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Why Fear Is Stopping You From Being Successful

May 18, 2016Mindadmin

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We live in a world of fear.

For most of us, every decision we make is based on fear. Now I don’t mean the fear of getting stabbed randomly at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, but the sort of kind which makes you not want to eat that new food because you’re scared you will not like it, or not starting a conversation with a person because you’re scared that they do not want to talk to you.

“Stop living in fear and more in a world of opportunity”

Recently I have truly realised just how much fear plays a role in our lives, even for me, however slowly over the past few months I have slowly started to stop living in fear and more in a world of opportunity.

2 major things happened to me:

1. UNIGAINS

I have tried and failed with making blogs since last year. There were reasons why they failed, and I will talk about that in another article.

UNIGAINS was my third attempt at making a successful blog. For those who don’t know, this is how it started:

Yeah, I know, it’s fucking awful.

After getting some opinions from friends and Reddit, I came to the conclusion that it was absolute dog-shit – the website needed to be completely redesigned.

I knew that if I really wanted to have a change at UNIGAINS becoming successful I needed to invest some money into a site – this is where the fear kicked in.

‘What if I invest money into this and it becomes unsuccessful?’

‘What if I try really hard and people tell me it sucks?’

‘What if I spend money on hiring a designer and he makes everything terrible?’

These were some of the thoughts that I just could not get out of my head, and it stopped me from redeveloping the site for a few weeks until I tackled my thought process from a different angle:

‘What if this guy makes an amazing website which will help build a really solid foundation from which UNIGAINS can grow!?’

‘What if people really like my content and value it!?’

‘Sure it costs some money, but this could help generate a career which could make that money back!

‘What is the worst that could happen? I lose some money which I could have spent on clothes. Big deal.’

and most importantly…

‘What if I could make a true difference to the world. What if I can help young people realise their full potential and transform their lives!?’

It was this slight change in thought process which made me look at the positive ‘what ifs’ instead of the negative ones. I also thought about the worst case scenario and it was not that bad… at all.

This helped me make the plunge in helping myself invest in a developer to make UNIGAINS the awesome site which it is today. Sure I haven’t made my money back (made £2.70 for those who are interested), but it is by far the best decision I have ever made in my life, and I do not regret it for one second.

I have realised the potential of what I could do. Sure the odds may not be in my favour, but I’m no longer scared of that; the fact that I can potentially help transform the life of one person out there is all I need to keep on being persistent with UNIGAINS.

2. Breakup

About a month or so my long-term girlfriend of 3.5 years (at the time) broke up with me *cue sobbing and weeping*.

Now, you’re probably thinking, ‘wtf has this got to do with living in fear?’… well, everything.

I’ll keep it 100 with you, I didn’t want her to leave me. The relationship was kind of fizzling out a little bit, and to be honest we were getting bored of each other, but I didn’t want to end it… because I was scared.

I was scared because for the past 3.5 years this is all I knew. In fact, as soon I was ever interested in girls this is all I have ever known – I was in my comfort zone.

Going out drinking and partying with mates was way out of my comfort zone (I was strange I know), so I always copped out and chilled with my gf instead – I never really needed to go out of my comfort-zone.

When I moved up to London for work and my then-gf went to uni in South England, I always still had that one constant in my life which made things that little easier. Again, sure I made some new friends, but I always had that security of someone who was with me along my journey.

The accumulation of the above reasons resulted in me being comfortable and secure. Sure, deep inside I had doubts about the relationship, but the fear paired with the fact that we still quite liked each other still (it wasn’t an angry breakup) made me want to stay in it.

Again, not going to lie to you, the night of the break up I was a mess. I had a solid 3-hour weeping session. However, afterwards I really started to think about it all and how I was feeling; I was just so scared:

‘What if I can never find someone as good as her again?’

‘What if no other girls like me?’

‘How on earth do I hit on girls? I’ve never had to do that before?’

‘How do I go out and make new non-work friends in a new city?’

‘What if I get all lonely because I don’t have someone in my life?’

Yes, this is the sort of shit that was going through my head. Luckily, I have worked on really being rational and in-tune with my thoughts and emotions, enabling me to identify that I was scared, logically think about why the breakup happened, why it was the right choice, and how I can positively move on from it.

The whole experience was great for me; it helped me identified my flaws and insecurities, allowing me to slowly take steps to helping myself become more confident and secure of myself.

