"Test whether your goal makes sense with a reframe question When a client in her late 30s brought in a photo of herself from her mid-20s and said "this is what I want to look like," a trainer asked how she had actually felt about her body back when that photo was taken. She paused and admitted she had been deeply insecure about her appearance even then, despite looking exactly the way she now aspired to look. This revealed that "the way you feel about yourself is largely subjective" and that chasing a specific visual target often just relocates dissatisfaction rather than resolving it. Before committing to a goal defined by a past image, a number, or someone else's standard, ask yourself honestly whether achieving that exact target in the past actually made you feel the way you expect it to now. Source: Sal Di Stefano, Mind Pump Podcast, Blue Collar Fitness & Scale Weight Pitfalls"