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by Stan Beecham
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Elite Minds delves into the idea of success and teaches you how to train your mind to tap into its highest potential, adopt a winning mentality, embrace the gifts you’ve been given and improve mental toughness.
Elite Minds delves into the idea of success and teaches you how to train your mind to tap into its highest potential, adopt a winning mentality, embrace the gifts you’ve been given and improve mental toughness.
What if you haven’t even met your best self? Chances are, no one has! Leading this hypothesis further, it may look like no one really knows you, including yourself. However, that’s not a bad thing necessarily.
Not living your life to its highest potential is a waste of talent and it’ll likely make you feel miserable. That’s how you know that you don’t know your true self just yet. We are much more than we think we are. As humans, we have a purpose to fulfill, a mission to commit to, and talents to exploit.
However, we’re all brought to this world to fulfill this quest, not knowing how to, or even without knowing what the final destination is. One thing is for sure: until we reach that stage, we don’t really know ourselves. We rarely understand the power of a conscious mind.
Your mind is you, and that’s the only superpower you need to overcome obstacles and hardship, and therefore achieve your potential. Understanding that is the first step. And then strengthening your mind to look at the world objectively is the quest you must fulfill.
The fulfillment of all your goals is a direct result of your mind’s action over your body. When that stage is reached, you’ll finally find your true self. Anything below your best self is a mistaken identity, and you have to live with this idea in order to achieve success.
The trend of perfectionism and high-performance anxiety is taking over the world, and it’s driving people insane, unfortunately. Perfectionism makes people think that nothing they’ll ever do is good enough for as long as they encounter failure and bad days. Wrong!
Those days are a natural part of the process. No successful individual got to the top without encountering hardship on the way. Even once you achieve your goal, you’ll still have bad days. It’s not part of your persona, it doesn’t mean that you’re doing something wrong. But it’s simply a universal rule of life.
So how many bad days are we talking about? Well, everyone’s life is different and we all must face our own demons. But studies on the best athletes in the world indicate that even they have between three and six bad days a month. The best thing to do about it is nothing! Accept failure as a lesson and hardship as a natural part of life. Free yourself from the curse of perfectionism!
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Dr. Stan Beecham is a sport psychologist and leadership consultant based in Roswell, Georgia. Dr. Beecham has taken his wisdom into the business world as he develops and conducts leadership development programs for corporate clients as a speaker and presenter. Legendary coach Vince Dooley gave Beecham his start as an undergraduate student at UGA allowing him to work with Kevin Butler, the professional kicker for the Chicago Bears. Dooley later hired Dr. Beecham to start the Sport Psychology Pro…
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