Wow! I function best when I know where I want to go. I spend huge amounts of time and effort trying to assess: 1.) Where I want to go. 2.). Why I want to go there. 3.) What I want to accomplish when I get there. Basically, “IS WHAT I HAVE CHOSEN TO DO—-WORTH IT!” I have to do this extreme exercise to develop the proper mindset to win! With my “mindset” in place there are few things that can derail my direction and effort to finish well. All obstacles and predictable failures along the way cannot and will not stop me. In other words, “HOW BAD TO I WANT IT!”
In all of our life’s experiences we have learned a baseline lesson, “In order to be prepared for the execution we have to “OVER PREPARE.” We just don’t practice until we get it right, “WE PRACTICE AND PREPARE UNTIL WE CANNOT GET IT WRONG!” This is our mindset that sets the stage that will overcome the anticipated and unanticipated obstacles and bear us up from the predictable failures. How many times have we started strong on a project or goal only to stop and discard it because something got in our way and we folded and quit? The answer i, “too often.”
I thought I could never compete in bodybuilding when I started at age 63. Many people chuckled when I told them what i wanted to do. I had to pass under the critical eye of much younger and experienced eyes. But! I developed a “mindset” that saw the stage as my goal an I was determined to be “stage ready” and I’ll be damned—-I made it. The first night out I won 3 trophies in 3 divisions. I was hooked. Never again did I just want to participate…..I wanted to compete and win. My “mindset” was forged and I’ve never abandoned it.
Let me conclude by saying that it’s all up to you. However, you have to do the mental, spiritual, and character work up front to win. The work is required but determining the goal, the why, and the iron clad determination to win is your source of making it to the thing you want and getting it.
MINDSET IS EVERYTHING OR ANYTHING WILL STOP YOU!
