bro. I was always trying to impress other people, you know, I had to get the new J's, I had to be fresh as fuck. I realized that I was doing all these things for the wrong reason. At the end of the day, I wish somebody would've just told me that nobody fucking cares. Everyone has a pretty solid amount of fucking potential, gym-wise, like muscle growth-wise. You know, some people are gonna have crazier genetics than others. Obviously, that's a fucking given. But the median, after a period of time, I think anybody can get fucking jacked, you know? But if half of the people don't really enjoy working out at all, and it's like, it's a real chore, they don't enjoy it, they're fucking like, they don't, I mean, some people just don't even see it. Like, they can't really connect with it when they're working out. They don't feel like they're going hard and pushing it. They feel like, oh, I'm so sweaty, I'm so tired, oh, this sucks, this hurts. I mean, some people, they just can't connect with the lift, man, which sucks for them, unfortunately. But if they were to be able to really enjoy it, I mean, it would make sense, you know? Let's think about this scenario. If you worked out hard as fuck, consistently every week, you know, maybe you take a rest day or two, whatever. If you do that for four years straight, and you get your diet on a reasonable point to the point where you're making progress and you sleep pretty well, are you gonna be jacked? I think if you actually pushed it every workout, and you did it consistently, I think, yes. I think if you put anybody through serious workout programs, bodybuilding style, like we're all doing, for a few fucking years, I think anybody can fucking do it, you know? But the fact that people don't really enjoy it and it feels like a chore, or they're like, oh, dude, that's fucking, that's way too much time. I think that's the biggest sort of thing turning people away, is just the fact that it's kind of a fucking long-term commitment. This body, as great as you are, as sharp as you make the arsenal, it can't do anything. If you don't have confidence in yourself, we all fall down in life. The question is, who gets back up? You go after it, and you give it all you have. If you lose, at least you tried, man. I failed. It's 10 times more of a man than someone said, what if? Because what if never went to the arena? When you guys find a fear, that fear will either create you or destroy you. I love fear, and the reason why, behind every fear is a person you want to be. Fear is self-imposed, meaning it doesn't exist. You create it, you can destroy it, too. It's an intangible. If you face your fears, guys, you will realize it's not that big. And once you face it, you go, oh my God, man, I've spent all this time running from it. It was so small. If I just faced it, my God, not only did I face it and I beat it back, energy's never lost, transferred. That negative energy, that fear, is destroyed. It comes back and it's confidence. You're like, what else am I capable of? What else am I holding my back from that I'm capable of more? What am I running from when I don't need to? What else can I overcome?