For the three months that I focused solely on just training, my one and only desire was to become much bigger and stronger at the end of the 12 weeks. Now, besides my yearning for an awesome body, I have only two other burning desires: to be successful in my career (now that I am at the end of my college education) and to help as many people as possible with this blog. That’s it. At this point in my life and for the foreseeable future, I want NOTHING else.

I was not always like this though. Like most people, I used to yearn for a thousand little things. From reading glossy magazines, from looking at other cool people, from watching exciting commercials, I kept adding to my list of wanted stuff and skills almost every other day. Soon, I spent more time on daydreaming about these trivial objects and knacks than on finishing my actual tasks at hand. And the thing is, none of these desires are strong enough to seriously push me to take action toward attaining them. They were just there all the time, nagging on me constantly, making it impossible to focus on anything. I was never satisfied with what I had. I always wanted more. I was never really happy.

For you ectomorphs training to become stronger and bigger, it is imperative that you spend the majority of time, energy and money on training at least for a short period of 12-16 weeks (then you can gradually add more goals). How, then, can you stay focused on training when you want a thousand things? How can you keep your burning desire for a muscular physique when it is lost in a sea of other yearnings? How can you keep feeding your hunger for gaining massive muscle while you have to feed countless other hungers? It is simply impossible.

So:

• Control your desires. Pay attention to where you get your desires.
• Limit your desires to only 2 or 3. Having only ONE desire for a short period of time (e.g. 3 months) is the best!
• Make sure your burning desires are strong enough to push you through when the going gets tough. If you are not willing to jump through hoops for your desires, then get rid of them. They will just make you unhappy.

RECAP: Have only 2 to 3 desires (training for a bigger and stronger physique is one of them) and make sure those desires are strong enough to push you on till you’ve achieved what you want.

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