Creating your best self!

Creating your best self as an athlete is easier than you think.

It has been great watching the staff take out their old takkies and begin to walk around the track each afternoon. I envy you and hope to join the group real soon. The idea of getting back into shape got me thinking about the creative powers of visualization, you are using your imagination to make-over yourself, literally.

With the seed of your imagination, you can transform any element of your performance - your skills, your shape, even your confidence. As the saying goes, "Little hinges swing big doors." Of course, creating your best self does not mean manufacturing something fake. By showing the world that you are working hard at your health is a positive sign to the learners at the school.

It also means finding your authentic athletic self and allowing it to be expressed. Time has taken its toll on a number of our bodies and the wear and tear is showing mostly on my face and belly. Finding your self is real important and with each passing year we need to reanalyse or health, body shape and fitness.

To start is the greatest problem and how we overcome that barrier will determine our strength of character, which we must use each day in the classroom. The learners can become your biggest competitors.

A lot of aspiring athletes think they need to trash talk and get into the heads of their competitors to win. A classic example of how you handle your biggest competitors. Rugby coaches would shout at the players how much they hate the opposition, hoping this would somehow ignite a fury of success on the field. Imagine if we used this method on our learners in the classroom.

Trash talking, talking down too or arguing with the learner rarely brings out their best self. Show them by training and taking charge of your life.

See you on the track, real soon!