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Mindset Toolkit: Start Your Day With A Letter To Yourself To Boost Performance

What To Expect? 

In today’s article, start your day with a letter to yourself to boost performance. Was an idea that came to my mind to help re-focus my brain every morning by having an honest conversation with myself. We can all go to bed with the best of intentions but when we wake up the war begins again and somedays we are excited and some days we are not.

To refocus the mind on what’s important to us. Reading a letter to myself has changed my minds focus every single morning back in a forward direction. This article is written to help inspire you to have this winning technique in your life.

How To Improve Yourself Every Day?

Start Your Day With A Letter To Yourself To Boost Performance

Every day we all wake up to a fresh new day. We have the tools, the experience and the capability to succeed but one thing can always hold us back if we let it. That’s the mind.

If we let our mind dictate our decisions based on feelings in the moment, succeeding is going to be a reactive process.

How to change from being reactive is becoming pro-active. You have to take charge of your destiny and the forward direction you want to go in. I to have lived a re-active exitance based on my feelings and what comes to me. When this happens performance drops, productivity becomes slow and procrastination can soon follow.

How to change this is becoming proactive with life.

Why Talking To Yourself Helps Mental Wellbeing

If you have ever had a coach in your life. How has that coach helped in re-focusing your mind?

For me, they can bring out the best in you at any given moment. Changing the very chemicals in your brain where you can feel 7ft tall and do anything in that moment. This is all done through words. Words they have brought to life with their passion but words none the less.

It’s great to have a coach to do this. But wouldn’t it be better to be your own coach. To use words to inspire yourself every day or at any giving moment. That’s the power we all have within us. That’s the power that needs to be unlocked. To have that self-motivation every day to have a conversation with ourselves.

Our own voice is powerful. It can change how we think and how we act. Our own voice can shape our very existence in what we believe and give us the energy to execute our goals. The power of our own voice can make or break us. That’s why it’s such a powerful tool we all need to utilise and control.

How Alicia Keys Inspires Herself By Writing

I think I’m safe to say we all know who Alicia Keys is. If not check her music out she is amazing. Not only is she a famous musician. Alicia has an amazing mindset and in one of her post on Instagram. She discussed a technique she uses every morning to re-align her thoughts. Alicia writes down how she intends her day to go. She lives the day in her mind and on paper and resets the mind to focus its energy on where it should go. This is an amazing pro-active technique to allow the mind to focus.

I tried this technique myself and it’s a great way to plan your day each morning in a fun way. This also gave me the idea of how I could kick start my morning, especially if I don’t have the time to sit down and write. I envisioned a letter coming to me every morning of thoughts from myself. This is where the idea of the mentality letter was formed.

This Is Why I started Writing Letters To Myself

The whole reason I started to write a mentality letter to myself was to improve my mind’s focus and productivity throughout the day. With the countless amount of distractions pulling me in different directions. This letter to myself allowed me to regain that focus and clarity of what I needed to do every day.

How My Performance Improved

Immediately on the first morning of reading the mentality letter, I felt a rush of energy running through my mind and body. That very day I achieved a lot in productivity and also a calmness about myself. I thought this was just because it was new but every day I read this letter I had the same reaction and my performance remained high.

Think of the famous yellow brick road from The Wizard Of OZ. I went from getting distracted with all the things outside of the path I was on. To now only following the path I was set out to achieve with the wizards castle being my overall goal for that day.

So overall for me. Having a mentality letter to read every morning helped me to feel more confident, focused, clear of what I need to do, kept me grounded and gave me the energy I needed to perform.

Why You Should Start Your Day With A Letter To Yourself To Boost Performance

We all want to perform to a high standard in everything we do, We want that Laser focus to achieve our goals. But what gets in the way is our own mind pulling us in different directions or finding the most comfortable way that leads to procrastination.

This habit can be hard to get out of and much like a car if we don’t turn the key the car will not start. This is the same with your mind. For your mind to get started the mentality letter is the key to starting your mind every day and the actions you take is the fuel that keeps it running throughout the day.

  Over To You 

I hope you enjoyed today’s article, start your day with a letter to yourself to boost performance. I’m always looking for ways to improve myself and others around me. I think as humans we not that different as we think we are. We are going through the same mental obstacles each day. The only difference is that some people have better habits and techniques to overcome those obstacles.

This mentality letter has been for me that very technique to overcome doubt, procrastination and a lack of focus in what I need to do. I hope this finds you well and can’t wait to hear about your mentality letter journey.

