No excuses here! Bitter divorce, injuries, nagging bodily pains, hormonal fluctuation due to extreme stress and lack of sleep, missing my kids, slow as fuck at work yet I STILL go rip shit fuckin riot when I train!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree! Big difference between motivation and being driven.
I always saw motivation as temporary, like a spark that can either start a fire within you or fizzle out. I've always seen being driven as a mindset that has become part of your personality, something you cannot stop thinking about and nothing will stop you from accomplishing.
You have to fall back onto discipline when motivation fails. Make yourself show up. Will yourself to keep going. I’ve always been one to burn negative energy in the gym or whatever kind of training I was doing. Turn the negative shit into aggression. Lift heavy or rep it out. Use it to keep running when your body wants to stop. Life sucks, especially this year. My personal life is crap. I’m not sure if I’ll be married myself next year. But I don’t let it stop me, I let it fuel me.
Strength doesn't come from physical capacity. It comes from indomitable will. -Gandhi
You cannot dream yourself into a character. You must hammer and forge yourself into one. -Thoreau