Welcome to the sports motivation podcast. It's your host, Nishe Chobo.

So as you go about the process of reaching your goals, man, and setting these goals and

defining what you want for yourself and then, of course, going after it, right?

Naturally, you run into problems, challenges, obstacles.

This is the whole reason why we set goals in the first

place. Think about competition, right? If you ever played a sport before, let's say you play basketball.

You practice so you can play in the games, you play in the games, and you usually play against

another opponent, right? But what if you practiced and then you went to a game and the other

team didn't show up? Would you be like, hell yeah, we won, baby? No, you'd be like, what the

fuck? Where the opponent at? AKA, where's the problem at? Where's the challenge at? Where are

the people trying to prevent me from putting a ball in a hoop? I didn't sign up for this basketball team just so I can, you know, play five on

nothing. I could go do that at the park. So when you think about the essence of competition,

it's saying, yes, give me a problem, give me a challenge so that I can overcome it. That's what

competition is.

If you're a fighter, you step into the ring. You don't step into the ring with nobody. You step into the ring with somebody else. And you say, I'm going to, I see this problem and challenge ahead of me. He's trying to dominate me, but I'm trying to dominate him. So let's see who can win.

So everything he does is to try to create resistance for me to win.

But I'm going to overcome each problem, each challenge, each obstacle so that I can win.

I'm saying this so that we can collectively stop looking at problems, challenges, and obstacles

as a quote-unquote bad thing. They're not bad. Now, do they create pain? Yes, but pain is not

always bad. And if you've ever worked out or trained, you understand that pain is actually

a prerequisite or a necessary ingredient for growth.

So we must have problems, challenges, and obstacles.

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