11/10/2023
I Used To Wonder if There was something wrong with me
Often in my life I would experience these highs then followed by intense lows.
Ideas 💡 would flow out of me as if I were manic. I could binge study for 2 weeks straight and master any new topic.
But when it wore off I would feel tired and burned out.
The same in my athletic career.
Looking back, what I can say is that when I was in the zone I was untouchable.
When I wasn't , I felt like a fraud who somehow tricked everyone into letting him on the team.
What I was experiencing was self doubt in my lowest moments & mastery in my best moments. When I was in the zone I could see 👀 everything as if it were slowed down & I was operating at a different speed than everyone else. Very similar feeling being on the field.
Some call this being in a flow state. There are increases of Dopamine to your brain 🧠 in 🎨 a state of flow.
Think 🤔
Reading 📚
Art 🎨
Sports
Acting
Singing
When we are not succeeding like we are used to we lose hope of the ability to succeed. Our brain triggers negative emotions.
Those negative emotion turn to thoughts. Our thoughts drive our actions. Our actions drive our results.
When I looked at when I was winning in life vs losing in life, I realized you can reconstruct habitual behaviors to wire you for success.
First, by controlling your daily thoughts.
Second, by controlling your daily actions
Third, by tracking & measuring your results
Yes, this seems like a very analytical way of looking at your life, but I promise you this.
Life works in Expansions & Contractions
You will have winning seasons & losing seasons. How you control your mind, habits and actions will determine how long each will last.
Read that again.
If you're winning right now, keep crushing that s**t and know that you deserve all the success coming your way.
If you are in a losing season right now, snap out of it and get to work habitually creating the person you want to become.
Losing is a mentality.
The longer you remain a victim in your story, the longer you will feel like a loser.
This is why even when I'm losing I am always still winning because I know the secret.
My winning season is coming and my daily actions can make that happen now if I decide I want to.
So decide you want to & stop ✋️ giving everyone and everything the power 🔋 over your story.
You have the pen 🖊 so start writing MF 👊🏾