You want results?

I have a friend named Jeff.

He's the guy in the photo for this blog.

I met Jeff at my last Gym. He came in, we sat down and had a talk about what he was looking to do.

We aren't a gym where you just sign up online and begin coming. We aren't a gym where you call us up and say you want to join, and you begin.

We want to talk first.

We want to know that we can help you and we want to know you are a good fit for us also.

It is a two-way relationship.

It is not an exchange of you giving us money and us giving you a space to workout.

Back to Jeff...

Jeff laid out a list of goals. I could tell he was ready for something to change in his life.

It takes a desire for change for this to become anything worth doing.

To make this story shorter than the novel I could write...

Jeff began showing up immediately.

Here is where I want to talk about the PROCESS VS RESULTS.

Jeff embraced the process.

Without this perspective, creating any sustainable habit that yields any result/goal we may be looking for... is damn near impossible.

If we are purely results driven, we will never create enjoyment or fulfillment in the process.

Jeff began showing up to a 6am class 5 days a week.

He also runs a construction company full time. Owning a business is beyond full time, and yet he still decided to make the time every single day to get to the gym. You can imagine a job like construction and a job like owning a company like that could give any person every reason to NOT find the time.

Yet... he did.

A year later... after many results and new goals set in place... Jeff continued.

Again... He embraced the process.

This practice of going to the gym turned into a habit. It turned into something that was part of his routine, part of his life. He showed up tired, he showed up sore, he showed up with nagging pains.

WHAT IS OUT OF YOUR CONTROL?

Results are.

We can put in all the work we can on any given goal we have, and still not reach that exact result we had in mind.

This doesn't discount our process. We aren't promised a win.

WHAT IS IN YOUR CONTROL?

The process is.

Regardless of the outcome, we can continue the work. Along this journey new paths may present themselves. New "results" may come. Results that may be things we didn't even know could come when we started.

Without that process, we limit ourselves to one way of thinking about the results (that are out of our control) and we can view not reaching those things as a failure and a reason to quit.

Anything worthy of doing must require a process. If we position our lens to view this path in such a way where we find whatever we deem success as THE PROCESS of doing the thing... where may we find ourselves in the end?

Take this with you to the gym and in life, see what happens.

PS. Jeff is still going.

See ya out there,

Coach D.