RH Episode #16 - The Athletes Second Chance
04/07/20 • 41 min
Your second chance is being served to you on a plate. What are you going to do, survive or thrive?
Athletes often tend to miss the importance of moments that contain opportunity. Often in hindsight we identify moments that provided key opportunity’s that we missed, because we were too busy sitting in judgement and making ourselves victims of the situation.
This moment is calling for a key decision, perhaps one of the biggest in your athletic career, what are you going to do with this time? Make yourself a victim of the situation or find a hidden opportunity?
So this weeks podcast is devoted to using this time to develop a strength and a skill that has been hidden from your view in all the noise. The unlimited potential of your own internal focus provided to you courtesy of your own awareness.
The mind is a narrow corridor of your awareness, you have an opportunity to vastly expand its capacity for focus and clarity in a time where the world has vastly slowed down.
Self awareness in athletic terms can take you far beyond the limitations of mind and thought into the twilight zones of becoming one with what you do. You move from self judgment to self awareness.
Awareness is always present, it’s level of effectiveness depends on how much attention you are able to pay to what’s really happening in your experience, rather than what the mind is projecting onto your experience.
When we talk about mindset we pay very little attention to the fact that what we are really talking about is taking away the layers of mind based illusion that covers and clouds our awareness, a virtual removal of the rubbish to expose the real.
An effective “mindset” is in fact a lack thereof, a subtraction of the weight and the noise to allow the innate intelligence to flow into your direct experience. You can’t increase awareness with more thinking, the word mindset is an oxymoron.
So here’s the skinny, not just in terms of sport but also life.
Our identification with the mind is the root of the problem. We believe our thoughts before we believe our experience, it is utterly backwards!
We fail to realise that our eyes are like projectors onto this world. We need to raise our awareness of what we project, because we don’t realise that we are the creators of this reality. I don’t take this lightly, this is not a small opportunity for athletes, it is hands down the greatest. Nothing you can think about or do physically even gets close.
Don’t overlook the power of the awareness In the heart. Your heart is a muscle. With awareness you can learn how to harness its power, It’s not just a physical point in your body that pushes out blood. It’s the centre of who you are and when we are unaware we don’t see or feel its ability to overcome adversity and challenge.
The world is giving you a pause in your crazy world to find something new about yourself that could revolutionise the way you train and race.
Try and see now before it becomes hindsight, this is your chance to work the mental edge hard. If you can get through this, you can get through anything!
You’ll never get an opportunity like this again, you make a choice to endure it or thrive as a consequence of it. Seriously this time is giving you the quiet reflection needed to make substantial gains, don’t piss it away filling it with noise.
Gilesy.
Grants Website-
https://www.inconvenientminds.com.au/
Your second chance is being served to you on a plate. What are you going to do, survive or thrive?
Athletes often tend to miss the importance of moments that contain opportunity. Often in hindsight we identify moments that provided key opportunity’s that we missed, because we were too busy sitting in judgement and making ourselves victims of the situation.
This moment is calling for a key decision, perhaps one of the biggest in your athletic career, what are you going to do with this time? Make yourself a victim of the situation or find a hidden opportunity?
So this weeks podcast is devoted to using this time to develop a strength and a skill that has been hidden from your view in all the noise. The unlimited potential of your own internal focus provided to you courtesy of your own awareness.
The mind is a narrow corridor of your awareness, you have an opportunity to vastly expand its capacity for focus and clarity in a time where the world has vastly slowed down.
Self awareness in athletic terms can take you far beyond the limitations of mind and thought into the twilight zones of becoming one with what you do. You move from self judgment to self awareness.
Awareness is always present, it’s level of effectiveness depends on how much attention you are able to pay to what’s really happening in your experience, rather than what the mind is projecting onto your experience.
When we talk about mindset we pay very little attention to the fact that what we are really talking about is taking away the layers of mind based illusion that covers and clouds our awareness, a virtual removal of the rubbish to expose the real.
An effective “mindset” is in fact a lack thereof, a subtraction of the weight and the noise to allow the innate intelligence to flow into your direct experience. You can’t increase awareness with more thinking, the word mindset is an oxymoron.
So here’s the skinny, not just in terms of sport but also life.
