Be Realistic
Training notesThe hardest thing to do in the world is to be realistic. We all want to be the best, the biggest, the most successful. Truth be known, we can’t. Even if we can be it won’t last. So why try?! Because we can be OUR best and that is all that is important. Now the hard part is to know when you are being your best, when you are slacking off and when you are being to hard on yourself. Once you know this you can begin to motivate yourself correctly. I know all you slackers out there are thinking, “Great! I don’t have to try until I figure that out!”. Guess again. The way we learn these this about ourselves is by striving to be the best, yes we have come full circle…almost. The point I am driving at hear is that in your quest to be the best you have to be willing to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and say “well that didn’t work” and immediately try again (or once your injuries have healed). Unfortunately it is often to easy to excuse away our failures by believing that is our best or by blaming them on things outside our control. This is nonsense AND the path to failure and self-loathing, not the life many would choose willingly. So what are you supposed to do?
Use your time wisely. Train in your idle moments making them positives instead of negatives. Stop making excuses!! Look objectively at your efforts and performance to see where you can improve. Remember that we all slip because we are not perfect, the important part is to stop the slip before it becomes a fall! Beating ourselves up over these normal occurrence is a negative exercise that perpetuates our desire to fail. Yes desire to fail, most don’t recognize it but we often fail out of fear of success, but that is another article I will write later… If you are just starting, start slowly, realistically. If you’ve been training, know your limits and push them if possible. Above all remember that while we want to be the best of the best, if you are the best you can be then you already are among the best of the best! And by the way I am writing this as I just finished wasting 4 hours I can never recapture that could have been used in a much more constructive and positive way.
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