Your Ambition Will offend a lot of Lazy People

productivity Oct 19, 2022
Your Ambition Will offend a lot of Lazy People

In this day, many people drift through life. They wait for life to happen, and have been told that it's the right way to live life. Because of this, it should be no surprise that your ambition will offend a lot of these lazy people.

Time & time again, lots of people become discouraged towards their goals because of these lazy people discouraging them. These lazy people will justify why you should be lazy & why you shouldn't try so hard to reach your goals.

Although their reasons will always be told from the perspective of why YOU shouldn't do it, understand that their motivation for discouraging you always comes from THEM.

It's simple enough to say, "Oh, just ignore them, bro!" For most people, however, this isn't enough. It isn't healthy to just force yourself to ignore the opinions of others. That doesn't mean you should bury your ambition either.

It's time to accept that your ambition will offend a lot of lazy people & there's nothing you can do to please them. This is the process I went through to get to this point.

Step 1. Get Angry/Motivated/Determined

When I started working out, I was super skinny & had a beer belly. I was in the dreaded physical state of skinny fat. To make matters worse, I grew up in an environment which encouraged that it's what's on the inside that counts & I was wasting away my time on video games.

Eventually, I got fed up.

I started working out after getting bored of video games by playing them for so long. For the first time in my life, it felt good to exercise so I kept going with it.

Eventually, the motivation that fueled me in the beginning ran dry. I had to force myself to keep going, but it was a huge drag to get myself to work out in the first place.

Then, one day, I looked at myself in the mirror and noticed my forearms were way more defined than before. I took at least 5 minutes to admire myself in the mirror, then got hyped to work out that day.

The problem people have with motivation is they believe it's a one-and-done kind of deal. In reality, motivation is best fueled by small achievements acting as benchmarks for your success so you can see how far you've come. For more information on how to sustain drive easier, I recommend this video.

Step 2. Have a Big Picture Set for Your Ambition

My big dream behind working out was and still is achieving & maintaining a greek god physique. To be more specific, I wanted to get six-pack abs & be shredded.

Growing up, I was conditioned to believe that it's sinful to want to be sexy. I was conditioned to believe that it was shallow. This led me to set a goal that was smaller in scope; instead of the shredded greek god physique I truly wanted, I set the goal of being muscular & not fat.

The result of that smaller goal was that I made almost no progress in my aesthetics, but my muscles grew significantly. As of writing this post, I'm still undoing the "damage" done by my not aligning with my true goal 100%.

When it comes to your ambitions, get clear on your goals & why then never stray from that path. By staying on course toward your big picture, you make significantly more progress in less time.

Step 3. Understand Why Your Ambition Offends Lazy People

 

After working out for about a year, I started getting into tracking my macros. I did a lot of research on how to properly measure what I was eating.

This led me to have a new diet, which worked wonders for my progress. I gained muscle much faster, and I had more energy than ever.

However, my Dad would not stop complaining about my diet for a while. He would keep going on about how he never had to do what I was doing, implying that I shouldn't be doing it either. This made no sense since I was paying for all the food I was eating.

So what did I do? I kept going. I knew my diet was getting me the progress I wanted faster than before, which led me to not care about his opinions about diet & nutrition.

So I kept going, and he kept complaining. Until one day, he stopped. He hasn't complained about how I eat ever since.

This process repeated when I was teaching my little brother about proper nutrition until he started getting results from his new diet, which led him to not care about our Dad's opinions.

The way I've come to understand it is this: lazy people get offended by your ambition because it exposes their laziness & makes them feel bad about it, so they try to convince you to be lazy as well. 

Them feeling bad about their laziness is not something you need to worry about because it isn't your responsibility. Yet modern people are convinced to some degree that they are 100% responsible for the emotions of others.

To be a masculine man, you must not let the emotions of others dissuade you from your goals. They will try to convince you to do this because your ambition will offend their laziness.

When this happens, smile, say hell no, and keep going.

- Karl