Who enjoyed today’s workout? After coaching three classes through it, being in the gym for another few and doing it myself, i had a pretty good appreciation for it (haha). We’ll see how my legs feel tomorrow. Keep ya posted on that one. I have to say, i had this blog in mind all day right from the time i wrote it on the whiteboard at 5:30 this morning. “Buy in of 100 double unders and 50 wall ball?! For three rounds?” Don’t worry, I was with you all in thought. Initially at least.
A good friend of mine recently gifted me an audiobook on mindset. I have to admit, it’s going to be the first “entire book” I have read in my life. Listening to them counts, right? Anyways, in the book, the author dives into mindset and having an attitude of making victories for yourself. Whether the goals be physical or mental, something in your personal life or professional life, whatever; set yourself up for victories along the way. In today’s workout, the daunting numbers of the buy-in look scary. Before I even started my warm up, I picked a rep scheme that made sense for me and did not give myself any other choice. No outs. No audibles. No options. You want to know what happened? I did it. It sucked because i was aggressive with my goals - but I did it. I set myself up for success in my mind before the workout had even began.
My alarm at 4:45am each day; entitled “Go Time!”. No snooze. Ever.
I’ve read and heard other things on making “small victories”. I am sure we all have at one time or another. It’s nothing new. There are two really common examples that I practise every day of small victories. First one, I never hit the snooze button. Seems like an innocent enough thing. The thing with the snooze button is, if you hit it, you have already lost. The very first thing you did that day was let something else (a stupid simple alarm) beat you. Don’t hit the snooze. Start your day with a victory over your alarm. It goes off, get out of bed, and turn it off. A win. The second one is I make my bed. Every day. When I get out of my bed after teaching my alarm who is boss, I neatly fold back the covers and make my side of the bed. Another simple victory. I am not some deep “rah-rah” motivational kind of guy and I am not trying to write a rah-rah kind of blog. I’m not smart enough for that kind of thing! I do know in the last 13 years of my life, I have not been late for work. Not once. That’s not a hard thing to do either, but it’s another big victory that I have every single day.
Without going crazy, take a quick second and pick two things you can claim your victories over. Feel free to use mine above. They don’t have to be big things. Just set yourself up to have victories every day in your life. Let the positivity of those small victories help create a more positive mindset in everything that you do. We won’t always win, but when those losses happen, they’re much easier if the record looks something like “100,000 - 1” in the wins and losses columns.