This is Mental Fitness Fridays.

Culture.   It’s important in sports. But what if you need to change it?

It’s not simple or easy. 

Why?  

Preservation is powerful. The mental toughness traps hate change.  Feedback and criticism are essential ingredients to change. We get pigheaded when they show up. The traps see all the criticism as “you’re not good enough.”  So instead we put lipstick on a pig.

Kiss change goodbye. 
Avoid getting dirty.
Sanitize the pig.
Positively pretend.
All good always. 

Why?  It’s easier. Change means setting limits and expectations. 

Responding.
Problems solving.
Giving correction. 

Not snorting at it. 

Acknowledging struggle requires changing your own internal culture. If you see expectations and limit setting only as negative, its difficult to create change.  Looking at it like that is like bacon on my plate. Doomed.

Excellence requires the uncomfortable. If you proactively seek it, it wont be full of surprises when the game is on the line.

When it comes to change ask yourself - what do I need to change in the internal culture of me?  How will I love the discomfort of limits, boundaries and failure?  There’s only one reason you wouldn't ask yourself; you don’t think you you are capable of more.  

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