Goal Setting Your Most Powerful Goal Setting Tool

Your Most Powerful Weapon

Good Morning,

I have a post for you this morning from Eric Wong. Eric is an MMA conditioning coach. For anyone who has trouble setting and reaching your goals I think there is a great lesson that can be learned from this post.

Enjoy.

Joe and I were working together preparing for his first MMA fight which is coming next month…

He’s been training hard and he started training with me because he wanted to be 100% confident that he was in top shape going into this tournament… By doing so, he feels that whatever the outcome, he’ll be his best come fight night…

Atta boy Joe!!

So we started the session off doing strength training and finished with some intervals on the Airdyne… if you don’t know what an Airdyne is, it looks like this:

It’s an awesome tool for interval training because the harder you push, the more resistance is created since it’s driven by a fan…. plus it’s virtually indestructible…

I’m lucky to have scored mine for $60 used (I love finding deals)… Unfortunately mine didn’t come with the girl…

Anyway, this is NOT the most powerful weapon for MMA…

The most powerful weapon was revealed to me as Joe was in the middle of the 5th 60 second hard interval…

The interval started off like every other one, nice and strong, lots of power.

But about 20 seconds in, Joe cried, "My legs feel like Jello!"

Right after he finished saying the ‘o’ in Jello, his speed dropped dramatically and it looked like all of the gas was sucked right out of his body with a shopvac.

The rest of the interval was a bit of a drag, despite my coaching and cheesy motivational lines "Come on man, it’s all you!!" (just kidding, I don’t use ‘it’s all you’)

Once the hard interval was done, I asked Joe if he realized that right when he said "My legs feel like Jello" his speed completely dropped.

He noticed it too and for the next and final hard interval, I coached him to get ready to give 100% for the entire minute and stay positive, only thinking about the next pedal stroke.

I told him to imagine that it was the last minute of the fight and push as if the title was yours if you just gave 100%.

Guess what?

Joe killed the last interval.

Absolutely KILLED it!

It was his fastest one of the entire session!

After he finished up, we sat around and talked about it, and it’s like a new skill was revealed to him (and me)…

Now, he knows what he’s got to do to make sure he’s at the top of his game when it comes time to fight.

Here’s the truth about what it takes to be a champ in MMA:

You don’t win the fight during the fight, you win the fight in all of the little battles you have with yourself, day in, day out.

If you can harness the power of your mind to be at your best everyday, you’ll go far.

It’s making it to all of your training sessions instead of tapping out to some lame excuse…

It’s pushing yourself through grueling workouts even though you want to quit…

It’s eating properly and fighting the urge to pig out on junk…

It’s getting to bed on time instead of dicking around on the internet so you’re fully recovered for the next day of training…

And everything else that goes into being a champion.

So I’m wondering, how are your day-to-day battles going?

Are you winning, or are you losing?

Every choice you make is either getting you 1 step closer to your goals, or 1 step farther.

So start making the choices that will get you closer to your goals today!

I hope this post gave you some insight to helping you achieve your own goals regardless of what they are. Thanks Eric for sharing this.

To Be A Self Confident Person

To Be A Self Confident Person - The Power of Confidence

Someone once said that it's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. Self-trust is what gets you to push your limits and take risks. Of the many secrets to success, self trust and self confidence are foremost.

When travelling life's rough roads, your strength is sometimes put to test. You stumble along the way, get lost, and realize just how many mistakes you've made. Each experience serves to enhance your knowledge in life. With new lessons learned, you're given another set of tools to use for battle.

What will make you a winner is your ability to channel all your energy to fulfilling your goals. There are things that you simply cannot control. The outside factors that affect your decisions change, and while you try not to wilt away; you must also face up to your challenges and responsibilities.

Blaming others for the repercussions of the decisions that you made is the loser's way out. Loser. What a horrible term to use, and even worse is when this insult is directed to you. The most important factor to consider is how you'll react to these changes. In life, there are just some things that are out of our hands. You must have a Plan B for every important decision that you make, or else, a slight change can send your entire structure of cards falling down.

