This is NOT a Negotiation: Stop Letting Yourself Off the Hook, and Start Achieving Your Goals

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You’re very persuasive. You may not think so, but you are. You have this uncanny ability to reduce your targets, to make yourself feel better for taking it a little bit easy today, and to quit when the real “suck” starts to set in.

And you know what? I used to be awfully persuasive too. I’ve let myself down too many times to count, and I effing hated it every single time.

I’m never going back there, and for you, it stops today.

It straight-up just feels awful to break a promise to yourself, to leave the gym — or work, or the field, or any situation you find yourself in where you care about the outcome — knowing that you’ve left some of your potential on the table. That you could have done more.

These days, I hate giving up on myself and letting myself down — I hate it so much that I refuse to do it. Ever.

I don’t tell myself that it’s okay to skip this last set because “my workout’s running a bit long and I should really get home.”

I don’t tell myself that I’ll read fewer pages today because “I‘m a little bit tired today - I’ll make it up tomorrow with extra studying.”