Belief unlocks Potential.
When I was 18 years old, I watched a video titled Zyzz the Legacy
I weighed 145 lbs at my height of 6’2. I was home for the summer, living in a garage with my brother, having just completed my freshman year at UCLA.
It was a tribute video of a 22 year-old bodybuilder, who had passed away. He had the exact same back story as me, and he said something that would change my life forever.
To be spoken after his death, his words would plant the ultimate seed of belief, and echo across my heart for the rest of my life.
“We’re all gonna fuckin’ make it bro
– that’s it.” -Aziz Shavershian
To believe in something I couldn’t prove, while having no evidence around me to suggest I was ever going to transform, made the whole thing feel impossible. When I shared with others who I was going to become, it was only ever met with laughter. Through tears, I would tell myself “We have to make it!” as if I was trying to save my own life.
So I lied to myself, for years.
The hardest part wasn’t the work. It was shattering the limiting belief I had that the body, the confidence, the freedom – the life – that I wanted was only for the gifted, the special, the elite, the sacred few. Basically everyone besides me. The day that was finally shattered was when I finally believed that lie for myself.
“Maybe I can make it too.” That was the day I finally reached “Until.”
It’s true when God says, you need only faith as small as a mustard seed. Because all it takes is the tiniest glimpse of evidence in the mirror, in your habits, in all of the compounded effort you do day in and day out behind closed doors when no one’s watching – for that seed to be watered.
For that seed, to finally take root.
I learned from Greg Plitt, that’s all character and integrity is. The work you do when no one is watching.
The small victories that do not complete the transformation, but unlock each next level of possibility.
You begin to ask yourself, “What more am I capable of?”
“What else am I holding myself back from?”
“What other dream can come true,
if I have the courage to pursue?”
