Everyone can develop a champion mindset. Every athlete can learn to think like a champion. Everyone can strive to be their personal best self
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Goals
What is your big goal? What is success for you in the sport you practice?
What do you want to achieve?
When you know what your big goal is, you can take a step every day to make your goal a reality. Training, eating, resting, making time, persevering even when you don’t feel like it, aligning everything, ensuring that you do everything possible to achieve your big goal.
When you dedicate yourself passionately to your goal, decide to only do what aligns with your goals, and with hard work, patience, and iron discipline, you can go far.
But what do you do when your motivation falters? What do you do when you don’t feel like it, don’t have time, or don’t have energy? At that moment, it’s time to develop the champion’s mindset.
Motivation
A true champion resides within you. The champion-level motivation is within you and starts with the great desire to become the best at what you do. To become the best in your sport.
To bring out the best in yourself and give everything you have.
We all experience setbacks, challenges, difficult moments, or reluctance on our way towards our goal, sports goal, or any goal that doesn’t matter. To become a true champion in your field, being good is no longer good enough. What distinguishes true winners from the rest is that they don’t settle for silver, they aim for the best, the highest achievable, they aim for gold. A champion does what he must do to get where he wants to go.
Champion’s Mindset
Realistically, not everyone has what it takes to become a champion in their sport. But everyone can develop a champion’s mindset.
Every athlete can learn to think like a champion. Everyone can strive to be their personal best self. Strive for their highest potential. It is possible for everyone to adopt the champion’s mindset when you don’t feel like working towards your goals. It is possible for everyone to give everything you have. It is possible for everyone to make time if your goals are truly important to you. You don’t have to be a champion to develop such a strong mindset as that of a champion.
Mental strength, a champion’s mindset, doesn’t mean gritting your teeth, trying harder, listening to more motivational music, and having someone next to you screaming in your ear ‘KEEP GOING!!’ Mental strength, the champion’s mindset, is the strength to remain positive and proactive in difficult moments. Not losing sight of your goal when you encounter an obstacle. The champion’s mindset is built on doing what is difficult, time and time again, especially when you really don’t feel like continuing and can’t find any motivation anywhere. Keep going on your down days when you don’t feel like it, that’s how you bring out the champion in you.
Excellence is not achieved or innate by accident. It is developed and achieved by setting goals, developing an inner drive that no longer allows giving up, having a long-term vision, and a plan on how to do what you need to do day after day. Whether you feel like it or not, have time or not.
Distraction, no time, no desire, and difficulties are not reasons to stop for a champion. The champion wins all the battles in their head and does not allow themselves to be defeated by weak moments.
The champion’s mindset is within you, build it so powerful that you cannot help but achieve your big goals.
The amazing things that world-class athletes are able to accomplish are usually chalked up to freak ability—and that certainly can be a factor. But a much bigger factor in those athletes reaching that level is their relentless ability to consistently win the fight-thrus.
Jason Selk