I identified that whilst I was quite sure of myself when it came to my career and life choices, I was quite insecure when it came to myself in terms of girls – this is expected after 3.5 years with one person.

So what did I do? I read some books about it all and realised that the core fundamental issue was not even to do with girls, but more with always trying to impress, living in fear, and not naturally expressing myself; this led to me overthinking things and becoming insecure in some aspects of my life.

This realisation allowed me to put steps in place to slowly work on this, such as being aware when I was actively trying to impress, such as hitting heavier weights when I know people are watching.

It also enabled me to take steps to understand when I was fearful of making a decision. For example, last week on Tuesday I was on the train heading to a client for work when a mid-20’s women sat across from me. She asked me a question about the next stop, and I kindly answered. Normally that would be it; I wouldn’t even bother to think about trying to have a conversation – ‘who would want to talk to a random person on a train?’.

However, I thought to myself, ‘what if I could have an amazing conversation right now? And what’s the worst that could happen, she ignores me or the conversation fizzles out? I can handle that’.

So I went fuck it and asked her a question about her nationality (she was foreign) and then she went on to say how she was from Holland. We ended up having a really interesting conversation and I learnt a lot about photography (she was a photographer) and about Holland – fuck fear.

This was a huge moment for me, as I felt like I’m slowly allowing myself to not fear the fear, but embrace and understand it instead.

“Do not fear the fear, but embrace, understand, and accept it”

This happened again on Saturday, where my cousin and I went to a business convention. I arrived about half an hour earlier than him, signed up, and was just standing there. I picked up my phone to pretend I was busy or whatever, went to the toilet to waste some time, then thought to myself:

‘Yo, go and talk to someone! Look around, everyone is on their phone copping out of interacting just like you are because they’re scared. They probably want to socialise and meet new people, so just approach someone and ask them a question about the event – what’s the worst that could happen? They ignore you or don’t want to talk. You’re not getting rejected because you’re just inviting people to a conversation. If they don’t want to talk then so be it’

This helped convince me to walk up to a woman and ask her about why she was at the event. Again, we ended up having a nice conversation about graphic design and broadcasting.

At the event, I had a few more conversations with people, by just starting conversations with the people I was sitting next to. Some lasted longer than others, some fizzled out whilst others were really interesting. The point is that I have no regrets, whilst I would have if I let fear take control and not trying at all.

I’m not saying that I’m now some sociable god, but allowing myself to rationally realise when I was thinking irrationally in fear has led to me really being able to take steps to embrace and accept it.

Woah I’ve written a lot…

Closing thoughts

Fear is a prick. Fear is stopping us from looking at all the positive aspects which a decision can bring, and amplifies all the negative ones which could potentially happen. The thing is, most of the time the negative things that could happen are not even that bad.

When you start to take steps to stop living in fear and live in a world or opportunity you will truly allow yourself to develop as a person and be able to do and accomplish things which you may have never thought you could.

-Mike

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How To Balance Fitness and Exams – by GB POWERLIFTER

May 15, 2016Body, Food, Mindadmin

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*This is a guest post by David Carleton, a GB POWERLIFTER. So listen up! Check out his website and amazing coaching programmes here*

Exams… Agggh! Every student’s worst nightmare!

One word can bring so much dismay, misery, and stress! Your head is stuck in books, you don’t see the light of day, and what’s worse, how are you supposed to keep making progress in the gym!?

Balancing exams and fitness goals is a very common problem that students face.

This is something I have struggled with in the past, however, as a competitive powerlifter I have had to come up with ways to deal with exams but still fit in my training; this became extremely important last year as I was chosen to represent Great Britain at the IPF World Powerlifting Championships in Finland. During my preparation I had numerous exams and assignments which added stress and took a lot of my time. However, I still had to find time for training and keeping up with my nutrition to ensure I performed well!

I am going to break down some strategies I used to help me and how you can remain on track and keep progressing both in the gym and with your revision.

Organisation and planning

These two words are the key to staying on top of your fitness goals and passing your exams; if you become organised and plan, not only can you stay on top of everything, but you can also become more productive, allowing you to get more done in less time!

To begin, follow these simple:

Begin by knowing your overall goal for the week. For example, going to the gym 4 times so you can keep progressing, finishing a certain assignment, or getting a specific block of revision done.

