Inspiración Diesel...

What is Best in Life?

Mongol General: Hao! Dai ye! We won again! This is good, but what is best in life?
Mongol: The open steppe, fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair.  

Mongol General: Wrong! Conan! What is best in life?

Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women.

As I get older and wiser (much wiser than I was when I was younger) I often go back to this scene from one of my favorite movies, Conan the Barbarian

As I guy I have a passion to be the best, “to crush my enemies”.  Now if you are a women reading this post, I am about to do the unthinkable in the man’s world.

Let something out of the vault.

I remember a speaker at an NSCA event many years ago talking about how you have to treat AND motivate male athletes different than female athletes. In athletics and team sports here is a truth: When a team loses, a guy is still happy if they themselves played well.  Women are only happy if the team, as a whole, played well. Why?

We got the testosterone.

It makes us do crazy stuff sometimes, like drive like a madman toward a goal or a task.  This can be great if your passion is helping others. For me, this means being a good Dad, being a good friend and always try to help others reach their goals. But sometimes it isn’t easy.  The kids drive you crazy, your friends have their ups and downs and sometimes people don’t want to be helped.  You have to be certain and relentless in the wake of all adversity.

Think about Conan pushing the Wheel of Life around for years.  Think that was easy?  I don’t know if you know this but the story of Conan was real, that sh*t actually happened.

So what is my point?  Life isn’t fair, life isn’t easy, life isn’t certain. The ONLY thing you can be certain of is you only get to do it once.  So you dominate, go for your dreams and kick ass.

Never quit, never surrender, just kill it. Try to let actions speak louder than words!