Greetings Team,
Today Team, I wanted to talk to you about a concept I really enjoy. This concept, I believe, can help us stay motivated while avoiding frustration. The idea can be referred to as Simple, but not Easy.
You can apply this idea to so many scenarios. Let's start on the Mat. All too often in Jiu Jitsu, we have trouble executing a techinque. The challenge is, we may not know why it is not working. We know we are missing a key detail, but we don't know where to look. The best thing to do when this happens is ask your Instructor for assistance. Now here's where it gets "funny". When we ask our Instructor about what we are doing wrong, the answer quite often is "simple"! We normally respond by saying things like, "Wow, that is such common sense. Why couldn't I think of that!" Well, my friends, that's because it IS simple...just NOT easy.
This rings true in most things, doesn't it? Take diet for example. What to eat is simple. We know not to eat junk. We know to eat healthy friuts and vegetables, etc. How many of us do it? Why? Well, it's just not EASY.
Being disciplined is very tough. But, when we chose to exercise discipline, we normally get execellent results. In our a training, our fitness, and otherwise. So please remember Team, anything worth accomplishis is Simple, but rarely is it Easy. When you are having challenges, focus on the fact you need to keep excercising the discipline necessary to achieve your goals. It's not an easy road, so when you hit speed bumps and road blocks, try not to get frustrated. Frustration leads us to giving up on a worthwhile goal. That's not the trait of a Champion. Perserverance is!
I hope you got some benefit from this today!
ALL THE BEST!
COACH
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
What are Your SUCCESS Strategies?
Greetings Team,
I wanted to talk a little bit with you today about the importance of both having and also knowing what strategies you possess. We all have strategies Team, whether we realize them or not. We have strategies for winning. We have strategies for losing. Strategies for having energy in the morning, and strategies for being fatigued all day. What I would like to encourage you to do this week Team, is to explore what stategies you have today, and how you can better utilize them to get the most out of yourself.
I want you to think of a day when everything was just "Great". Things all seemed to being going your way. Nothing could get you down.....now....do the opposite. Think of day when everything went wrong. It didn't just rain, it poured. If you take a few moments, examine your moring of both days. Examine the night before. Are they're any differences in the actions you took? Did you listen to different music? Read something or not? Get to sleep early...stay up late? I believe you see where I am heading with this Team. When we follow a certain formula or pattern, we tend to get similar results each time. What if you went to bed early and woke up listenting inspiring music OR drank too many rootbeers and woke up with a hangover? Each set of actions will obviously affect your day.
So my encouragement for you is simply this. Think of times when you had the MOST SUCCESS. At work, with your family, on the Mats...and then jot down some key actions you took during those time periods. I'm sure you will start to see some patterns. Once you know your patterns, you can devise a STRATEGY. One you can apply when you KNOW you want to have GOOD RESULTS!
Now, here's the tough one. Do the same excercise with days you had no success, or "bad days". You also have strategies that give you poor results. The good news is, once you know them, you can detect when you might be applying a BAD STRATEGY...and HOPEFULLY CHANGE COURSE!
This is a great concept I learned some years back Team. It has given me a lot of benefit, and I hope it's given you some today!
ALL THE BEST!
COACH
I wanted to talk a little bit with you today about the importance of both having and also knowing what strategies you possess. We all have strategies Team, whether we realize them or not. We have strategies for winning. We have strategies for losing. Strategies for having energy in the morning, and strategies for being fatigued all day. What I would like to encourage you to do this week Team, is to explore what stategies you have today, and how you can better utilize them to get the most out of yourself.
I want you to think of a day when everything was just "Great". Things all seemed to being going your way. Nothing could get you down.....now....do the opposite. Think of day when everything went wrong. It didn't just rain, it poured. If you take a few moments, examine your moring of both days. Examine the night before. Are they're any differences in the actions you took? Did you listen to different music? Read something or not? Get to sleep early...stay up late? I believe you see where I am heading with this Team. When we follow a certain formula or pattern, we tend to get similar results each time. What if you went to bed early and woke up listenting inspiring music OR drank too many rootbeers and woke up with a hangover? Each set of actions will obviously affect your day.
So my encouragement for you is simply this. Think of times when you had the MOST SUCCESS. At work, with your family, on the Mats...and then jot down some key actions you took during those time periods. I'm sure you will start to see some patterns. Once you know your patterns, you can devise a STRATEGY. One you can apply when you KNOW you want to have GOOD RESULTS!
Now, here's the tough one. Do the same excercise with days you had no success, or "bad days". You also have strategies that give you poor results. The good news is, once you know them, you can detect when you might be applying a BAD STRATEGY...and HOPEFULLY CHANGE COURSE!
