Develop the mindset of a champion!

Welcome to Active Life Matters blog!  This blog has been created to help you become more successful, more certain, more confident in aiming for and achieving your results!

How would you like to maximise your results and achieve your dreams - in business, life and health?  You need the mindset of a champion!

So how do you get the champion mindset? Well, whether we're talking sport or life in general, the following are equally relevant:

Make decisions! - the more proactive you are about your life, the more alive you will feel.  Successful, proactive people make more decisions every day - about your training program, how you're feeling, which route to take, how many hills/repetitions/hours.........and they are also willing to:

Make mistakes - be willing to mess up!  People who aim to get everything right invariably end up doing very little, because they perceive too much risk in action.  Give up perfection - aim for steady progress and improvement, and view all mistakes as feedback to inform your next move.  At the same time:

Have more fun and play! - see your life and choices as play, and you will experience it differently.  Take yourself less seriously, and focus on what might be, rather than what 'should' and 'needs' to be.  Enjoy the journey!  At the same time.........

Raise your standards - the key to great performance is to expect and demand more of yourself.  The better you get at this, the better your quality of life will be.  Life is not about 'getting by' or 'good enough'.  It is about you giving your best, risking failure, playing at 100% and then doing it again the next day!  And in a similar vein:

Challenge yourself every day!  Don't settle for less, or 'close enough'  - this will slowly erode your results, and then your confidence.  However you also need to be realistic about your targets, so:

Focus on your strengths - Champions believe in themselves because they focus on what they are good at and what they like about themselves.  People who have low self-confidence focus on their weaknesses and where they aren't strong, and then wonder why they feel down!  So identify your strengths clearly, and use them to maximise your success.  Also:

Focus on what you can do - Champions naturally focus on what they can control and influence, and leave the rest alone.  This doesn't mean that you don't set targets and aim for more - it means you're taking charge and appreciating your strengths and abilities, and being clear about where you're going and what you're going to achieve.  Above all:

Be a leader - be the person you admire most!  Inspire and lead others through the example you set every day.  And whilst you are doing all of the above:

SMILE!  Share as many smiles as you can with as many people as you can.  As well as exercise, smiling activates chemicals in your body which will help you to feel better!

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Acknowledgement to Sharon Pearson, CEO of The Coaching Institute for some content in this article.