What are the barriers? Negative Thoughts, self-doubt, fear, Self-comfort. All of this leads to procrastination.
The main focus is don’t let things get to you; it needs to be the martial way of thinking, having mind over matter. There actually is never anything the matter, only when you allow it to become one. Inner mindset strength is what you need. That’s what you call real strength. You see, it’s not about being able to lifts the heaviest weight and do the most reps even though that can be a good achievement for some people but more about having the mind over matter approach in our lives that we know we are able to control your self in what we do.
When becoming good at something you have to break down the barriers for the success you come your way. I know that when I was learning a new technique in martial arts, especially the big throwing techniques, you would see other people do it and I used to think to myself, there’s no way I’m going to be able to do that. The barriers popped up with me saying to myself, those guys are higher belts or they are a lot stronger than me. The problem with that kind of thinking is it holds you back from achieving anything. Yes okay maybe I am not going to be able to do a spectacular throw like some of the top players out straight away, but heck am I going to try? Yes I am! Once I started to bring those type of thoughts into my mindset I was doing those throws that were in front of my eyes watching other people do it, to in no time I was throwing over people with effective technique and throwing a lot heavier people than myself. So I had to ask myself, had I changed? Physically no, mentally yes. I just thought about the situations differently and let the mind over matter approach come into play.
Is it easy to become great in certain areas of your choice? From my experience and lot’s of people who are successful in their field I know the answer is no it’s not that easy. If it were that easy everyone would be great at the fields. But the inspiring thing is, can you become great and even better the best in what you do? Yes you can, and you will with putting in all the right action steps to succeed such as time, effort, sacrifices, passion, love, and tenacity. Those are just a handful but can take you through the door of success. All of this is the ingredient for your success. First just like I did, you need to break down the barriers and go get what you really want.
We seem to put limits on what we can actually achieve. The first thing that we need to do before even achieving anything, is start to get out of their every day comfort zones. Comfort zones are the things that we find easy to do. It would be easy for me just to stick writing one article every month or so to update my website, and yes that would be very comfortable. But am I growing as a person and stretching myself? No not at all. So let’s feed the world my knowledge once a week, now that’s an improvement. There is no growth and self-improvement in getting comfortable. So when you feel the barriers of comfort around you creeping in I want you to break them all down and go into the discomfort. Before you know it, the things were discomforting to you originally become nice and comfortable. The next stage is to continue on breaking down the limits that you tell yourself and what you hear from other people you can’t do. You can do it, and you will.
Are you comfortable right now? Break down those barriers!
Be Well
Richard Huntley
