I see where they are coming from, but I am 100% sure I never want to see life from their eyes. A lot of people see their best days behind them and decide to just let life control them, as opposed to them controlling the direction their life goes.
I realise this morning, as I have many times before that I train for ME!! Yeh, years ago as an elite tennis player and golfer that I trained for my sport. Now this felt great to train to become the best I can be in a sporting pursuit, but I can tell you that it doesnt compare with training to become the best I can be FOR ME!!
I train to be the best I can be in everything I do. My career as a Mental Game coach is the greatest career I could ever imagine and I want to make the most of that and my life in general while I have control over that.
A lot of my motivation comes from my back injury years ago, when after spending 15mths on the ground and being told I will never play sport ever again and probably use a walking stick, I decided that if that was ever going to happen to me, that I was going to control it! I wasnt going to sit around and wait for the walking stick or wheel chair, I was going to try and get my body back into shape to play any sport I want, if I ended up not being able to walk, I did everything in my power to live an active lifestyle.
Probably one of the biggest motivators to my training came approximately 3 months after surgery, I was recovering quite well when out of the blue the entire right side of my body went weak. I couldnt sign my name, hold a tennis racket and my right leg would flop around at times with no direction from myself in how it should function. My initial thought was it was a nerve in my neck causing some referred symtoms but after going to the doctors, was told to go and get a brain scan. After getting the results back from the brain scan, my back injury seemed pretty minor.
I had what is called a demyelination on the brain. Basically a spot on the brain that affects your brains performance. The symptoms went away after about 6 days but the Neuro Surgeon said that it is either a one off spot or the beginning of MS and we wont really know for sure. Luckily I had conditioned my mind to find solutions to any problems, I asked the surgeon what can I do if it does turn out ot be MS. He told me that if it is MS, the stronger my body is the better I will be able to function during any episode I have.
So since that day I have kept a focus on being strong and enjoying everyday, as for EVERYONE, we really never know when life could take an interesting turn.
I always had the thought "NOT ME", it wont happen "TO ME", but I now realise it could happen to anyone! There are so many "Its" in the world these days that we owe it to ourselves to live everyday, every moment with an appreciation and passion that will help you kick "Regret" to the curb if at any times it does happen to YOU!
One of my favorite movies is Peaceful Warrior with Nick Nolte, which is an amazing movie that is a story about a college gymnast that Nolte tries to mentor to live in the moment. To be present to what is going on RIGHT NOW and this is a philosphy I try and instill in all of my clients as the power of NOW is truly amazing. This mindset and attitude has helped me to get my life to where it is today, with NO regrets and level of fulfilment and happiness I wouldnt change for anything.
During my 15mths of lying on my back with 2 prolapsed discs, this thought kept going through my head and I still live by today-
"You can sleep all you like when your dead, so LIVE when your ALIVE!!
And this is why I JUMP out of bed EVERYDAY!!
With Poker player and Friend Brendon Rubie at Aussie Millions Party 2012.
THERE ARE NO ORDINARY MOMENTS!!
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