Let Your Thinking Help You On The Field
Posted: Saturday, March 06, 2010
by Len Strickler
Len Strickler Motivational Seminars
The recent baseball scandal on the use of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs has left a scar on the game and many of the records that fans assumed their favorite players set under their own steam. The scandal reached new proportions recently when four people, including the trainer of baseball slugger Barry Bonds were indicted on charges they were involved in an international sports-doping ring.
It's clear through all this that the athletes involved were striving to be the best at their chosen sports and made bad decisions about how to accomplish their goals. It's clear that while their motivations were good, their faulty thinking led them down the wrong path.
As a 25-year global sales executive who also holds a sixth-degree black belt, I am no stranger to the way our thinking affects the things we accomplish in life. I sum up the philosophy that has helped to become among other things, a VP of International Sales, this way.
"What we think determines who we are, who we are determines what we do. Another way of saying this is our thoughts determine our destiny and our destiny determines our legacy."
My 30-year career in the martial arts as a practitioner, teacher, and speaker coupled with a quarter century in global sales and marketing have helped me to fashion a motivational philosophy that works. It starts with believing you can change and it starts with our thoughts. Everything begins with a thought.
My motivation came from a simple stick man one of my karate instructors had me draw in a class. It had a thick line through the head to emphasize the division between the conscious and subconscious mind, and it demonstrated on paper what the successful salesman already knew: the simple repetition of a positive thought or action influences change once it seeps into the subconscious. This gave me a picture of the power of the kind of positive thinking that can influence emotional states for the better.
I adopted the power of positive thinking into his own life and was amazed with the results. With the success I found, I quickly decided that the gift I uncovered was free to anyone who could master a steady repetition of positive thoughts over the course of 20 to 30 days.
I saw that the applications were virtually unlimited and that they would work in areas from business to professional sports to personal growth. May I offer some advice for any athlete who thinks he or she needs artificial help to improve.
Change your thinking and you change your attitudes. Change your attitudes and you will change your behavior (action). When you change your behavior, you change your performance.
This Article has been viewed 158 times. (Not updated in real-time.)
No comments yet.We want your comments! If you can read this, you don't have javascript enabled, so you can't use this comment system. Please enable javascript.