Everyone’s done it you and your buddies are sitting around drinking and someone asks what would you do for a million dollars, Before too long you find out your best friend would blow the western Seaborg for it. Now I know you’d work your ass off to reach your ultimate goal: 300lb bench, 600lb dead lift, being named “Mr. Pecs” (I’m not judging).
What would you do to reach that ultimate goal immediately? For example you blow somebody and you can instantly have your desired goal. And what’d you’d do for a million dollars for comparison.
Truth be told, I wouldn’t want it instantly. It would kill the satisfaction that only spending all that time and work will to achieve it.
I’ll give a real life example that has nothing to do with weightlifting then tie it in:
[soapbox-rant]I screwed around a bunch during my undergrad. I partied hard, I blew off my studies. I only did enough to get a 3.0 gpa which honestly wasn’t a whole lot. When I got the degree, I really wasn’t all that proud of myself. I knew what I put into it and it wasn’t much.
Now my graduate degree that I earned a couple or so weeks ago is very different. I had to deal with a bunch of personal crap and really hard classes that I had to work my ass off to get B’s and A’s. I even retook courses because my focus became lost due to an incident with sociopathic woman, failing gut health, and a negligent apartment manager all to willing to buy into libel and dishonesty for what she thought would be convenience.
Regardless, I made ways to overcome the bullcrap and succeed and earn my master of science degree. I felt really proud and when I get my first career job, I’ll be proud for that too with all the applications and work I’m putting into that.
I used to think that when people told me that what you work hard for is that much more satisfying they were full of it, but it really is true and that’s one of the things I love about the iron sport.[/soapbox-rant]
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
Truth be told, I wouldn’t want it instantly. It would kill the satisfaction that only spending all that time and work will to achieve it.
I’ll give a real life example that has nothing to do with weightlifting then tie it in:
[soapbox-rant]I screwed around a bunch during my undergrad. I partied hard, I blew off my studies. I only did enough to get a 3.0 gpa which honestly wasn’t a whole lot. When I got the degree, I really wasn’t all that proud of myself. I knew what I put into it and it wasn’t much.
Now my graduate degree that I earned a couple or so weeks ago is very different. I had to deal with a bunch of personal crap and really hard classes that I had to work my ass off to get B’s and A’s. I even retook courses because my focus became lost due to an incident with sociopathic woman, failing gut health, and a negligent apartment manager all to willing to buy into libel and dishonesty for what she thought would be convenience.
Regardless, I made ways to overcome the bullcrap and succeed and earn my master of science degree. I felt really proud and when I get my first career job, I’ll be proud for that too with all the applications and work I’m putting into that.
I used to think that when people told me that what you work hard for is that much more satisfying they were full of it, but it really is true and that’s one of the things I love about the iron sport.[/soapbox-rant]
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Congrats, satisfaction definitely must be earned. I did very well in undergrad but it came pretty easily and it felt kind of hollow at the end. It’s not really about what we accomplish, but what it takes to get there.
OP it sounds like you really want to fellate someone. I suggest PMing Ct. Rockula.