No, I did not simply wake up like this... I have become obsessed - not with a certain look or a six pack - obsessed with upgrading my life in every single aspect✨ I am not a fan of clean diets, white fish and caloric deficits, but I am addicted to #challenges ! ✨ My professional career in Academics never challenged me. Write an award-winning PhD thesis? Ya...done. Publish scientific book chapters? mkay... Guest editor for a journal? Sure can do that. It never fullfilled me or gave me a feeling of accomplishment. ✨ By now, for a full year, I have been challenging myself in a way I never did before. From a full summer of self-coached #powerbuilding towards competing in powerlifting to a structured #bodybuildingoffseason and a 17 weeks competition #prepdiet ... and moving around the word - once again. The mental aspect of this sport is what #challenges me the most and what keeps me going at the same time. I refuse to be average and I refuse to let myself down. Instead of asking for things to be easier, I ask myself to be better! Every day! ✨ I did not just wake up like this, I WOKE UP LIKE THIS BECAUSE I DECIDED TO DO SO! ✨✨✨ #mindsetofgreatness #blowmymindset #livelikecatie #motivation #levelup 📷 some day in April 2019... (at Alicante, Spain) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwrcujSFyah/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=nb26z0vcpdwa