This is a great concept I learned some years back Team. It has given me a lot of benefit, and I hope it's given you some today!
ALL THE BEST!
COACH
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
The Art of Being a Round Finisher
Greetings Team,
I hope everyone is off to a Great 2011 and ATTACKING their Goals! My encouragement this week for you Team is to practice something I call the Art of Being a Round Finisher. In the Ring, it simply means to push the pace at the end of the round to secure a victory. For us as martial artists, it can take on a very deeper meaning.
Have you ever quit something? Something that is postitive for you? Did you ever quit on a worthwhile goal? Maybe just before you actually achieved it? I pose these questions to you Team to demonstrate the true power of being a Round Finisher. You hear me say often that your life off of the Mats at some point will mirror you life on the Mats. Simply meaning, the person you become in training has a direct affect on who you are at your core. If you make a point to truely make each Last Round your Best Round, you will slowly see some changes in your work ethic and attitude. If you can create scenarios in your training often where you feel like quitting and chose not to, you become a Round Finisher. Someone who will push themselves to the very edge in everything they do.
I am a firm believer that we need to train our emotional control as much as our body control. If a fighter gets hurt in a round, his abitlity to talk himself through adversity is crucial. Did you see the Frankie Edgar fight at the last UFC? He was hurt incredibly bad in Round 1 and came back to fight an amazing fight! He knows how to be a Round Finisher.
If in your training you constantly put yourself under duress, you constantly grow as a person. Every time you do more than you think you can you grow. Soon enough, your not a Round Finisher just on the Mats...your a Round Finisher in Life!
I hope you got some benefit from this today!
All the Best,
COACH
I hope everyone is off to a Great 2011 and ATTACKING their Goals! My encouragement this week for you Team is to practice something I call the Art of Being a Round Finisher. In the Ring, it simply means to push the pace at the end of the round to secure a victory. For us as martial artists, it can take on a very deeper meaning.
Have you ever quit something? Something that is postitive for you? Did you ever quit on a worthwhile goal? Maybe just before you actually achieved it? I pose these questions to you Team to demonstrate the true power of being a Round Finisher. You hear me say often that your life off of the Mats at some point will mirror you life on the Mats. Simply meaning, the person you become in training has a direct affect on who you are at your core. If you make a point to truely make each Last Round your Best Round, you will slowly see some changes in your work ethic and attitude. If you can create scenarios in your training often where you feel like quitting and chose not to, you become a Round Finisher. Someone who will push themselves to the very edge in everything they do.
I am a firm believer that we need to train our emotional control as much as our body control. If a fighter gets hurt in a round, his abitlity to talk himself through adversity is crucial. Did you see the Frankie Edgar fight at the last UFC? He was hurt incredibly bad in Round 1 and came back to fight an amazing fight! He knows how to be a Round Finisher.
If in your training you constantly put yourself under duress, you constantly grow as a person. Every time you do more than you think you can you grow. Soon enough, your not a Round Finisher just on the Mats...your a Round Finisher in Life!
I hope you got some benefit from this today!
All the Best,
COACH
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Get Fit...Stay Fit
Greetings Team,
We are 5 days into 2011...are you out of the Gate FAST & FURIOUS?!? What I mean by that Team, are you working on your Goals?! We set them, don't forget them. ;)
Some of our members have made the COMMITMENT to the 30 day Fitness Challenge. Is there a prize for the best results? Sure. But the best prize is a heathier, stronger body and mind. Whether you are doing the contest or not, I hope you ALL are working on a NEW and IMPROVED fitness level in 2011. For some of you that means losing body fat. For some, it means increasing muscle tone. And for others, it means taking yourself to an elite athletic level. Whatever category you fit in, I would like to encourage you to stay focused and driven beyond the month of January. Many of us can loose our enthusiasm as the weeks of the New Year progress. Let's work hard as a Team to encourage each other to reach NEW LEVELS this Year!!
All the Best!
COACH
We are 5 days into 2011...are you out of the Gate FAST & FURIOUS?!? What I mean by that Team, are you working on your Goals?! We set them, don't forget them. ;)
Some of our members have made the COMMITMENT to the 30 day Fitness Challenge. Is there a prize for the best results? Sure. But the best prize is a heathier, stronger body and mind. Whether you are doing the contest or not, I hope you ALL are working on a NEW and IMPROVED fitness level in 2011. For some of you that means losing body fat. For some, it means increasing muscle tone. And for others, it means taking yourself to an elite athletic level. Whatever category you fit in, I would like to encourage you to stay focused and driven beyond the month of January. Many of us can loose our enthusiasm as the weeks of the New Year progress. Let's work hard as a Team to encourage each other to reach NEW LEVELS this Year!!
All the Best!
COACH
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