24/09/2026
Do you think something has gone wrong when it starts to feel hard?
Because hard is guaranteed (soz)
When you first start something, motivation is high
You’ve got a new goal, a new plan, you’re excited about what you could achieve
Then you actually have to keep doing it 🤓
The novelty starts to wear off, life happens, you have days where you can’t be arsed, progress might feel slower than you expected and suddenly you start questioning everything
This is basically what they call the valley of despair and at some point, everyone is going to end up there
And how you respond here is what matters most..
Because anyone can follow a plan when motivation is high and everything feels easy peasy
It’s what you do when it doesn’t that matters
When your brain is telling you to sack it off, can you sit with that feeling without acting on it?
Can you have a s**t day without deciding the whole week is ruined?
Can you miss a session without deciding you may as well start again Monday?
Can you accept that sometimes doing the things that are going to get you where you want to be isn’t going to feel very exciting or easy
Because that’s where you actually start changing your behaviours
If every time things get a bit hard you stop, wait until you feel motivated again and then start ove
You’re just going to keep repeating the same cycle
You don’t need to find a way to stay motivated forever
You need to learn how to keep showing up when you’re not
Because being able to sit in that uncomfortable bit, ignore the voice telling you to sack it off and keep moving forward anyway..
That’s the bit that changes everything ✌🏼