Thoughts
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Stretching yourself is vital. Not the yoga kind, though – here I’m referring to stretching your abilities in movement and training: asking more of your body and mind so that you find new levels of performance and achievement and reach your true potential. If you aren’t stretching yourself in your practice, whatever it is, you’re…
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A Reminder. More than anything, this past year has been a powerful reminder of the significance of adaptability and the value of the growth mindset. There are always things beyond your control; the vast majority of things, in fact. Don’t put your focus there. Similarly there are always things that are within your control; your…
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How you do anything is how you do everything. What this means, in practice, is that everything you do – no matter how small or insignificant it seems – matters. Why? Because it all adds to the whole. Every movement you make, every thought you have, every decision you take fires a sequence of neurons…
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Effortlessness typically only results from a long period of great effort. The best make things look easy because they persisted even when things got tough. And to sustain such effort for so long requires sufficient, ongoing motivation; passion for that thing. Without that, the effort – the initial interest – just won’t last. Motivating yourself…
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What’s the cardinal principle of all training? The single most fundamental element of making progress in any field of personal development. Consistency. If you want to get good at something, consistent practice is the only way. Yes, progress happens at different rates for different people for a multitude of reasons; you can always train smarter and refine…
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It is important to remember that not always is your own mind your friend. In fact, the mind is the most slippery of opponents, and the most cunning, and the most persistent. It will use every trick in the book to encourage you to give up the fight. It knows you better than anyone; your…
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Play will help refresh your mental processes, giving your mind a much-needed break from daily routines that can become all too monotonous and repetitive, slowly eating away at your resolve and enthusiasm for life.
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the greatest practices humans have yet created are those which train the entire individual, not just the athlete in us.
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An inevitability of positive, intentional adaptation is that you will not initially see what the solution to a problem will be. If you could, the adaptive principle would not be necessary…
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The idea of alchemy is that of consciously-driven change from one state to another: a positive process of willful improvement. And chemical change requires the, sometimes explosive, interaction of elements..
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Assuming you are wrong, about everything, is a highly effective way to ensure constant learning and continual improvement.
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Your journey will be unique, and no one knows your body and mind better than you, if you take the time to listen and understand. Go at your own pace. Forgive your own errors.
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The floor is a hard, unforgiving taskmaster. But the floor never hits you – you hit the floor: so learn to control the contact and it will soften dramatically.
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The best training programmes must be tailored for the recipient, and the best coaches will make sure this happens…
Dan Edwardes 