Inside the Mind of a Great Competitor: Commitment - SPARTAN MIND ep. 026
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2019
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Summary
Great competitors stay committed. There will always be excuses, always a reason to quit, move on to something else, or put it on the shelf for later. Great competitors commit. They move away from language like, "I'll try", that immediately gives them a way out, and they use more declarative statements like, "I will." Having the mindset of completion allows them to move forward with stronger intention and will.
LESSONS:
- Commitment is a key element to becoming a great competitor.
- Try to shift away from words that give you an out and become more proficient in the language of commitment.
- Commitment isn't about perfection but it is about showing up and remaining on task.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we're talking about commitment. |
| 0:02.8 | Hey Spartans, it's Dr. L. Here, your chief mind doc was Spartan mind, part of the Spartan Up podcast family. |
| 0:14.0 | So today we are on element three of our five part series |
| 0:18.5 | in talking about what makes the minds of great competitors? |
| 0:23.3 | And number three is that great competitors stay committed. |
| 0:28.2 | They embrace commitment. |
| 0:30.3 | It's never all try. It's always I will. |
| 0:34.0 | Now, I will doesn't always look perfect. |
| 0:37.0 | It doesn't always look smooth, clean. |
| 0:40.0 | Sometimes you've got mistakes in there, |
| 0:42.0 | but there's always that commitment, right? |
| 0:44.0 | There's always that dedication to whatever goal they've got in front of them. |
| 0:48.6 | It's not, okay, I think I'm going to try. |
| 0:51.0 | It's I will and they move forward with that. So shift your language from |
| 0:55.7 | I'll try to I will embrace the commitment and that makes number three of great competitors. |
| 1:04.0 | If you like what you hear, spread the word. |
| 1:07.0 | Tell your friends, subscribe and review on iTunes, or comment on YouTube. |
| 1:12.0 | Then come tell us what you think. |
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