Break your weekly goals into different days. For example, let’s say there are 4 topics in your revision block. Therefore, you could decide to dedicate one day to each topic. Or you could decide that you want to go to the gym 4 times a week so you decide that it is best to train on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

Break down your day into specific goals. For example, setting a daily goal to revise a topic, go to your class, go to the gym, or even to procrastinate by watching a TV series (obviously after the rest have been done!).

Break down your day into specific time periods and fit your goals into those slots. For example, getting one part of your revision done between 9 and 11, then going to the gym until 1, making lunch and relaxing until 2, then doing another topic until 3 – you get the idea.5. Re-evaluate either daily or weekly. What did you do that worked or didn’t work? For example, did you spend too long in the gym so you didn’t have enough time to revise? How can you fix this?

Re-evaluate either daily or weekly. What did you do that worked or didn’t work? For example, did you spend too long in the gym so you didn’t have enough time to revise? How can you fix this?

By making goals, setting your objectives for the day, and having specific time periods for getting stuff done you automatically become more productive. You spend less time wondering what you should be doing now and more time doing things that actually matter; you will be able to balance your social life, training, and studying by simply assigning tasks of goals to the week and each day.

After we have planned and organised ourselves we can move on to methods we can use to keep us on track with our nutrition and training, whilst not committing silly amounts of time to both!

Training

Quite simply, you don’t have to spend all day in the gym! The days of 3-hour sessions and hammering a muscle group until you cannot move are done! Higher frequency routines are the new go to for maximum muscle and strength development. If you can have shorter sessions and still make progress this means you have more time to dedicate to other areas!

Here are some simple go to rules when designing or looking for a resistance training programme:

Hit each body-part a minimum of twice a week with multiple sets for the best chance of muscle growth.

Train with loads where you can hit between 8-12 reps for maximum muscle gains.

Increase your volume (sets, reps or weight) week by week, ending in a week where you aim to hit bigger volumes than your last training cycle – termed a “peak”.

After your peak in volume, take a week of lighter training to allow the body to recover and repeat the above, starting with a higher week 1 volume.

Rest as long as you need; longer rest = more recovery = perform more sets = more volume = more gains – simple!

Make sure you train with a full range of motion to get the greatest muscular gains – yes no more stupid half rep squats!

The above guidelines allow us to see that we need a routine that allows us to hit bodyparts a minimum of 2x per week using multiple sets with maximal weekly volumes (most likely using 8-12 reps in sets), while resting as much as we need and ensuring we use a full range of motion.

If you follow the above guidelines you could have a split such as:

Day 1 – Lower body

Day 2 – Upper Body

Day 3 – Lower Body

Day 4 – Upper Body

Work in the other guidelines and you are well on your way to building a routine for maximal muscle growth! Furthermore, going to the gym 4x a week can easily be managed and fit into your week if you plan it well!

Nutrition

Keep it simple and make it fit your lifestyle!

Remember that calories are king, followed by macronutrients (protein, carbs and fats). Therefore, as long as you remain within your daily caloric intake and hit your macronutrient numbers you can eat what you like – realising this can be a massive stress saver!

Simply, figure out your maintenance calories and then adjust by 5-10% to either gain or lose weight.

After doing the above, track your calories and aim for your goal each day. If you don’t know how to calculate your maintenance calories or track your calories check out Mike’s awesome article here.

Furthermore, ensure you are eating around 1g of protein per lb of bodyweight, 15-35% of your daily caloric intake comes from fat sources and the rest of your calories are from carbohydrates.

Once you have sorted the above, we can focus on micronutrients aiming to get 1-2 servings of fruit and veg per 1000 calories. This isn’t a hard task, will cover your micronutrient needs – in simple terms it will keep you healthy!

It really is that simple! You don’t need any fancy diets, restrictive food intakes or fancy supplements!

Some additional guidelines to help you make progress would be to:

Download MyFitnessPal and use it to log your food intake for the day

Plan your food intake the night before – this literally takes 5 minutes and prevents you constantly thinking of what you could cook for your next meal – again, improving your organisation and giving you more time for other things!

Track your bodyweight each morning under the same conditions and take an average over 7 days – this allows any fluctuations to iron out and will give you a good indication of progress

If you find you are no longer making progress in the right direction adjust your caloric intake up or down 5-10% depending on the scales

Remember that calories are king – if you hit them but miss your other goals then don’t worry you will still be moving in the correct direction!

My Fitness Pal — Your best friend to make proper progress with your nutrition!

