…the late great Mohammad Ali didn’t count his sit-ups until he got sore. From then on, that’s where the reps get important.
You see, a muscle doesn’t grow unless it’s stressed past its point of exhaustion. It’s only then that growth is fired up to make sure it’s ready for that load the next time.
So in other words, if you only ever do ten bicep curls, that’s as big as your muscle will ever grow. – But push it past that into the eleven, twelve and thirteen rep area, and the magic happens.
We’re no different than that bicep.
Do the same work, the same way, for the same amount of time and we stay the same. – We don’t grow.
But toss in something new, like working longer, smarter, or getting outside our comfort zone and we grow. – We produce more work, our confidence grows, and the results we get changes.
It’s easy to get lazy. It’s easy to do the bare minimum. It’s easy to copy the others around us. But when we do, we can’t complain about the results that we get. – There’s no chance of growth there.
But when you force yourself to do one more rep. One more email, one more page of fiction, one more video, one more podcast episode, we move into the growth area.
That’s when the magic happens.
That’s when we create more, get better at what we do, and move ahead of those around us.
Is that hard to do? – In the beginning, probably.
It’s going to take more effort, more time, and more discomfort.
But do it long enough and you’ll grow into that new position and it’ll seem like you’ve always been that way.
Growth only happens when you put in more effort.
Growth only happens when you give it more than you’re giving it right now.
And growth only happens on those one or two reps you do beyond your capability.
That’s when you’ll see the magic happening.
Growth involves growth.
Because you can’t have a bigger life or business with a smaller version of yourself.
One more rep. – That’s all you need to give it.
