From the Brickyard | Subject: You gotta hate it
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Dislike isn’t enough.
We can live with things we don’t like.
We can tolerate weakness, flab, low energy, excuses.
And a lot of men do—day in and day out.
But if you want to transform?
If you want to step into the Brickyard forged and unrecognizable from who you used to be?
You can’t just dislike it.
You have to hate it with a passion.
Hate the body that feels soft.
Hate that the shirt fits tight around the waist and loose around the sleeves.
Hate that you’re weak and out of shape.
Hate the feeling of hiding yourself instead of walking into a room like you belong there.
Only then will you have the fire to move.
Only then will you put the junk down, set the alarm early, drag yourself into the iron pit and go to work.
Only then will you stop tolerating and start building.
Hate will fuel the consistency.
Hate will fuel you when doubt creeps in.
Hate will carry you past “it’s fine” into “it’s go time.”
That hatred, directed positively, becomes the spark that lights the Forge. That Forge builds the man who refuses to settle for average.
Dislike accepts.
Hate ignites.
So take a look at yourself.
Find what you hate.
And start stacking bricks until it’s gone.
Brick by brick.
-Brickwall