Snacks on the go

Snacks and meals on the go while your busy revising can be a total lifesaver! They allow you to satisfy your rumbling tummy, continue revising and can even benefit your body composition. Below are some of my go-to snacks:

Protein Bars

These are easy to transport, easy to eat and just plain nice – that is if you get a great brand! My go to at the moment are Grenade Carb Killas. If you haven’t tried them, you haven’t lived! Seriously, they taste like a chocolate bar! Their macro breakdown is: 210 calories, 23g protein, 13g carbs with 7g fibre, and 8g fat – who can’t fit these into their macros!?

Meal Deals

The solid choice when on the move or in the coffee shop wanting a quick snack. Try opting for a sandwich option that is higher in protein and lower in fat to help save on calories but also keep you full for a while. I have two solid options at the moment:

Co-op basil chicken and tomato sandwich – 315cal/22p/44c/5f

Tesco Tikka chicken with mango chutney – 352cal/23g/51c/5f

Combine these with a fruit pot and zero cal drink for around £3 and you are onto a winner! If you have slight more to spend, check out M&S meal deals – they have some great macro friendly options but they can be a little pricey!

Bulk Cooking

This is the easiest way to stay on top of your nutrition while you are busy studying away. Simply pick an afternoon or evening where you have a little more spare time, for example, Sunday and cook a number of dishes which can be frozen, defrosted and reheated for through the week.

A few of my favourites are spag bol, chilli and curries. To make them more filling and provide vital micronutrients I usually layer them with vegetables.

Chicken Breast — Simply add seasoning, cook and freeze – easy!

Buy a slow cooker

Honestly, this is a life saver! I save endless amounts of time not having to cook a meal by using this method. Slow cookers are convenient and you can get a decent one from around £20-30 – not really breaking the bank! The worst bit is smelling the awesomeness but having to wait until you eat!

slow cooking

A bit like bulk cooking from above, simply buy your ingredients, prep them and throw them into the slow cooker. Do this in the morning when you wake up, go and study and then come back ~8 hours later and boom – dinner served! Easy as that – no more fussing around the kitchen at dinner time! I normally get around 3-4 meals per cooking session, again, freezing some for later use.

Normally I cook about everything and anything in the slow cooker, again, firing in a lot of veg to cover my micronutrients.

Recently I have found these handy little slow cooker sachets from Schwartz. They do all the seasoning etc for you. All you have to do is simply purchase the ingredients, throw them into the slow cooker and job is done. What could be easier?!

Closing Thoughts

Remember that passing your exams is probably going to more important in the long run than achieving your fitness goals right now – you have the rest of summer to pursue your fitness goals – if they are but on the back burner for a little while don’t stress!

However, by applying some of the strategies outlined in this article you can organise yourself to train as much as necessary, eat to suit your lifestyle, revise as much as you need to and most of all make progress!

-David Carleton

Final message from Mike

Guys, David knows his stuff. I’m lucky to have the opportunity to chat with amazing people, and David is one of them.

It is one thing for me to share my experiences on how I went from overweight to getting into shape and using fitness as a catalyst to own life, but it is something else to get inside the mind of a world-class athlete.

If you want more from David and how he managed to get to the strong beast that he is today show and share the love!

Oh, and if you want a step up from my Free UNIGAINS Program and/or feel like you need more personalised and tailored help, then David is the man for you. Check out what people have to say about him and his programs.

-Mike

References

1 Schoenfeld, B., Ogborn, D. and Krieger, J. (2016). Effects of resistance training frequency on measures of muscle hypertrophy: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Sports Medicine.

2 – Krieger, JW. (2010). Single vs. multiple sets of resistance exercise for muscle hypertrophy: A meta-analysis. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. 24, pp. 1150-1159.

3 – Schoenfeld, B., Peterson, M., Ogborn, D., Contreras, B. and Sonmez, G. (2015). Effects of low vs. high load resistance training on muscle strength and hypertrophy in well trained men, Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. 29 (10), pp. 2954-2963.

4 – Schoenfeld, B. (2010) The mechanisms of muscle hypertrophy and their application to resistance training, Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. 24 (10), pp. 2857-2872.

5 – de Salles, B., Simão, R., Miranda, F., Novaes Jda, S., Lemos, A., and Willardson, J. (2009). Rest interval between sets in strength training. Sport Medicine. 39, pp. 765-777.

6 – Hartmann H, Wirth K, Klusemann M, Dalic J, Matuschek C, Schmidtbleicher D. (2012). Influence of squatting depth on jumping performance. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. 26(12), pp. 3243-61.

