What is your vision of yourself? What habits do you want to improve?
Podcasts are a resource that are helping me reflect and learn the most at the moment! There are always some really amazing nuggets from what people share and listening to their words and tone certainly has a big impact on how I receive the messages. Podcasts often encourage me to think about my vision of myself and what I want to improve on.
This week I listened to a podcast with a former sprinter Michael Johnson who won four Olympic gold medals and eight World Championships gold medals in the span of his career.
He is an incredible man who has overcome adversity in personal life in later years recovering from a stroke which left him having to learn to walk again.
To read more about Michael Johnson, take a look at this website
There are many great lessons from the podcast but some of the key takeaways for me were:
- Your goals and ambitions should be personal and internal to you and not heavily influenced by what others expect of you
- You can always learn from disappointments in life, there is always something that will make you stronger and more resilient
- The difference between arrogance and confidence. Confidence is respecting your opposition by preparing as well as you can and believing in yourself and the hard work in your preparation. Arrogance is not doing the work, not respecting your competition and expecting that your talent alone is enough to achieve your performance goals..
- Do you really want to improve? Understanding our weaknesses gives us clarity on the areas to prioritise but you must be willing to reflect, find and recognise those weaknesses. Once you know them you can work on them.
- Don’t shy away from the difficult jobs, don’t leave the hard part till last, doing the hard work first is fundamental to you reaching your potential. “You will learn it sooner or you will learn it later, but you will learn it”
So ask yourself, what is your vision for yourself and what habits do you want to improve?
“Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.”
-Michael Johnson
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