#60 - Use Your Most Powerful Advantage
Right now you have a huge advantage over your competitors, and you may not even know it! You have the most powerful computer known in the history of mankind residing right there within your brain - which gives you the power to do almost anything you choose to ‘put your mind to’. (Actually, to be even more correct, science is now saying that the mind may actually reside right throughout your entire body, not just within the brain - which means that your mind and body may truly be ‘one’).
Believe it or not, you have the immense power within you to swim unbelievable times effortlessly, reduce pain to almost nothing, create total calm, peace and tranquility during the heat of competition, unleash a fuel injection of vibrant energy into your system when it needs it, and overcome injuries and illness easily and quickly. Most people just don’t use it! You, like most human beings, are only using around 1% of your mind’s limitless potential! One percent!! This is like driving a Ferrari around in first gear all day long! This is great news for you, because it means that most of your competitors don’t know how to use their mind correctly, and this provides you with an enormous secret weapon in the pool.
Your mind actually thinks around 60,000 thoughts each day, and operates very much the way a computer does - it can be programmed for success OR failure, depending on how you choose to program it. You see, your thoughts program your mind, and your mind controls your BODY. So if you want to swim consistently well in big meets, you must go right to the very ‘source’ of all your swimming - your thoughts.
So how do you do program this inner computer by using your thoughts? By taking 100% total responsibility for the thoughts you choose to think, each and every day, all day long. This means you must allow ONLY positive thoughts to enter your mind, as positive thoughts are the ‘fuel’ for success, and Olympian performances. On the other hand, negative thoughts are the perfect fuel for failure, and must be avoided like the plague if you honestly wish to succeed in your swimming! Each day you must completely block out the ‘negatives’ with an impenetrable wall of positivity.
One of the easiest ways to keep your thoughts positive is to surround yourself with positive, upbeat people, avoiding negative critical people who will only bring lack and limitation into your life. This is generally what the champions do (if you hadn’t noticed already), they ‘hang’ with other positive (and often successful) people, and this keeps them constantly focused, enthusiastic, strong and powerful in mind and body. Another is to simply make sure you are truly ‘enjoying’ your swimming each day, rather than just ‘going through the motions’, as enthusiasm is often the difference between the champions and the ‘wannabees’, and it provides valuable fuel for your mind and body.
Champions also visualize themselves being successful within their ‘mind’s eye’, hardly ever allowing negative mental pictures to enter their minds, instead preferring to imagine themselves being successful. Never underestimate the power you have within you right now. There is almost nothing out of the reach of possibility for you - the world is at your feet, awaiting your next move. You can turn any situation around, overcome the odds, and improve at an amazing rate,
by using the enormous untapped potential within your own mind. |
