We can talk, educate, and debate the facts on exercise technique and nutrition another day. Today I want to talk about mindset. This is something that is not debatable. This has been such a huge focus for me over the last year and more specifically, the last 4-5 months. It's so powerful and if you are not tuned into the right mindset, you are cutting yourself short. Mostly working with kids, I hear their lack of self-confidence and how they put down others and never give themselves enough credit for the skills they currently have. They are young and when in school, they are molded by peers as it's easier to correlate with a group than figure out who they are as an individual. As adult you can make the choice to have a strong mindset, you can decide what you want, who you want to be friends with, what job you want, and what dreams and goals you will set for yourself. I highly encourage you to envelope yourself in a positive mindset and surround yourself with people and resources that lift you up and push you to be better. The next two paragraphs are words spoken by people that explained it so well, I will simply copy and paste.
"There is nothing as powerful as a changed mind. You can change you hair, your clothing, your address, your spouse, your friends, your residence, your church... but if you don't change your mind, the same experience with perpetuate itself over and over again because everything outwardly changed, but nothing inwardly changed." Statement from TD Jakes
"Your brain is like a circuit switch, once you believe you are something, you actually embody it, and you embody that feeling. If you were god forbid in a coma and you woke up and you really didn’t have a memory and you were told that you used to be a Navy Seal and they want you back once you’re healthy. Do you think you’d act differently and hold yourself differently and conduct yourself different and have a different self-concept of who you are, than if you were told you were a piano instructor. Being successful in life is all about having the proper believe system and who you are, truly believing that you are something unique, that you are something special in that field.... Our brain is like a circuit and so if we introduce it with the proper wiring, you’re gonna go straight to your target. But if you are unsure about who you are, then your dreams, your goals, they will never become a reality. Everyone has mental doubts in life, internal conflicts, even the most successful people that you look up to, but they don’t live there. It’s how you handle those negative thoughts in that exact moment and overwhelm them with positive ACTION and that comes with the up most confidence in yourself that you can handle the situation, trust in yourself that you are better than the normal."
That's a speech from Jaret Grossman. It's so very true and if you make the choice to make a change in your life or are reaching for a big goal, then you have to constantly work on mindset. Like everything we do, if you don't practice and do it often, that skill or knowledge will be lost. You don't just have a positive mindset every day- life happens, we have ups and downs- but with the right attitude you can make it through the lows and continue to reach even higher highs. Make a goal, big or small, write it down and then commit to achieving it! Even if it doesn't happen immediately, keep working and believe in yourself that you can achieve it. It's important to me that as I teach kids how to be better athletes, they also learn to believe in themselves and encourage others so that our training environment is one that gives the greatest chance of success. Hard work only takes you so far- you have to have the right mindset to get to the top!
