Achieving your goals with your body depends on your ability to set a clear goal and being willing to falter on the road to those goals.

Transcript:
Hey everybody, this is Matt Hsu from Upright Health. Welcome to Episode 19 of the Upright Health Podcast. I apologize that it is now the middle of May and that means it's been nearly a month since my last podcast episode. In the intervening weeks, I have moved the Upright Health headquarters to Redwood City, California. And I have picked up a partner and friend, Josh Hash, to join me at Upright Health, to make things even better and badder for everybody. So if you are in Redwood City and you're looking for people who are willing to help you and really passionate about helping people move better, then come check us out. You know where to find us. But in case you don't, it's UprightHealth.com.
So today’s episode, episode nineteen, the topic today is “commit and be willing to fail.” Today, it's kind of more personal, I think. I'm going to share some personal things with you, in the hopes that the ideas will help spur you to action. I've been reading a bunch of different books while doing all this moving and such. And also I've been doing just random research, as I normally do all the time anyway. And I came across some quotes that I thought I would share with you today. And just wanted to share some related stories from my life.
So the first quote that I wanted to share with you is actually a quote that I've found in a book by Peter Thiel. He's one of the co-founders of PayPal and his book is called Zero to One. And there's a quote in the book on page one or two that I think is extremely relevant to things that you do with your body. It's something that I have said in a different way before and is being said in this book in a way that applies to business, but also I think to life in general. And the quote is this: “If you think something hard is impossible, you will never even start trying to achieve it.”
I think I should say that again: “If you think something hard is impossible, you'll never even start trying to achieve it.” So the meaning there resonates so clearly with me. It gives me goose bumps. And I hope it means something to you, especially when you're dealing with the body. It's very easy – very, very, very, very easy -- to think things are basically stuck the way they are. There are a host of reasons that I'm just not even going to talk about. I don't wanna get on my soapbox today, but there are hosts of reasons that can make you feel like… make you mentally fully convinced that the way things are with your body now, just cannot be changed. Whether the reasons you have are age or whether you think it's because you have some sort of diagnosis or a disease or your body has always looked a certain way or your body has always moved a certain way. If you think that you cannot change it, you will clearly have no reason to even start trying to change it.
So one thing that I think, you know, this is probably the one thing actually that stymies most people's efforts and it's just simply not believing that they are capable of doing or changing their body in some way. Whether that's because of pain, whether there’s plenty of people who feel like, “Oh, I'm overweight and there's just no way I'm ever going to lose this weight.” And I've seen countless examples of other trainers’ clients lose weight. I’ve seen my clients lose that weight. I've seen even on myself, I've had plenty of extra chub on my body. And I should probably share a picture. I don't know if I'm brave enough to share a childhood picture of myself, but maybe I will. I have a picture of myself in my underwear as well and it's not flattering. But may be a childhood picture, I'll share so you can see what I looked like up until around time that I finally decided that I wanted to change my body.
So anyway, whatever things that you are thinking about -- whether its building strength,