CRUSHING YOUR LIMITATIONS

Talking to yourself whentraining either drives you to achieve more or stops you in your tracks.To stop the vicious cycle, let’s rephrase the way we talk. Aside from using the positive language and self-talk that you know about, I’m going to challenge and shift your mindset.

When you ask yourself a question with an answer already in mind,your answer only recalls what you know and you’re likely to be hoping the answer will validate your current position. If you rephrase your question,you gain a different awareness to other possibilities (i.e. how to raise the bar)and leads to asking yourself other questions that cut through to the hard-hitting honest answers.I encourage you to ask open-ended questions withoutan answer at theready. Instead of starting a question passively with the words how or why,rephrase it to something like this, “What would it take to ...?” This makes you workshop outside the box to get adifferent answer.

So if you ask yourself, “What would it take to create extra time in myday to train?” You have to give yourself a tough, solid answer such as,“I will have to wake up an hour earlier to train before work,” or “I will have to start work earlier so I can leave work earlier to train.” This is the reality of your dream starting to take shape. You won’t change if nothing changes in your life

Be proactive and specific in your questions, “What would it take to do one more rep? What would it take to beat my personal best?” This unconsciously issues a challenge to yourself that fires your body up to achieve one more!

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way.  If you don’t,you’ll find an excuse.”— Jim Rohn