FOCUS ON YOURSELF AND STAY SILENT IN 2026 - Powerful Motivational Speech | Chris Bumstead
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🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
YOU OWE IT TO YOU IN 2026! Advice and wisdom from the 6x Mr. Olympia Classic Physique title holder. One of the Best Motivational Speeches Ever. Edited by Motiversity.
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Chris Williamson: https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisWillx
Speaker
Chris Bumstead
https://www.instagram.com/cbum/?hl=en
Jim Carrey
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Epidemic Sound
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| 0:16.2 | Did you ever secretly want to quit before, but you stuck around due to expectation? |
| 0:21.8 | I did announce privately that I was retiring after my fifth win. |
| 0:26.3 | I had a video on my phone, I recorded me, like, crying in my gym after a workout, being like, this is my last Olympia. |
| 0:31.6 | That was really the only moment where I was like, I'm done stepping away, and then I had to come back and be like, I'm not done, I'm doing this again. |
| 0:38.3 | You're raining, six-time Olympian champion Chris Bumstead! |
| 0:49.3 | When I started by the building, it was kind of just like the gym was a beautiful place for me to go and escape and enjoy it and I loved it |
| 0:54.7 | started to see progress and it changed over time it just kind of like shifted into a bit of a pressure |
| 0:59.8 | and I started to time my identity to and like kind of like I needed a lot of aspects of it and I never wanted to |
| 1:05.2 | but like I made the decision to be in body building. I'm making the decision to stay technically, |
| 1:11.4 | but is it a free choice if I feel like I have to do it to be good enough? But I feel like myself |
| 1:16.1 | worth in my identity to attach to competing now. So this goal I have, this journey I have, |
| 1:20.6 | and I have this intense tension because it's not a positive choice. It's not a free choice of like |
| 1:24.3 | this is wanting to do this. It's like I have to do this to be good enough |
| 1:35.0 | I wasn't getting anything from it anymore that was serving me and then I had to like really be honest with myself but clearly you were attached to that and now you may lose it all would you |
| 1:38.7 | be okay with that would you be okay with it all gone. |
| 1:47.7 | Before it was like the love of the sport. |
| 1:51.2 | It was love of bodybuilding and then it became this attachment to this like need of like what came with it. |
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