Set Scary Goals Today and Transform Your Life!!
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Tired of falling off the fitness wagon every January?
Spartan founder and endurance legend Joe De Sena teams up with triathlon champion Aaron Gesell to share the ultimate formula for staying motivated, crushing your goals, and transforming your life.
They dive into a powerful 3-step system that has helped countless individuals turn their fitness aspirations into lasting success.
Discover how to set "scary" goals that push you beyond your limits, create an unbreakable support network that keeps you accountable, and shift your mindset to make fitness a natural part of your lifestyle—not just another chore.
Timestamps:
00:20 Intro
00:49 Taren Gesell, endurance athlete and motivator
01:13 Why motivation fades and 3 tips to stay on track.
02:45 Setting scary goals and building accountability
03:31 How fitness transforms identity through community.
06:03 Overcoming the fear of joining fitness groups
07:57 Joe’s global running group experiences 09:34 Embracing humility and consistent improvement
11:05 How athletes support beginners
12:15 The humbling impact of endurance races
14:01 Taren’s app and its focus on long-term motivation
15:38 Joe’s pull-up journey and daily commitment.
16:36 Training insights from world champions
17:45 Where to find Taren and his resources
18:12 Bringing triathletes to Spartan Races.
Connect to Taren:
🌐 Website: https://www.mymottiv.com/about?ref=navbar
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/triathlontaren/
💼 LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/tarengesell
▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1AKDrz2GvLxD29W9tow66g
✖️ Twitter/X: https://x.com/triathlontaren
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | When you start building community for yourself that is revolving around fitness, |
| 0:06.9 | all of a sudden that fit part of you becomes your identity. |
| 0:10.1 | So like we're never going to be the top dog in any of those things, |
| 0:14.1 | but we can be a better version of ourselves and just accept, hey, there's going to be better people out there. |
| 0:19.0 | And it's not like those better people are going to look down on us. |
| 0:21.6 | You'd be surprised how everybody wants to lend a hand to the newbies. |
| 0:25.8 | Welcome to the Hardway podcast with Joe Dicenna, founder and CEO of Spartan races. |
| 0:31.6 | We're teaching you how to overcome your obstacles in your life the same way we teach our 10 million plus Spartans to overcome |
| 0:37.7 | obstacles on the course with insight from the smartest must accomplish experts from every corner |
| 0:42.6 | of the world get ready to elevate your life today Joe DeSenter here CEO and founder of Spartan |
| 0:50.3 | and host the hard way podcast I got my buddy Jared Gazelle on the line. This guy is an animal. |
| 0:55.9 | He motivates the world. He is a gazelle. I see you drinking coffee, though. Are you motivated? |
| 1:02.2 | Tea, a little bit of licorice tea today. Everybody complains about motivation, especially the first half |
| 1:08.8 | of January, right? We get really excited with our goals. We're going to change our life. We're going to pick up some amazing habits and 80% have already quit. What happened? They lost motivation? I think they have a poor structure. I think that everyone has the right motivation starting, but going and doing these big life-changing New Year's resolutions by yourself is very hard. |
| 1:32.1 | And the way that we try to tell people to structure yourself for success, we use three tips. |
| 1:39.1 | Number one, set a scary goal. |
| 1:41.4 | So whether it's a Spartan race, an Iron Man, something that scares the hell |
| 1:45.0 | out of you that you think you probably can't do it, that will get you out of bed because it starts |
| 1:51.9 | creating doubt and how do we alleviate that doubt by working hard. Thing is, it's tough to get |
| 1:57.4 | motivated to work hard by yourself. So the second part is tell somebody about |
| 2:01.7 | that goal. Don't just say, I'm going to run a marathon and then write it in your diary and go |
| 2:08.2 | away. Tell somebody. And all of a sudden, that builds that accountability. Third part, |
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