When you do fall down, what will set you apart from all the ordinary people is your ability to get up.

The harder you'll fall, the more you'll strive. Winners just don't quit. Even with their sore behinds, they simply get up and take these battle scars along with them as reminders of their courage and tenacity. Success only comes with some sacrifice on your end.

Whoever said that becoming successful is easy must have been dreaming because if it were, then we all would have been wildly successful by now. Winners put in more hours than anybody else. If blood, sweat, and tears have to be offered, then you should do it without batting an eyelash. And if you feel that there are just too many forces working against you, you just don't let these things break your heart. A broken heart is a shortcut to failure.

Another secret to success is to believe in your talent and abilities no matter what everybody else says. No one knows you better, and no one understands you more.

It's all in you, the knowledge and the capacity to surpass the things that hinder you from becoming who you can be. You can't please everybody all of the time, and some of these people may discourage you to move forward. You need to learn how to channel these voices out and focus on making those who give you support happier.

When you keep these three secrets to success in mind, you can't help but become the confident person that you should be. You need to know that you can do it. It may not be in the way that you wanted, but the point here is that you can. What sets winners apart from the rest is their ability to dream big and to know that their dreams can happen.

This level of accountability to yourself will produce self confidence you didn't know you had, success in every area of your life that flows outward rather than remains bottled up inside of you.

Life is a habit we are creatures of habit. That is also why sometimes we never achieve our goals. It's breaking out of the norm and we don't always like to do that.
Make the moments, and make them count.

How To Stop Being Lazy

Ways to Stop Being Lazy

No one wants to be miserable. You’d be crazy to ask for it! Ironically, some people put themselves in this awkward situation simply because they were lazy. So, how exactly does a person have to be to be considered lazy? Basically, these are people who have to depend on others to survive. These are fully functional human beings who can well fare for themselves but lack the desire to do so.

There are inseparable links between productivity and happiness, and work and prosperity. Fending for yourself is such a liberating experience. Knowing that you don’t need others to survive gives you a feeling of power. That is why people look for careers that suit them, so that they have some means to support themselves and their wants. Yet you still find too many people who live without their earned pleasure.

Non-productive individuals usually resent productive people simply because they are often being reminded of what they could be if they only applied themselves. So, rather than modeling what they should be doing, they would rather destroy what others have earned as some sort of defense mechanism. Laziness is the abdication of self responsibility. You just cannot live, prosper, and be happy if you give very little effort in everything you do. They lose so much in their lives and the loss them to attack the values of the hardworking individuals.

The lazy person has to create their own twisted delusions of self worth by constantly usurping the values rightly earned by others. The misery comes when they realize that they can never live on their own. Laziness is a social ill. But this is easily cured just by letting that person realize that there is nothing in store for them tomorrow. Their future is as bleak as the cloudy skies during a wild storm. They must realize that productivity is the building block for their very own prosperity and happiness.

Having goals and taking action will bring you a happy and prosperous life. Some have been procrastinating for years. Some even think that they are actually more productive when they wait to the last minute. That may be true in some cases, but at the end of the day, better planning and time management is still more effective no matter what they say.

If you are lazy and find yourself procrastinating often, the first step to solving the problem is to admit that you do have one. Acknowledge your desire to solve the issue and do what it takes to overcome your current situation.

Think of a way to leverage your best interest in favor of getting the task done. Offer yourself a reward if you must. Having an incentive may inspire you to push further. After all, immediate gratification seems to work wonders as a motivator. When a task is overwhelming, try to break it down into smaller jobs so that everything will seem more doable. Then get organized and practice time management. Set a schedule and stick with it. And if you fall back into the same habit, learn to forgive yourself and get back on the wagon. You can do it. All you need to do is believe in yourself.