Everyone has opinions, it’s a fact of life, but when we let negative opinions define us, it can be the biggest hurdle we have when we want to succeed at something.
In many cases, we may get 8 or even 9 good opinions of our efforts out of 10, but it’s often the one petty, unkind and often cruel opinion of us that we focus the most on.
So if we have a range of ambitious programmes ready to go in the new year, I know some of you will naturally wonder “am I good enough?”.
I’m here to tell you 100% that you are..
Bill Bowerman’s (joint founder of Nike) main ambition was to get everyone wearing the Nike shoes to think of himself/herself as an athlete.
Most people who bought the shoes didn’t likely think of themselves as an athlete, but once they started moving more, and started doing athletic things on a regular basis, they moved much closer to becoming an athlete than before they even first thought of buying their new training shoes.
When you think of yourself as an athlete, you are likely to take your training more seriously. You are likely to want to eat better (more like an athlete), you are more likely to want you move like an athlete and not restrict yourself to all machine workouts (which never do much to turn you into an athlete who can move really well).
Not many people suddenly become an athlete from nothing, everyone has to work at it, we all have to learn better, to move as the body was intended to, to learn how to run faster, to learn better balance and coordination, to get stronger and to continuously learn new skills to make us, you got it, a better athlete.
All of these vital skills can be taught every day at the gym or online with us, practice things you may not be very good to start with, and give it enough time, and you will soon be able to make the very difficult seem like second nature.
All part of your transformation to become a good athlete.