Our identification with the mind is the root of the problem. We believe our thoughts before we believe our experience, it is utterly backwards!
We fail to realise that our eyes are like projectors onto this world. We need to raise our awareness of what we project, because we don’t realise that we are the creators of this reality. I don’t take this lightly, this is not a small opportunity for athletes, it is hands down the greatest. Nothing you can think about or do physically even gets close.
Don’t overlook the power of the awareness In the heart. Your heart is a muscle. With awareness you can learn how to harness its power, It’s not just a physical point in your body that pushes out blood. It’s the centre of who you are and when we are unaware we don’t see or feel its ability to overcome adversity and challenge.
The world is giving you a pause in your crazy world to find something new about yourself that could revolutionise the way you train and race.
Try and see now before it becomes hindsight, this is your chance to work the mental edge hard. If you can get through this, you can get through anything!
You’ll never get an opportunity like this again, you make a choice to endure it or thrive as a consequence of it. Seriously this time is giving you the quiet reflection needed to make substantial gains, don’t piss it away filling it with noise.
Gilesy.
Grants Website-
https://www.inconvenientminds.com.au/
Previous Episode
RH Episode #15 - Opportunity, the Light in the Dark
The viral shift.
It’s not about answers, it’s all about the questions!
As a species we have spent an inordinate amount of time and effort trying to make stable that which is by nature unstable.
Our main lesson here is that nothing in physical life is stable, even reality.
Reality is in fact as solid as tissue paper. I’d like a dollar for every time I have heard the words, surreal, weird, eery, strange, come out of peoples mouths lately.
The fabric of reality can tear so very easily, it bends, morphs and changes shape, and much like that tissue paper reality is the nature of our thinking, it changes shape at every moment. Banking your future on thinking is banking your reality on chaos. There is nothing stable or rational about thinking in a panic.
Collectively we have an opportunity to move into flow with the planet we live on and it’s dynamic nature. Or we can stay the same!
That opportunity though is a very personal and individual process of reflection and introspection. Am I going to move out of this the same way I came in?
The remedy to all bad dreams is simply to wake up, right now life is slapping us awake. We now make the deeply personal choice to wake up or continue to take part in the bad dream.
If you want a shift in the world, the first place you have to make it is inside yourself, otherwise life will do it for you, as we get dragged through one warped reality into another.
If you are feeling challenged, uncomfortable, anxious, frustrated, depressed, fearful, apathetic or just plain confused, this one is ode to you.
Gilesy.
Grants Website-
https://www.inconvenientminds.com.au/
Next Episode
RH Episode # 17 - Interview with Shawn Smith Athlete Manager
This week we have an interesting interview by Grant Giles with Shawn Smith, athlete manager and chief editor at Triathlon news website www.trizone.com.au.
In this podcast Shawn speaks openly about athlete management and shares the benefit of his experience.
We speak to the do's and dont's of building and maintaining athlete/sponsor relationships, and the importance of an effective coherent support team.
We also cover some ground from each stakeholders perspective, and the importance of gluing the whole thing together, so it becomes an add for all concerned, rather than a drain.
Shawn shares his advice for budding athletes and their support network, and we speak to the power of patience and resisting the temptation to bite off more than you can chew.
Many athletes rush the brass ring. There is often this propensity toward "making hay while the sun shines". We speak not only of the damage that this limited thinking can do to an athletic career, but also how that thinking and action can stunt your growth as an athlete. A stable financial career requires stability of mind and action, with a long haul overview being the path to longevity as an athlete.
Often the crush to make the bucks leads an athlete to a feast or famine mentality, that can mentally cloud an athletes path. This mindset often leads to rash decisions in the spur of the moment that make their development patterns messy and unsustainable.
Obviously an anxiety around the length of ones career leads to a perception of lack, however that perception is the same perception that rides an athletes back at races and makes it difficult for them to focus. Pressure wears many masks!
Shawn pulls the thing apart for you so you can get a bird's eye view into the blurry world of keeping everyone happy including yourself.
If you are an athlete, a coach, a supporter or part of an athletes family or support network, this one is aimed at you.
If you simply love the nature of sport, here is a view you don't often get to see from the sidelines.
Grants Website-
https://www.inconvenientminds.com.au/
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