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Setting yourself up for the Win
“You cannot always control your feelings, but you can
control what you do with them.”
Standing at the in gate and watching
top riders enter and exit the ring is
an excellent way to see attitude in
action. It is an opportunity to watch
champions before they compete
and after, and it will be eye opening
to “seeing” a winning approach to
handling victory and defeat.
Everyone wants the win but few
know the steps to setting yourself
up to the victory in your mind long
before the opening circle or the
starting tone. Staying power mentally
can hinge on one thing…how you
handle the mishaps is far more life
changing than how you handle the
smooth victory ride we all hope for.
Great philosophers, motivational
speakers, counselors and friends
have searched for centuries to find
the key to our minds and after all
this time it comes down to the very
happening to your nerves and and influence our actions to an
essential and simple law of life. You
feelings. Before you can be in incredible depth. When we dwell
are not responsible for your feelings,
control, you have to understand and on what might happen, it might and
you are responsible for what you do
take responsibility for your actions. probably will. When we dwell on
with them. Feelings are a vital part
Victory to handling your feelings is what might happen, it might and
of who we are and certainly a vital
key most in accepting that you are the probably will. When we dwell on
part of our top riders. Everyone has
one who can make or break your ride. what we want to happen, it might
the same mirarid of feelings, some
and probably will. Our mind sets us
have learned how to turn them and
up for victory and it also sets us up
make them work FOR them and not
“When you change the way for defeat. There are five “C” words
against them.
you look at things, things that will take you down the right
change the way they look.” path to change and victory.
You can be one of those riders, and
in fact all of you are. You just haven’t CHOOSE your view of the
had the practice and determination Organizing your thoughts... competition ring...
to be in control of what is Like it or not, our thoughts control Truth is that luck doesn’t actually
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