What goes through my mind?
People email me and wonder how I stay motivated now that I have achieved some level of success in the bodybuilding industry. It is one thing to be motivated enough to chase your dream, but once you catch it, then what? Do you just adapt or do you find a new dream?
I think the answer is rather obvious. You either find a new dream to catch or if you are like me, you change your dream to a higher level. I wanted to leave a little thumbprint on this sport that has done so much to improve not only the quantity of my life, but the QUALITY of it. After 15 articles, three interviews, a radio appearance, and a hit internet video series, I think my thumbprint is there.
Now I want it to be a footprint. And chances are after that, I want it to be a landmark. I want to go down as one of the most impactful names in the game. I want to be known as the guy that helped millions of people change their lives for the better. I want to know that the world is a little better place because I did something important.
So what goes through my mind now to help me get to that point? I think about the fact that in a small way, I represent two magazines that took a chance on someone that was unproven. I want to make it worth their while. I think about the fact that that camera is on me and whoever watches it might be inspired by something that is captured on film.
I think about the fact that in a small way, I represent the biggest bodybuilding website on the face of the planet. Over 300,000 people a day and 2 million plus hits a week see what I am doing. What I do today makes either a positive impact on it or a negative one and I better make the right choice.
Most importantly, I think about the fact that in some office or on some laptop in anywhere from New York to London to Australia to right here in my hometown of Lewisburg, WV and at any and all points in between, someone is looking at my profile or at my blog or something that I am doing and there is a chance that I could inspire that person to do what I am doing. I call myself a World Champion for that reason. People around the world are inspired by what I do. Therefore, I champion their cause to change their lives for the better. If I give ANYTHING LESS than 100% effort into this, I am doing that person a miscarriage of justice.
Today I MUST give all that there is to give to this sport, because when you are a part of the greatest sport of them all, it calls for that and that only. All that there is to give.
That is what goes through my mind now. What goes through yours?
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