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Stop chasing results

You are on a mission. You want results and you are ready and willing to achieve results. You have commitment, discipline, focus and passion. This is the year when you are all-in to experience success. A motivated mind and a body on a mission is the perfect recipe for health and fitness improvements. However, if you are only focused on results, this forward-thinking, result-focused mentality forces you to believe that it's only when you achieve results that you will happy or feel more successful. Consequently, this thinking often influences extreme choices in order to achieve quicker results, like overtraining and underfueling/undereating, as it relates to wanting the result of being a better, stronger, leaner or faster athlete. Although S.M.A.R.T. goals are important, a result-driven mindset can fog good judgment choices. I imagine there are many athletes who aspire to be better, leaner, faster or stronger. But it's the obsessive focus on the end result goal th...