I want to talk about mindset here. This past Tuesday, I had to take some Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training. Initially, I was not looking forward to it as I didn’t enjoy it and I wasn’t too crazy about the instructor as a martial artist. He didn’t seem very humble nor was he patient with his students. I remembered the last time I tested and I totally bombed on the one-legged and two-legged take downs and scored a barely passing score of 68. It reminded me of my old mathematics tests scores in high school in Philadelphia, where a D was barely passing and at the time I didn’t care. I told myself “well at least I passed.” I remember how upset my father was then. I thought it was because of the grade and that was partially true but it more because I had set that standard for myself and I didn’t want to nor felt I could do better!

I didn’t even want to try!

As the day of the training loomed ahead, I also had the added benefit of going over the training and testing with my friends who weren’t looking forward to it either and shared my disdain for the instructor. Some of my friends were taking other martial arts like Tae Kwon Do and it made me want to get back to my old school in Vacaville. Those discussions were alot of fun until one of my friends asked me, “well what’s stopping you from going again?” Because I couldn’t hit him with a barrage of tailor-made excuses, I had to simply reply. Nothing, which reminded me of an old Seinfeld episode where George kept saying, “I got nuthin’…” when someone would ask him about things he didn’t want to do because he was trying to get out of doing them.

After these conversations, I made a tiny mental shift in thinking which I didn’t share with my friends. It began with wanting to at least nail the take downs this time and in my mind I began to replay the correct way of doing them over and over. I saw myself doing them correctly during testing. This caused me to look forward to the training and actually want to do it! Tuesday came and during the testing, I nailed the take downs and as it turned out I did everything else well too because I scored 100 percent and was recommended for the Intermediate level.

Let me ask you, if you could wave a magic wand and have either a million dollars in the bank or a million-dollar mindset, which would you choose?

“Remember this, your income will never long exceed your own level of personal development. It may take a jump through happy circumstance or a lucky break — but if your own development does not quickly rise to meet that new level, it will quickly bounce back to the level where your personal development limits it, sure as if it were on a rubber band.

The same is true of your health; and of your relationships; and of your career; and of every aspect of your life. Over the long term, the limiting factor is never circumstance or fate; the limiting factor is always you. In the same way, and for the same reasons, the limitless scope of possibilities is also defined by one factor; you.” – Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge Secret to a $uccessful Life.

Check out this video with Tony Robbins – The tiniest changes yield massive results.
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