Get Ya Mind Right Monday: Make It EASY
Sports Motivation Podcast
Niyi Sobo
4.9 • 767 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2016
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Many times we approach goals like they are "hard" or "difficult" or out of our reach.
We must approach our goals with the expectation of winning. Completely ignoring the idea of failure.
Listen to this episode and find out how you can start approaching you "hard" goals like they are easy.
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| 0:00.0 | Yo, what up? |
| 0:04.9 | Let's get your mind right Monday. |
| 0:06.6 | This weekend was crazy. |
| 0:08.9 | Had one of my best friends got married. |
| 0:11.0 | So it kind of interrupted my workout routine, right? |
| 0:14.6 | So it's Sunday night and I'm getting my workout out at night. |
| 0:19.4 | And many times I got my gym here at my home, and many times my kids come into the gym, |
| 0:25.2 | and they challenge me, right? |
| 0:28.3 | And so I used to get upset when they would come into the gym and sort of distract me, |
| 0:31.7 | but then I decided I was going to use this to my advantage. |
| 0:34.9 | And so I started telling them, yo, you can hold me to a high standard |
| 0:39.3 | when I'm in the gym. So watch me work out. And I give them permission to put pressure on me. |
| 0:46.3 | So if they see I got a set, I'll tell them, tell me like, I got to get it, right? And so my son, |
| 0:52.2 | Juan, my oldest son, was in the gym with me. |
| 1:00.5 | And I told him, yo son, my goal is three reps on this last set. |
| 1:03.9 | I had 180 pounds for my last set of curls, right? |
| 1:08.1 | Now, this was the heaviest yet for me. |
| 1:10.0 | This was going to be a new record for me. |
| 1:13.4 | And usually I just announced my rep goals to my kids to keep track and they have no idea what weight means anything right so they kind |
| 1:19.9 | of just assumed that I'm going to get it. So here I am with this goal to lift this weight |
| 1:24.6 | 180 pounds three times which is a new record for me. And guess what I did? |
| 1:30.5 | So I told my son to go, which is three reps, right? And when I told him to go, I quickly said, |
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