From The Desk of Maverick Brenton.
Subject: Handling Bad Days.
Gentlemen, would you like to know something useful?
Something that will help you get better?
Something that will make you stronger?
Something that I wish I knew a long time ago.
Here it is:
The Bad Days are inevitable.
The Bad Days are guaranteed.
The Bad Days are part of the game.
The Bad Days are the ONLY days that matter.
The Bad Days are the days where you find out if you really want it.
If you are trying to feel motivated and positive every single day of the week, I have some BAD news for you – it isn’t going to happen because life does not work that way.
You will have days where you are tired, lazy and don’t want to do anything.
You will have days where you want to stay in bed and cuddle up to your girlfriend, putting off the work that needs to be done to move your life forward.
You will have days where you doubt yourself and have no idea why you are doing what you’re doing.
There will be days where everything seems to be going wrong and nothing wants to work.
THIS IS LIFE.
This is a part of the game.
When I was younger, if I had a bad day, I used to completely overthink it and throw my hands in the air like it was the end of the world.
Instead of just accepting that I had a bad day, I would think everything was bad, because I had the wrong attitude.
Attitude is the key!
You can’t avoid bad days and you shouldn’t try to avoid them either.
Why?
Bad days are the only days that matter because they are the days when you ACTUALLY get better.
When you don’t feel like getting out of bed to train but you do it anyway – you get stronger.
When you don’t feel like sitting down to do the work but you do it anyway – you get better.
When you don’t feel like sticking to your diet but you do it anyway – you get healthier.
When you don’t want to do, what you know you need to do, but you get it done – you build discipline, you build momentum and you get BETTER.
You don’t get better on the good days boy.
The good days are easy and they are a reward for pushing through the bad days.
The bad days are the test.
They are the days sent to see what you are really made of.
To see if you really want it.
To see if you are just a pretender, because most people are just pretenders.
When they are motivated, they are going to conquer the world.
When that motivation is gone – they have nothing.
They have no discipline.
They have no grit.
They have no REAL reason to succeed and do the work.
So, they fail.
Motivation is a lot like jerking off.
It feels good for a very short time, until reality sets in.
The reality that you are no better, you are still a loser and you still haven’t changed anything.
You haven’t changed anything because motivation does not change anything.
It’s a fucking fantasy inside your mind of how great everything could be.
You change that “could be” to a “will be” through one thing – DISCIPLINE.
Discipline changes everything.
When the bad days come and they sure as hell will come – you hold the line against the temptation to be lazy and you do the damn work.
Not only do you do the damn work, but you do it even better than you would on a good day.
THIS is what makes you better.
THIS is real self-improvement.
Self-improvement does not come from reading a book.
Self-improvement does not come through watching a motivational video.
Self-improvement comes from pain.
All improvement comes from pain.
Pain is what makes you better.
Real improvement is not pretty.
It’s not glamorous, it’s fucking ugly.
It’s being in the trenches, covered in mud and blood with bullets flying over your head.
It’s being under the cold steel of the barbell, while the rest of the world sleeps, doing what you don’t want to do, but need to do.
It’s bleeding out the weakness within you.
It hurts.
If you think life is meant to be amazing every single day, you need to remove this idea from your mind with a scalpel.
Life is the complete opposite.
In reality, life consists of nothing but problems to be solved and this is NOT a bad thing because without these problems, you would have no meaning.
In reality, you are going to have more bad days than good days.
Even if you do what you love more than anything in the world, you will still have days where you are not feeling it - w_here you want to quit._
We cannot exist in a state of complete and utter fucking bliss every waking minute of our life because human beings don’t work that way, despite what all the pot smoking hippies tell themselves.
We need adversity, we need problems and we need to solve those problems to feel good.
A meaningful life does not come from comfort, ease and luxury – this often makes people miserable when it is all they are exposed to.
The truth is, a meaningful life comes from pain.
We need to feel pain.
As humans we are constantly up and down, bored and blue, happy and sad – this is completely normal.
The real key is learning to feel your emotions and accept how you are feeling instead of judging yourself for it.
Don’t judge yourself for feeling down because this does not solve the problem.
Instead, accept the fact that you are a human being with emotions and you are not a machine.
Just BE IN IT.
Then shut it down and do the fucking work that needs to be done!
How you feel is irrelevant – get your work done.
In your life, shit is going to go wrong.
Things will suck sometimes.
That is just how it is.
Your ability to stay focused on the bad days and push through will determine where you end up in life.
Bad days are a gift.
Bad days are a test.
A test that is sent by destiny, to see if you are serious about winning.
Bad days are the only days that matter.
So, when the next one comes around, get out of bed and get after it.
If you don’t get up and get after it, you will lose the battle.
Lose enough battles and you will lose the war.
You don’t want to lose the war, trust me.
Until Next Time.
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