A Final Word From Future Mindset

I want you to find time alone and sit down and write this letter to yourself. Just like your writing to your best friend.

Be honest with yourself about what you want to achieve. Preemptive strike the bad habits that you need to stop. Then build yourself up with the things you have achieved by having good habits.

This is a letter where your creativity can run wild. You can include what you’re overall grateful for, a paragraph on what you want your morning to look like and how you want your business to improve by the actions you need to take.

Whatever you write in your mentality letter. It has to be able to unlock the fire inside you by holding you accountable. But also knowing you are enough as a person. A fine balance to bringing out your best performance.

If you need any help in building your mental strength contact me at adam@thefuturemindset.

Hi I'm Adam
Hi I’m Adam

I’ve spent over 10 years coaching and mentoring people within sport and business. I have many life skills that I have developed and I want to pass these skills on so people can find their best self. I believe it all starts in the mind and I write about valuable tools and strategies to help people grow in this area.

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What Are You Willing To Give Back In Exchange To Succeed?

What To Expect? 

Do you want to know what’s stopping you from being a success? In today’s article, what are you willing to give back in exchange to succeed? I will dig deeper into finding what it takes for anyone to succeed. As well as using real-life examples to back up that giving back is essential for success. Everyone wants to succeed in life but what are you willing to give back to achieve it?

What Does It Take To Be Successful?

What Are You Willing To Give Back In Exchange To Succeed?
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To become successful at anything. There has to be an agreement with yourself over what you are willing to give back in return. This could be effort, time, focus or positivity. Whatever your willing to give will reflect in your attainment for an outcome that leads to your success.


Case Study Examples

We are lucky in today’s world to have a vast amount of people who are successful in their chosen field we can have access to.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Arnold Schwarzenegger are great examples of what it takes to become successful. Cristiano has become not only the best football player of the past decade but also one of the best footballers of all time.

He became the best player by giving back.

Cristiano at 18 gave up the home comforts of his homeland Portugal to join Machester United in cold and raining North West Of England to find success. He gave up his time to practice before and after everyone else. He chooses to give up drinking alcohol to preserve the body where now in 2021 at 36 he is still as fit as someone in their 20s.

There are many talented players but the mindset and the discipline of Cristiano are what sets him apart from others. Cristiano is a role model for young aspiring footballers but also for anyone wanting to learn what it takes to be successful. He has chosen to give up many things that some people are not willing to give up and that’s one of the main reasons for his overall success.

What I’m Willing To Give Back

Within my own life understanding what I’m willing to give back in exchange for success. Has been the difference in all of my successes and failings. I can see when comparing my success to my peers was not ability but was what I was willing to give up. It was my discipline, focus, positivity. All things in my control. It was the hard choices over the easy. The uncomfortable over the comfortable. This is still the case when I compare my progress.

Work Backwards

To find out what you have to give back in order to succeed. You have to look back on the goal you wish to pursue. It’s a proven technique that works when attaining any goal. Knowing what it will take to complete the goal. You will learn what you will have to give up to achieve it. To have a successful marriage, you might have give up your ego. To succeed to become an Olympic athlete you might have to give up your Christmas day to train. Whatever it is. Looking backwards from your goal you will find all your answers.

How You Can Do It Too

To be able to succeed at anything you do. You first have to sit down and be honest with yourself over what your willing to give up in return. Too many people look at others success with negativity because of their own failings. The only way you can the success you want is to write a list of what you have to give back. From there you will get your return.

What Happens If I Don’t Give Back

If you are not willing to get out of your comfort zone. You are going to be stuck or the start of your decline. Change only comes from giving something in return. However painful and uncomfortable it might seem now. To give up your comforts now. In the long term, your future self will thank you for it.

  Over To You 

I hope you enjoyed today’s article, what are you willing to give back in exchange to succeed? This opened my eyes to my own shortcomings in life but also when I have succeeded what it took for me to get there.

By being self-aware of ourselves and what it takes to achieve a goal. Only then can we move towards the goals we want to achieve.

A Final Word From Future Mindset

A strong mind comes from daily action on developing your mental strength. Giving time out of your day to learn something new, staying disciplined with your habits and challenging yourself to overcome your fears. It can be hard to do it alone. If you need help in learning how to become the best version you contact me at adam@thefuturemindset.com

Hi I'm Adam
Hi I’m Adam

I’ve spent over 10 years coaching and mentoring people within sport and business. I have many life skills that I have developed and I want to pass these skills on so people can find their best self. I believe it all starts in the mind and I write about valuable tools and strategies to help people grow in this area.