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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?

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

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.

What To Expect

In today’s article 3 ways how playing sports can make us better mentally, we will discuss the positive impacts sports can have on the mind. I will discuss the impact it has had on me but also on others as well. Then you will get my 3 favourites of how playing sports can make us better mentally. ENJOY!

How Sports Can Change Your life

I wouldn’t say I grew up in a sports family. Early on I think through friends I unlocked a passion for sports. I grew up playing and watching all the different sports.

The love of football was huge but also I had a keen interest in Formula 1 and rugby. I couldn’t get enough of the Olympic games.

Now into adulthood, I’m still just as passionate. It’s amazing how sports can bring you so much joy, drama, inspiration from just watching. The sense of community can be felt when watching with others whether that be in your home, down your local pub or in the stands.

Watching is one thing, playing is completely another. The skills you learn both mentally and physically are life-changing. It has helped develop my confidence in myself, respect for others and a drive to be successful.

How Sport Impacts Everyone

Not only me but it has developed millions of people around the world to change their lives. Anthony Joshua said boxing got him away from potentially going down the wrong path in life where now he inspires a new generation of kids with his sports mindset, talent and being a great role model.

Even my sons Sensai in karate inspires him to become not only a good martial artist but also a mentally healthy person too.

There are countless stories all around us of the life-changing aspects that sport can give us whether that be health, finances or sense of purpose. But more importantly, it can help us develop a healthy mind. This is what I want for my children.

For you, the reader I hope this unlocks something within you, where taking up a sport you feel passionate about, can help continue your mental journey. The best thing about sports it doesn’t just have to be team-based sports but it can also be individual too whether that’s doing yoga which I now love or doing weight lifting.

My biggest advice I could give is to pick a sport you like and get to it. The rewards far out way anything that could stop you from doing it.

3 Ways How Playing Sports Can Make Us Better Mentally

5 ways how playing sports can make us better mentally — Photo by Max Winkler on Unsplash

1. Playing Sports Helps With Discipline

Discipline is an important skill to learn. It helps you overcome procrastination, laziness and going back on promises. Self- discipline helps you succeed in life at controlling your emotions and habits.

Sports Is definitely a place where you learn this. You just have to look at Olympic athletes, where you have to be disciplined for 4 years for the chance to go to the Olympic games. They have to be disciplined with their training sessions, food intake and overall lifestyle to attain their pinnacle goal.

That’s why athletes, when their sports life is over, can easily transfer the skill of being disciplined into their family and the business world. You can see that in ex-sports stars like Michael Jordan, David Beckham and you could even say Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson too.

There’s no doubt discipline plays a big part in their success within their sport and outside of it.

2. Playing Sports Helps With Confidence

Sports can change someones whole personality in an instant. A bit of competition can change the quietest mild-mannered person into the loudest and aggressive person. A famous example in football was Paul Scholes who was two completely different personalities on and off the pitch.

I have experienced this myself where another side of my personality comes out. I utilise this personality trait to good use in my own life too. It has allowed me to be confident in places where my introverted self wouldn’t do so well.

What sport can do, is teach you a lot about who you are and what you’re capable of. You just have to look at UFC MMA fighters or any Mixed Martial Arts where you learn to fight. Rational thinking you would expect this to lead to more fighting and becoming unruly but on the whole, it has the opposite effect where you’re so confident in your own abilities it means you don’t have to fight to prove yourself. You can be confident enough in your abilities not to.

Sport can definitely do a lot for peoples confidence in a whole array of outcomes that we don’t have time to discuss here.

If you want to build confidence yourself, your child that’s a bit shy or someone coming back from a horrific injury. Sport is the place you build that confidence back and unlock the winner within you.

3. Playing Sports Helps With Happiness

For your mental health, being happy can have tremendous benefits on your mind. You just have to ask yourself how happy are your children when they’re active and playing sports and how happy was you?

From my experience, I was ultra happy with smiles as wide as the milky way. When getting older into adulthood. Life changes with work and extra responsibilities which can get in the way of participating in sports.

This has to change as there’s a lot of adults struggling with mental health problems like anxiety, the negative side of stress and depression.

What can really transform our mood is partaking in sports activities where we build relationships with others and show ourselves we are capable of so much more than we realise.

Happiness is an important part of our life and we need more of it than ever before in today’s crazy world.

Sport is definitely one part of the answer to our happiness problem.

What Do You Think?

Thank you for dropping by to read 3 ways how playing sports can make us better mentally

I’ve only listed 3 positive impacts sport can have on the mind but the list is far greater than what I’ve written. Sport can bring out wonderful aspects in all of us. It unites people and gives people a purpose.

Hopefully, this has inspired you to keep going with sports or take it back up again.

Build that mental strength and stay mentally happy!

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