7 – Pinto RS, Gomes N, Radaelli R, Botton CE, Brown LE, Bottaro M. (2012). Effect of range of motion on muscle strength and thickness. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. 26(8), pp. 2140-5

How To Be Consistent: Featuring Gokuflex

May 11, 2016Mindadmin

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This is the most underrated topic when it comes to achieving success, whether in fitness, wealth, or other aspects of life.

As I’ve mentioned in my last post, to get to where you want to be in life you have to put in the work. Unfortunately for us, you have to put in a lot. Have you ever heard the saying that to become a master at something you have to train for 10,000 hours? I’m not sure about the actual figure, but I believe it.

Typically when we see successful people we tend to jump to assumptions: “Oh, he is only that big because he is on steroids!” or “Oh, he is only rich because he had a rich dad!”. Sure this is the case in some instances, however, most of the time these people have just put in a shit load of work… let me give you an example:

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Matt Kido A.K.A Gokuflex is a fitness instructor and has a Youtube channel with over 120,000 subscribers. HE LOOKS MAJESTIC.

So many people assume he is on steroids because he is just ridiculously huge… but they fail to appreciate that Matt has trained hard for over 10 years. That is a long time. Assuming he trains an hour a day for 5 days of the week for 47 weeks of the year (5 weeks off), Matt has spent over 2350 hours in the gym. If you factor in the amount of time he must have spent eating right, sleeping right and gaining fitness knowledge, Matt could have easily spent over 10,000 hours perfecting the art of fitness: no wonder he looks so good.

The example above was just to put things into perspective, you need to put in 1000’s of hours of work to achieve your goals, and what is the key driver here? Consistency.

Okay Mike, we need to be consistent. But how do we actually become consistent?

You cannot sprint a marathon

Too often these days I see people take an all-or-nothing approach. I was like this at first, until I tried to go on a full ketogenic (really low carb) diet straight away, instantly failed, then went back to my shitty diet again. Sure, I made 2 weeks of good decisions, but that was it.

Next time around I decided to take it easy, and only went semi-keto: I still ate carbs, just less than before – I took baby-steps. However, I was able to keep this up for months, allowing me to get in pretty good shape:

The point is that you really have to understand that slow and steady is key. Sprinting will not get you anywhere if you do not finish the race. Especially if it results in you giving up.

Make your goals achievable

This is an important point: when people tend to set goals for themselves they will make them stupidly hard, like waking up 2 hours earlier, exercising for 2 hours a day and all of that… STOP THAT. You are just setting yourself up for failure.

Already you’re trying to sprint out of the blocks. Instead, set yourself goals that will be absolutely shameful for you to not do. For example, if you are trying to lose weight set yourself a task of walking for 3 minutes each day. If you can honestly tell me that you cannot spend 3 minutes out of your day to walk then please never come to this site again.

3 minutes walking might seem so small that it won’t do anything. To be honest, it will not have a significant impact on your physical health. However, mentally it will do wonders. Just as a snowball starts off tiny, so does your ability to stay consistent and motivated. Being consistent, no matter how small, will slowly build up your ability to commit to things even when you don’t feel like it. For example, I have to physically force myself to not go to the gym, even when I feel shit, because it is so mentally ingrained in my brain after consistently training for years.

Each day I exercised, no matter how small, committing to it was so much easier. Eventually, once you start to appreciate just how much it is benefits you you will actaully start wanting to go, to the point where I’m at where saying no is a big challenge (but you have to sometimes, otherwise you get injured…)

Appreciate the journey

Again, another severely underrated aspect regarding goal-achievement.

We live in a word of instant gratification; we like to get things now. We like answers straight away. We hate waiting for things. I do too.

This is why we like TV comedy so much; it provides an immediate feeling of gratification. However, when it comes to achieving your dream goals you will not just get free satisfaction; you have to work for it. On the plus side, you will receive a much deeper feeling of satisfaction, one that truly comes from within, and it feels amazing.

Every day when I sit down and work on UNIGAINS I feel like I am progressing in life; I am becoming a better version of myself and helping to realise my dream – I love it. Sure, it does take a lot of commitment, however the feeling I get from improving on myself is one like no other.

Ironically, it does take some time and effort to enjoy the hard work which yields this incredible feeling; this is why it is so important to start off gently and easily to slowly build up your appreciation for self-improvement.

