Are
you prepared to make uncomfortable comfortable?
Written
by Creator of the ‘Winning minds’ programme. Kevin O’Hagan.
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The internet is full of advice on how to lose weight
quickly and getting yourself into awesome shape. You are bombarded with the
next great solution to weight lose or weight management. Nutritional and
exercise advice is coming at you from all angles.
I am not by the way a fitness PT or a nutritionist so
I won’t be wading in with my opinion on these subjects. Apex has of course
their own in house experts to deal with these subjects which they do so
admirably.
What I am going to address is the importance of mental
preparation to help you make your first steps or indeed improve matters of
weight lose, better eating, fitness or competing in your chosen sport or
activity.
The methods I am going to discuss are time proven and
an integral part of my Winning minds
programme. These methods are not just from my academic qualifications on this
subject but from my own empirical experience from training, fighting, coaching
and instructing for 40 plus years in the world of Martial arts.
In my time I have faced personally many tough
challenges. I and worked towards and smashed numerous of my personal goals.
Every time I have done this it was the right mental approach that got me
through.
This prompted me later in my career to create the Winning minds programme to coach others
to mental excellence and reach their goals and live their dreams.
It is a sad fact as Sir Winston Churchill once said, ‘Many will go to their graves with their best
song still in them.’
I am now going to share with you some of my candid
thoughts on what it takes mentally to succeed. I will look at this from the
perspective of fitness but the principles are universal. Those who know me will
know I can be quite outspoken and passionate on this subject and my language
may sometimes reflect this, I apologise in advance.
If you are not getting the results you desire in your
fitness and training it may well be down to your mental strength or lack of it?
We all spend a lot of time on the physical side of
training. We work to get stronger, lift more, run faster or further, jump
higher, hit harder etc.
Eventually you might just come around to the idea that
you need to pay more attention to your mental conditioning.
My theory is that this is all fucking ass
backward!!Hitting the gym and working up a sweat is only a small part of
reaching excellence. Physical ability will only take you so far. The fact is
you can’t train your body to excel at anything before you train your mind to be
ready to take you there.
Physical dominance can make you great. Mental
dominance can make you fucking unstoppable. A true force of nature.
In this hi - tech age a PT can measure, strength,
speed, weight, body fat. What they can’t measure is your determination,
persistence and heart.
This is where the battle is normally fought and won or
lost. You need to firstly know what you want to achieve and secondly what you
are prepared to endure and sacrifice to get it!
If you have to ask yourself can I do this then you
probably can’t.
You can read every fitness magazine, follow any online
advice, read every motivational quote and listen to the sound advice of your PT
and still not have a fucking clue about how to get where you want to be.
Sitting and procrastinating about it won’t help.
Wishing for it to happen won’t help. Dreaming about it won’t cut it. The
bottom line is that you have got to get off your lazy fucking ass and make it
happen!
If being overweight makes you unhappy then you and
only YOU can take the first step to changing this.
If you are embarrassed about your weight and how you
look then do something about it. You have to take responsibility for yourself.
Don’t look for somebody else to do it. There are people out there that can help,
guide and support you but only if you are accountable.
So stop looking to pass the blame on to somebody or
something else.
TAKE RESPONSIBILITY NOW.
Don’t look for an easy solution because there isn’t
one. Look for the mental strength you need to deal with discomfort that comes
with growth. It will get better. Note I didn’t say easier. If you are looking
for easy this is the wrong fucking place. Easy is for losers. Why would you
want easy? Nothing good comes from easy.
Ask yourself. Where are you now? Then ask yourself
where do you want to be? Then ask what am I prepared to do to get there?
Any workout that promotes the words ‘easy’ or
‘comfortable’, aren’t fucking workouts!
You don’t look for easy or comfortable if you want to
be a winner. Easy and comfortable are for wimps! Good enough isn’t good enough.
Don’t look for a million dollar return when you are
only putting dimes in the training bank. Be realistic and get real. You get
back what you put in. Simple fact.
My ‘Winning minds’ programme can help you to success
by planting the right mental attitude in you. A winning attitude. A stand up
and be counted attitude.
If you want a sugar coated nicely approach then it
isn’t for you. Sugar coated soft ass methods don’t work. They promote excuses
and let out clauses.
I can give you empathy if needed but then I expect work
and results.
My programme needs 100% honesty. No fucking bullshit.
If you can give me that I will stand shoulder to shoulder with you all the way
to your success. The choice is yours.
Every day you must to ready to do something you don’t
want to do. You must push past laziness and lame excuses. You have to break out
of yourself imposed comfort zones and be prepared
to make uncomfortable comfortable.
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