CHAMPION MINDSET!
What is it that you truly want? What is your life goal? Where do you want to be in five years? Not five, where do you want to be tomorrow? Look in the mirror.That's your competition. Are you better than you were yesterday? Are you doing the work to get you where you know you could be? Wishing on your goal is not taking you there! ARE YOU DOING THE WORK, THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE? Stop saying tomorrow, I'll start tomorrow. No, you need to start right now. Don't think about what you need to do, think about who you have to be to get it done.
Take a list of paper, write it down. Write down everything you need to do to get you to your goal. Maybe it's not happening today or tomorrow or next year. But you will be moving forward, you know you'll be getting there by doing these things! Stop wasting your time and stop looking for excuses. Put up a daily routine and stick to it. Wake up early, drink your coffee, get to work. Stop procrastinating. If you started five years ago, what would your life look like? If you started ten years ago, what would your life look like today? It's not too late, start today.
If you'll stick to your routine for long enough, it will become natural to you. You will set up a mindest of a winner. You know who a true winner is? Someone who wakes up every morning and decides to go out there, seizes the day and fights whatever comes in the way. Someone who refuses to take the path someone else chose and refuses to settle for less than glorious. Someone who struggles and gets the work done. So tell yourself, I can do this. Because you can, you can do this. Tell yourself you will let no one stop you. It's your path, it's your battle, you're going to fight it, you're going to win it.
When you become that person, you will lose a lot of people. They will hate the fact you don't have time to go to lunch, that you don't stay out late and drink, that you don't come and hang out anymore. But listen to me, you got work to do. You got story to write. They are not moving forward. Getting drunk is not moving forward. Watching hours of series every night is not moving forward! Stop wasting your goddamn time, go and do the work! They will get mad at you, they will call you weird, they will try and talk you out. People don't like watching someone else do the work they know they should be doing. When they see you doing it, they know it's possible. And they will try to stop you, believe me. They will try to tell you it's stupid, it's too hard, you're not good enough, it's impossible. And they are right. It's stupid, too hard and basically impossible... for them. They don't have a mindset of a winner. They are wasting their time telling you all of this, while they should be getting their own shit done! Don't listen to other people. You know where you want to be and you know what you got to do. Do it.
Ask yourself - is what I'm doing right now, taking me where I want to be? If the answer is yes, congratulations. You're making your life a masterpiece. If the answer is no, you net to get up right now. Right now, and go look yourself in the mirror. Who is the person, looking back at you? And be true to yourself. You are exactly where you should be by doing what you do. Describe who you are. Be honest! Are you a coward? Are you unmotivated? Are you looking for excuses? Are you lazy? Admit those things to yourself, it will help you move. Accept who you are and change it if you don't like it. Like I said, don't think about things that need to be done - think about who you need to be to get it done! Breathe in, breathe out. Paper, plan, routine, go!
1. Focus on being productive rather than being busy.
2. Wake up early, make a detailed plan for each and every day, stick to it.
3. Focus on small and continuous improvements.
4. Focus on the positive.
5. Keep track of your progress.
6. Surround yourself with successful people.
7. Inspire others to be successful as well.
8. Don't procrastinate and stop looking for excuses.
9. Disconnect from the negativity in your life.
10. Visualize your goal, every second of your day.
Motivation is not magic. It does not come in a bottle. There is no little blue pill for it. You just have to decide and you have to believe it's possible for you by doing the work.
"To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It's not about winning and losing; it's about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It's about embracing the pain that you'll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge." Summer Sanders
"I hated every minute of training, but I said - Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion." Muhammad Ali
"Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday." Wilma Rudolph
"What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win." Patty Berg
"A champion is someone who gets up when he can't." Jack Dempsey
"You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round." James J. Corbett
"All the champions - you go and ask Mike Tyson or Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Lennox Lewis and myself included, and I'm sorry for putting myself in line with all the other great names - but the champion's attitude is it doesn't matter who is in front of me, I am going to conquer this person and win the fight and knock the person out." Wladimir Klitschko
"For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it." Usain Bolt
People always look at champions and praise them and look at them as some kind of superheroes. Stop pretending, they are just people - like you. The only difference is, they did the work that needed to be done. So get up and go make yourself proud.
Till tomorrow.
Tjaša