Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision. – Muhammad Ali
The champion’s body is made in the gym, but a champion is made in the mind first.
What do you want be a champion of?
What do you need to believe, first, to get you in the “gym?”
Be great in act, as you have been in thought. – William Shakespeare You have good ideas, don’t you? You have have good, worthy ideas about what you want to create, and support and otherwise shepherd into the World, right? Of course you do. * * * Take action. Begin. Step forward, take a risk…
Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out. Tennessee Williams The Japanese word Kaizen means (small and continuous) improvement. The making better of things, over time. Rather than confronting issues, problems and long-festering wounds “head-on” with a Hollywood-action-movie-like-grandiosity, what if you identified a particular component of an issue or problem or long-festering wound and took…
Fortune favors the audacious. – Erasmus Even the smallest audacaities matter. Sometimes just doing something a little daring, a tiny bit bold, is what sets you on a path that changes your life in wonderful and profound ways. Don’t worry that your boldness seems small; all that matters is that you act.
People die of fright and live of confidence. – Henry David Thoreau Fright, dread, (dis)stress, angst, anxiety . . . fear is caustic, it’s poisonous, it’s not good for your soul. Confidence, hope, joy, determination, self-assurance, faith . . . love is life-giving, it’s what feeds your soul. What matters here is focus. What you…
“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.” – John F. Kennedy You must be pro-active. Waiting for problems to occur is what many do. The vast majority of difficulties we have are days/weeks/months, or even years, in the making. When something goes wrong, we feel bad because we know, deep-down,…
Never confuse movement with action. – Ernest Hemingway We’ve all had a nice three-day weekend (well, most of us, here in the USA) and we’re headed back to “work” today. * * * As you do so, regularly ask yourself if what you’re doing is useful? Valuable? Building your skills and abilities? Bringing value to…