There are two things which are certain; you are alive at the moment, and one day you will die. Therefore the question, what life goals do you have?

Are goals a trap?

There are different schools of thought behind this. One thought is that having goals, or certain life goals is a trap. For example Nietzsche said that every philosopher knew that inherent in every single goal is a trap, or some sort of cul-de-sac.

My personal thought is that life goals are some sort of anchor. Some sort of general direction you could head towards.

Something I have discovered for myself is that the hilarity is that once you achieve life goal, it doesn’t feel that significant. For example, a simple goal that I had more recently was doing an atlas lift of over 800 pounds, and I have far smashed that record, going around 835 pounds.

Maybe we could think of life goals as a methodology or approach — maybe my life goal is not achieving some sort of static goal, or point, but rather, thinking of a life goal as a process of never ending growth and gains.

What do bodybuilders want?

What do bodybuilders want? Never ending gains.

For example, if you observe the career of Ronnie Coleman, every single year at Mr. Olympia he was bigger, weighed more, and had more muscle mass. Granted that he was juicing his eyeballs out with steroids and other strange things, the general just of a bodybuilder this to never stop building his body. And I suppose building means making the body bigger, more muscles.

For example, let us say that a bodybuilder starts off at 160 pounds, at 5% body fat, with a six pack. The goal isn’t to simply weigh more, but, to remain small in terms of body fat percentage, and to put on more “muscle weight”.