Happy 4th of July!!!

Set your bar high.

But not too high.

Set it just high enough that you can almost feel it within your grasp, so that you can see it.
Set your bar high so that you can grow, so that you can add an extra 5 pounds on the bar to bridge the gap between scaled and Rx'd.

Set your bar so that you can see your future self; a stronger, faster, healthier you.

Set your bar so that you can get one step closer to your ultimate goal, be it Firebreather, Games competitor, Masters athlete or anything in between.

But set it just that one step away.

It is easy to want to just set your bar at the top, at the pedestal of where you want to be, at your ultimate goal.

But setting your bar at the top, at amazing? It makes it pretty damn hard to start the journey. It makes it easy to settle for where you are, it makes it easy to utter the words "I could never".

It makes every day seem like a failure, like a defeat.

But yet every path to Firebreather, Olympian, Games athlete, every single one of those paths - they begin with a single step.

They begin with a single smaller goal. To get a MU, to qualify for nationals, to make it to Regionals.

They begin with not-so-exciting moments.

To get out of bed, to get to the gym, to eat right, to sleep right, to show up day after day - the amazing always starts in the unglamourous, as a diamond in the rough.

Amazing starts where you are at today.

It starts with a single step towards the door. It starts with a single fractional on the barbell. It starts with a single ring row.

Amazing is a journey, not a destination.

Start your journey and THEN get to your destination.