Change your thought process

One thing that really helped me learn to stay consistent was by changing my thought process a little. When I feel tired and not bothered to do anything at first I used to say ‘oh, its fine I will pick up on it tomorrow’. If you do the same, try thinking about this instead:

“My goal requires me to put in a shit tonne of work. Every day I do not work towards it will be one day further away. Is it really worth it?”

Now I know you, and know that you are thinking “If I skip a day I will just to double tomorrow”. Fair logic, although let’s be honest, that never happens. However, if you believe that it does try imagining it like this:

“My challenge is to be a better version of myself each day. If I do not work towards my goal I will just be the same old standard yesterday-version. Ew.”

If you had the choice to get a PS3 or a PS4 which would you choose? PS4 obviously.

If you could chose to get a car with 0 miles or and old car with100,000 miles which would you choose? The new car obviously.

We like new things. We like upgrades, so why would we be complacent and let us not be better than we were before?

There is not a better investment in the world than investing in improving yourself

The only thing you can truly control in this world is yourself. Working on yourself internally will translate fantastically externally.

Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, PayPal and SpaceX, reads a shitload; he invested in himself. Look where that has got him. He’s a fucking legend. His aim was not to get stinking rich, or to be famous, but he has achieved both because he invested in himself heavily which allowed him to externally translate this into driving innovation and creating stupidly fast electric racing cars.

Everything you externally create or achieve comes from within. If you want to make an impact on the world you have to make an impact on yourself first.

Now if this speech did not make you incredibly motivated to stay consistent then I don’t know what will, because that was gold.

Joking aside, I could have packaged this, put a load more useless shit in it, and sold it as a £10 e-Book. Even better, I could have made 10 30-minute videos saying basically repeating the same thing to waste time, opened a private exclusive Facebook group and sold it as an online course for £100. I didn’t.

It is my sole desire to help you truly realise your potential, and consistency is at the heart of it. Do me a huge favour and invest in yourself right now. I don’t care how small it is, just make that first tiny step to upgrading yourself.

You will not regret it.

-Mike

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May 4, 2016Mindadmin

My recommended productivity app

Look, I know that deep inside you do not want to sit on your ass all the time being an unproductive slob. I know you have dreams and ambitions which others have laughed at you for having… fuck them.

The beauty about goals is that they are all relative. If you have £1, making £128 feels impossible. However, I bet you could make £2, just buy some sweets and sell it for double – easy. Now with that £2 it is easy as hell to make £4, just do the same again.

That £4 turns into £8, that £8 into £16, £32, £64… and you are already at £128! Instead of it being 100 steps away it really only is 7. Always remember this – Impossible goals which seem ages away are actually a lot closer than you think.

Okay, now you know that you can reach your goals, but I know what half of you are going to say… ‘Now is not a good time, I will do it when the time is right’ THE TIME IS NEVER FUCKING RIGHT.

Let me give you a personal example with UNIGAINS: I am an accountant and working a 35-hour workweek, 50 including travelling – now is not a good time to start UNIGAINS. However, if I tried to postpone it for 6 months what would happen? Will I suddenly stop being at work for 50 hours? No. Will I suddenly have more time on my hands? No. If anything, it will only get worse as I will climb up the ranks and have more workload and responsibility… it is never a good time; if you really want something to happen just make time and get on with it!

Why it is important to work towards your goals right now

Field

The way I see it your dream goal is hidden in a field… under a huge pile of shit… Like a massive pile of tonnes and tonnes of Shit.

Now to reach your goal you have to remove the shit, but only have a shovel to do it – it’s going to take a long time, so the earlier you start the earlier you’re going to finish.

However, each consecutive day that you remove shit your shovel gets a tiny bit bigger – in real life this is you gaining momentum and more motivation as you start to achieve your mini goals. When you miss a day your shovel gets smaller again, as you will be you lose momentum.

Oh, and every day that you don’t remove shit more shit gets added on – this is mainly a mental thing, as you slowly make yourself believe that your goal is more of a dream.

Remember, you don’t have to go all in 100%, all you have to do is at least something; it is better to walk 10 miles than only being able to sprint for 5. Trust me, you will regret every day that you did not do something to get to where you truly want to be in life.

I recommend getting this simple productivity app on your phone to help yourself set quick, small, incremental and manageable goals each day to help you stay focused and on track for greatness.

Don’t be that person who could have been amazing… BE AMAZING.

-Mike