What are you chasing? Let's take a look at the mental narratives around our goals. It’s of the same sentiment that when you chase what you think you want, you might find the fastest way to it, but get there and feel empty inside… for if you don’t appreciate the path, and give yourself to the journey, when you get to the end, then what? Abs seem to reign in our human minds as the “goal”… the ultimate “I did it”. And there is nothing wrong with aesthetic motivation… for there really is truth in ‘look good, feel good’. But if you chase from the wrong end you won’t ultimately get the sustainable or fulfilling result. Chasing the feeling is an inside out approach and one that accumulates more benefit than you realize. It is the opposite mentality of ego lifting. Ego lifting is lifting a weight just to say you did it. Often at sacrifice of a low back or any logic… but you earned the accolade (which honestly can be cashed in absolutely no where besides a social media post)… You miss the purpose of the lift, the proper activation of the kinetic chains at work, the neuromuscular feedback, the reps…. Most of all the reps…. The continual intentional reps that lead to cumulative effect. So if you take any advice from me this year. Change your approach. Unlearn the engrained narratives (shoved in your face, and even subconsciously absorbed, on here), that aesthetics are the goal. Aesthetics are just a byproduct of doing the real work. Reconnecting to yourself.