Lie #1: Quitters Never Win
Successful people do stay the course with behaviours that lead them to success. These successful people, however, also quit the behaviours that are holding them back!
If you want six-pack abs, there are things you have to stick with and others you have to quit. For instance, you will have to stick with training and eating right, but quit all the bad habits that are stopping you from getting leaner. Beside your personal fitness, you can apply quitting to your studies, your job, and your relationships and enjoy more success.
I advise removing one type of food from your diet, a few hours of television to get in an extra training session or gossiping with negative people. Start small, start today, be a quitter.
==> Quit things that are harmful
Lie #2: Knowledge is Power
You have been convinced that as long as you know something or continue to accumulate knowledge, your life are changed for the better. Not true. Your knowledge only tells you what you know. Your actions tell you what you will get. And I will be as bold to say that a person with less knowledge that takes more action will be more successful than the most knowledgeable person that does nothing. Action is more powerful than knowledge.
If you know what to do but never do what you know. it is actually worse that you know it. This leads not to power, but to guilt.
You don’t need another diet or nutrition book, you need motivation to take action and change your behaviour.
==> Applied Knowledge is Power
Lie #3: Success is Built on Success.
It is almost impossible to have success without first experiencing some level of failure. Think about how a baby learns to walk. There are a lot of falls but through those falls, getting back up and trying again does she learn to walk. The same philosophy holds true for anything that you do. You have to be ready to fall. You cannot have fear to fail. Failing is learning. Failure is ok. Giving up is not.
==> Success is Built on Failure.
Summary: You create your thoughts. Choose to create unstoppable thoughts. Unstoppable thoughts cause your imagination to turn your knowledge into unstoppable actions that overcome even the biggest failure. If you are like me, you may believe the wealth of fitness info out there today can be paralyzing. You may even think fitness or nutrition can be difficult to understand. Mastery, however, is not making simple things more complex. Mastery is making complex things simple. If you are looking to master an area of your life, you are going to need to know what to do and not to do.
Sifu Tony Child
Total Martial Arts