If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced
Barrie Davenport
The last 500m of the run are where races are lost and won. I compete for more than an hour, but it’s those last few seconds and minutes where the race is really ON. Nobody at a high level race hasn’t trained hard. Some people will tell you the winner of the race is the fittest, but that’s often not the case. In those tight finishes, it’s the person who has the toughness, the grit, the self-belief who wins the race.
How do we get strong?
The winners of the races are the people who have put the blocks in place to build a strong mental foundation. But they don’t just sit there staring in the mirror saying “You’re a good athlete.” and hoping it’ll stick!
They work hard. They build a physical foundation so that when they get to the start line they have 100% belief there is nothing else they could have done to get there and be more prepared. They go through the weird and whacky rituals that mean success to them. They put their battle braids in place, have their pre-race pedicures with their nation’s colours and line up on the start line saying “Look good, feel good, race well.”
And that’s the key. Mental strength isn’t just a separate state of mind. It’s not something you work on in isolation to the rest of your life. You’re not going to just wake up one day and love who you see in the mirror and suddenly be the great success you dreamed of. It takes time, work and more than anything, attention to the other areas of your life that are out of balance.
Help yourself!
You can start at the bottom. You can heave yourself out onto a hard journey alone. It will take you a long time. You will struggle. You will probably fail. Or you can seek support, mentorship, expertise of the people who are already building strength and confidence. You can ask someone to tip the balance in your favour, to take the gradient out of the slope of that mountain.
At the Wonder Clinic, I help active men and women to look AND feel like winners, by balancing physical, aesthetic and mental strength. All I do, is help to gently tip the scales in your favour and sit back and watch you climb the rest of the mountain yourself, with ease.
You see aesthetics isn’t an empty, vacant pursuit. It is based on your mentality. There’s a problem with how you feel. You don’t feel yourself, you feel empty, dull, lifeless. Aesthetics helps to give you a little boost, so that you can start owning your own little voices and encourage yourself to get physically and mentally strong too.
If you want to know more about how I can restore your balance with the subtlest of tweaks, get in touch!
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