"You can often succeed with limited talent but never with limited attitude. Performance begins in the head, and successful people think differently from unsuccessful people."
- Bill Beswick
Bill Beswick is a sports psychologist who helps athletes, teams, and coaches improve their performance by helping them overcome mental and emotional barriers.
He says sports psychology is about dealing with your own doubts, fears, and anxieties so you can maximize yourself and your potential. It's about letting the positive you defeat the negative you. He said it's a battle of you vs you.
Every day when we wake up, we get to make a decision about who we are going to be. Every day, we choose if we are going to be a fighter or a victim.
Fighters find a way, and victims find excuses.
Bill asks the athletes he works with three questions:
1 - What do you want?
2 - How badly do you want?
3 - How much are you willing to suffer?
A lot of people are unclear about what they want in life. Bill says we are writing our life story every day, but we don’t think about it enough. Achieving big goals comes at a big cost, and the best are willing to work enormously hard, sacrifice enormous things, and suffer every day to become champions.
Every day you have to choose who you want to be and what you want to do.
Reflection Question: Are you a fighter or a victim, and who do you want to be, what do you want to do, how badly do you want it, and how much are you willing to suffer to make your dreams a reality?