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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?

Have you ever wanted to write more consistently? In today’s article, how I improved during my 19 days writing challenge. Is one of my many challenges I set myself each month. I will explain how I got on with the challenge, what I learnt and anything that can help you with improving your writing skills.

What I learned

How I Improved During My 19 Day Writing Challenge

I’ve been writing on and off with my blog post for over a year. My goal is to be disciplined with my output of the blog post so I don’t feel overwhelmed. With this in my mind, I decided that I wanted to be 2 months ahead of schedule with my writing. So I set myself a challenge of writing a blog post a day over 19 days.

This is a great system to have so that you are prepared in case of any emergency. I learned through this writing challenge that I have the capacity to write every day.

I also learned that writing isn’t a difficult task when planned the previous day. By preparing the main title, subheadings, keywords and research in advance. Made the whole writing experience enjoyable but also free-flowing.

I also enjoyed the whole experience. The joy of writing every day helped transform my mood and focus throughout the rest of the day.

What Challenges I faced

The challenge of writing every day came more towards the end. Around the 13th day where it became more of an effort to get started. Like any other habit, you’re trying to implement. There will come a point where the new exciting feeling wears off. That’s when you need to be disciplined with your routine.

Once I got started the enjoyment came immediately back.

Another challenge I faced was the lack of time I had to prepare for scientific research to back up my writing. This led to speedier research which was ok but lacked a full depth in what I could find.

Overall the challenges I faced was minimal and was a breeze to accomplish. (Very surprised)

How I Improved

Amazingly I felt my ability to write a full blog post a day became an easier proposition. Being able to write over thousand words felt too easy towards the 8th day. I had to hold myself back from writing more. I also noticed when I was checking through Grammarly and on my Yoest SE0. My level of writing went from an average of 76 to 84 by the end of the 19-day challenge.

Naturally, I improved my writing without much conscious thought. Subconsciously my mind must have been improving to be able to achieve that outcome.

How Writing Can Benefit Your Life

From achieving this writing challenge I would say there are many benefits writing can give you. Below are just a few of how I felt during and after the experience.

A focus that led me to a state of flow
An improvement in creativity and ideas
A feeling of happiness and positivity
A better understanding of what you think

Over To You

I hope you enjoyed today’s article, how I improved during my 19 days writing challenge.

This was a great challenge to do. I thought it was going to be more difficult than expected. What really helped was the preparation beforehand of preparing the main title, subheadings and what keywords to use. Without this, the ability to just sit down and write would be more challenging.

For anyone who wants to make it a habit to write daily, improve their writing skills or get ahead with your writing schedule. I highly recommended the 19-day writing challenge for you.

A Final Word From The Future Mindset

When it comes to building mental strength. Challenging yourself is an important part of showing what you are capable of. Creating discomfort every day in life will always push you forward. It can be hard and challenging to do it alone. If you need help with consistently writing or creating discomfort in your own life contact me on adam@thefuturemindset

Hi I’m Adam