@adamwrightfitness: You can be ambitious and gentle with yourself. Pushing toward change doesn’t have to come from self-criticism. In fact, when it does, it rarely lasts. Sometimes we tell ourselves it’s “motivation,” but really…it’s fear. Fear that if we slow down, we’ll stop. Fear that if we don’t push harder, we don’t deserve the progress we’ve made. Fear that unless we’re doing it perfectly, we aren’t doing it at all. But you don’t need pressure to grow. You need to grow at your own pace. It’s not weak to go slower or lazy to rest and it’s not failure to be human in the middle of a transformation. You can want more and give yourself grace.