Over the past 10 years, I have studied the mindset of successful people from all walks of life, and I always seem to find a lot of similar traits when it comes to their mindset's.
When it come to our mindset's though, it is an extremely difficult one to be able to analyze and decipher whether or not we are currently moving through life with a mindset that will help achieve success, or a mindset that create's self sabotage.
Being on guard and having that awareness of our mindset, our self talk and our thought patterns is one of the most empowering steps we can make when it comes to achieving our goals and dreams, but unfortuantely this is one component that is greatly neglected during our education years.
I believe the way we use our minds is the defining factor between our success and failure, but this information isn't readily available or is it promoted as such an important factor in our development years, but I can tell from personal experience, when you use your mind in the way it was developed to be used, the power you begin to feel is one that you wont get from anything else in the world.
From my experience, this feeling can be summed up simply as, a feeling of being in total control. Now, this control, isn't a feeling of controlling the results, but controlling how we act and approach thing's that happen to us and the direction we choose to go.
For many years I aspired to become a professional athlete, first a tennis player, then a golfer. I knew all along my mindset was my biggest weakness and the only thing that was holding me back from success. Even after seeing a Sports Pyschologist, I couldn't seem to find that Key I was looking for, to unlock my potential. It was at this time I started to research the human mind, human behavior and human psychology to look for answer's and for me, I found more than an answer.
For me, I found the Key To My Life!!
I realised that I was 100% in control of my mind and my success. Once I had a goal in mind, I focused on that goal and nothing was going to get in my way. One other extremely important thing I realised was that success wasn't a destination, but it is a process. Success is about focusing on the here and now, knowing that what you are doing RIGHT NOW will help you achieve a higher performance.
Mind you, this was definately the hardest lesson I have ever learnt.
After I ruptured the 2 lower discs on my back, spending 15 months lying on the ground, I was told I will never play sport ever again, I will walk with a stick and most likely end up in a wheel chair. After the initial few weeks of shock, it was at that moment that I had 100% control over my mindset. Taking control of my mind at that point, was the most amazing feeling. Not letting the excrutiating pain I was experiencing, or what the surgeon told me control what my mind was focused on, but controlling what I had to do RIGHT NOW to achieve the best possible outcome.This was and still is, what I believe, one of the most empowering feelings a human can experience.
So I ask you, are you in control of your mindset or is the game of golf/poker, or anything esle you are pursuing in control of you?
I would recommend spending the next 7 days becoming aware of what your Mindset is like when it come's to your success and whether or not this Mindset varies depending upon situations or circumstances that arise. I was lucky enough to have a client point me towards a movie called, Peaceful Warrior from 2006 with Nick Nolte. My client sent me a link to one of the trailers on Youtube of the Movie and it really sparked in my mind again, the importance of creating a Mindset for yourself, a philosophy to live your life by, no matter what happens as not only sports & poker can throw some interesting curve balls at you, but so can this funky thing we call Life. Over the past 6 months especially, we have seen with the ChristChurch Earthquakes and the Japan Tsunami that things can be taken away from us in the blink of an eye, I believe that these events help us to create A Successful Mindset in the following days of these events, but it is our responsibility to maintain such a mindset.
I would like everyone that read's this blog, to make a comment below in regards to the following question-
WHAT IS YOUR PHILOSOPHY TO LIFE?
You can comment on what your Philosophy was as well as what you would like it to be from now on. I hope through this blog we can begin to fine tune your Philosophy as well as the way you approach your life:)
Thanks for Reading!! :)
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