A Giant's Perspective

"If Arnold Schwarzenegger, Oprah Winfrey or Lance Armstrong got into this business, who would bet against them reaching the top? Nobody right! Why? Because a bet against a champion is a bad bet."
- Steve Siebold

Those are the words Mental Toughness expert and author Steve Siebold started with when he adressed a convention of 12,000 independant financial coaches in Los Angeles, CA last week.

Mr. Siebold then went on to some of the characteristics and underlying beliefs that make up the mind of a champion.

Most of what he talked about, I had heard many times before. I had even tried to implement some of it to change my own mindset, with varying degrees of success. Sometimes though, we just need to be in a different state of mind to really get it, or to hear it said or demonstrated in a different way by someone else.

Whatever the case may be, that morning in a gigantic conference room in downtown L.A., I felt like I GOT IT!

It was the second day of a four day convention and I was ready to go home (I'm glad I stayed because we had awesome speakers the rest of the week but at the time, that session blew me away). That's all I needed! That was it! From now on, all I had to do was read, study, and integrate what I learned from my new book "177 Mental Toughness Secrets of the World Class" to change my beliefs and thinking from middle-class thinking to those of a world-class champion consciousness.

Anyone remember a time in their life where they thought they had found the answer that could completely transform your life?

Yeah, me too.

And I was right pretty much every time.
All of those things I learned and kept learning would completely transform my life if I could really become a student of the principles and really apply them and integrate them until they became a natural part of who I am.

It's tough, but I know that if I focus, take it one day at a time, and give my efforts time to compound instead of expecting it all to change overnight... I will succeed.

Take exercise for example. I developed a passion for becoming my best physically in my early teens, and only now, almost a decade and a half and thousands of dollars in books, DVD's, CD's, classes, and in-the-field-training and competing later, am I finding myself training consistently and gaining momentum in the direction I want to be heading in.

That may sound like a long time, and it is, because my total growth could probably have been accomplished in about 2 years if I had been moving in a straight line. Instead, I found myself taking 1 step forward and 2 steps back, followed by 3 steps forward... moving forward, then sliding back... making progress, then seemingly regressing or hitting a plateau that won't allow me through... stagnating... kinda frustrating sometimes.

But that's just the way life is.

And you would never learn everything you needed to learn to become the person you really want to become if you hadn't gone through all of those experiences before.

The question is, are you ready and willing to learn and grow no matter how uncomfortable or afraid you might feel in the process? Are you willing to learn how the champions think and be coachable enough to actually make the changes to become one yourself and stick to them? Even if they don't pay off for you right away?

I've made a decision for myself:

I not only have a burning desire to become the greatest at something in this world and be recognized for it, I want to be more than a champion, I want to be a Giant, in my domain.

Am I one now? No, not even close.

Am I willing to learn and practice and do whatever it takes (ethically and legally) to become one of the Giants of this world? Yes.

Those who know me personally or professionally will see the transformation take place over time. It will not happen overnight but it will happen... because I will never quit... I will continue until it is done. I will never settle for anything less than being the greatest that I can be.

That's my promise.

Do YOU have something you want to achieve?
Are YOU ready and willing to make such a promise to yourself?

This is your life we are talking about.

I choose to LIVE!

Do you?

Copyright © Charles Begin

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