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The Biggest ChallengeHow to Overcome Yourself
The Biggest Challenge - YourselfIntroduction
What do all people who achieve excellence and high
performance have in common?
Willingness to push themselves beyond
their limits
Many High Performers work really hard and face adversity, discomfort and
uncertainty to achieve Success.
The Biggest Challenge - YourselfImportant
Hard Work
Adversity
Discomfort
High Performance
Success
• We should not push ourselves too far.
• The evidences suggest if we do it we can hurt ourselves badly.
• The key is intensity and training, not exhaustion.
The Biggest Challenge - YourselfBe Careful – Don´t Push Too Far!
• Many people look for interesting or unfair excuses to explain their lack of success or failure:– Bad luck.
– Being from a poor family background.
– Prejudice.
– Unfair life approach.
– Lack of opportunity, etc.
The Biggest Challenge - YourselfOur Main Enemies
• As human beings we hold two powerful instincts:– Instinct 01 - Avoid pain,
– Instinct 02 - Move towards pleasure.
• Such instincts help us to achieve mediate results.
• And in most cases, Success is a long term result that requires more than instincts.
The Biggest Challenge - YourselfWhy is it Difficult to Succeed?
• Anyone succumbs in front of temptation and it will defeat us if we expose ourselves to it for too long.
• We need to avoid any kind of risky situation that could lead us to failure or inertia.
The Biggest Challenge - YourselfStrategy 01 – Minimize Temptation
• Push yourself to discomfort only for relatively short period of time.
• Interval training is built on short bursts of high intensity exercise offset by rest and recovery.
The Biggest Challenge - YourselfStrategy 02 – Under a Short Period of Time
• Try beginning the day by focusing without interruption on the most important challenge in front of you, for no more than 90 minutes, and then take a real renewal break.
• It's much easier to tolerate discomfort in short doses.
The Biggest Challenge - YourselfStrategy 03 – Important Challenges
• Be focused: without focus you have a life with no direction.
• Be positive: a positive and optimistic approach will help elevate your view of any task you set out to achieve.
The Biggest Challenge - YourselfMain Personal Life Approach
• Be action oriented: to achieve it is important to take action, since only action creates results.
• Be aware: don’t be a horse leading a carriage.
The Biggest Challenge - YourselfMain Personal Life Approach
• Many people spend their lives without looking for ways to improve themselves.
• We know that it is not an easy task and our routine can kill our desire for improvements.
• But we need to keep in mind that improving ourselves is the fast way to achieve Success and Happiness.
The Biggest Challenge - YourselfConclusion
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