Lift The World

"Lift the world" A mantra that fuels determination and keeps me focused on my dreams. It doesn't mean that I'm trying to lift as much weight as possible in vain. It means lift the current world I'm in off my shoulders in so that I can build the world I want to be in. Every time I lift that barbell off the floor and overhead I step one step closer to my dreams and one step away from the weakness within me today. I am a collegiate weightlifter and the name of the game is to lift as much weight possible.

The world I am in now consists of college, peer pressures, and weightlifting. It's a lifestyle that requires much self-discipline which I am not always good at, but I get better each and everyday. I know that if I am not disciplined in school then I will fail or at least receive grades below my potential. If I am not disciplined to resist certain peer pressures and to surround myself with good people then I will become what I hate; a lazy, unmotivated person. Not a man, but merely a person who looks like a man but is too weak mentally to take action and conquer himself and his life. If I become that person then I will never reach my dream of being a national level weightlifter or to build the world I want.

I fight everyday on the lifting platform so that I can fight harder in life. The sport keeps me honest. The barbell will never lie to and always keeps you in your place. If you try to lift to much, it will crush you. If you fight hard it will fight harder. That barbell will show you who you really are, what you are really made of because it will always push you to the edge. It will ask you,"Do you keep fighting through the reps and the heavy loads? Do you push on even though you feel nausea from so many squats after lifting maximal on the clean and jerk and the snatch? Or do you go home and walk away?" I replied,"I stay, I fight because I know each lift brings me closer to my dreams of being an elite weightlifter and the man I will be. I will lift you, barbell, until you have taken every ounce of strength from me or I break you in two my friend. This is a fight to the death and I will win."

This doesn't only apply to weightlifting, it applies to what it is that you love and do. Build your world as I build mine, one brick at a time. I will continue to lift the world, my world, until I build the one I dream of on this platform until I no longer am able. Will you?