Hello and welcome to this episode of the EST Fitness podcast. This episode is all about the

fuck average mentality and I'm not someone who normally swears, but this is like one of the

situations where I will swear. I try and live my life generally by this like fuck average

mentality and I think where it helps me most is and live my life generally by this like fuck average mentality.

And I think where it helps me most is that you accept that,

and almost like you accept and kind of lean into the fact that things are going to be hard sometimes.

Because it's definitely harder to get up and go to the gym than it is to stay in bed. It's

harder to read a book than watch TV. It's harder to say no to that third slice of

pizza that you still kind of want but you know that it's not in line with your goals

than just to keep on eating. It's harder to not give in to peer pressure when there are a load of people

drinking and they're trying to force you to drink, but it's not in line with your goals. I say

that as if I actually feel peer pressure around drinking, which I personally don't, but for most

people, especially people whose job is like heavily focused within that kind of culture or whose

social norms or who maybe previously was the one who was always drunk and drinking, like,

it's harder to do those things. It's harder to stand your ground and be like, that choice

is not in line with my goals. And it's certainly harder to sit with emotions than it is to just

distract yourself with food. And it's harder to stay cool in an argument and not react and say

something that you regret, right? And then like from a business perspective, it's harder to work

on your business when all your mates clock off at 5pm and they have the security

of a 9 to 5 kind of job. But nothing truly rewarding happens without some element of hard work.

And if you don't want average results, you can't put in an average amount of effort. Like if you

don't want a mundane and

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