In 2008, AT&T had a great commercial touting the new reminder features on their smartphones. The premise of the commercial is a family has a live-in task-master named Sven that keeps them on track. My wife and I joke that we need a Sven when we start to get behind on things that really need attention. Sometimes it feels like the lists are really long and need prioritization, but we just aren't motivated to stick to the grind. Sometimes everyone feels like they need a Sven, but that's not true. I have had the good fortune to be able to work with a personal trainer over the past 6 months and the relationship has been great. The best part for me is that the ownership for success is on me, not my trainer. Some people feel like they need someone to just "tell them what to do" like Sven does in the commercial. What they don't realize is this mentality transfers the ownership of the outcome to the trainer and that won't work. You have to get invested and own