#competitive mindset

I know this post is too long. I’m writing it anyway. This post is me dealing with burnout in my 30s. One of the reasons my blog posts become so long, bloated, and unreadable is my inability to focus. After years of digital content creation, the fear should have numbed and faded by now. That monster is still there. I’d say I’m fighting imposter syndrome, but don’t you have to be successful for…

Competition has a bad reputation in some circles. Too often, it’s misunderstood as ego-driven or cutthroat. But real competition—healthy competition—is something very different. It’s not about beating others.It’s about becoming better than you were yesterday. In a recent video I shared, I talk about why you shouldn’t be afraid to compete—and how working hard and believing in yourself are…

Perfection is something we all dream of. But is the Perfectionism mindset one that is worth striving for or having?

Today we have reached the third and final mindset for competitive success: perfectionism. Before go into perfectionism, I wanted to do a short recap of the other two mindsets. First, we went over mastery. This was the mindset of simply wanting to have exceptional skills or knowledge in an area. It was not necessarily wanting to be the best, but wanting to be in the elite levels. We also…

Mindsets of Competitive Success: Mastery

I want to start off with the most basic of the three competitive mindsets that we mentioned last week: Mastery. When we first hear the word “mastery” we often think of someone who does something better than everyone else. However, that is not the case. In the sense that we are talking about mastery, the definition is possession or display of great skill or technique. Notice that it does not say,…

An athlete's career is short in the scheme of life. However, that does not mean that they do not require a gritty mindset. The pressures placed on athletes increases their need for grit. What is grit and what can impact it?

“And yet, in a very real sense, they were satisfied being unsatisfied. Each was chasing something of unparalleled interest and importance, and it was the chase – as much as the capture – that was gratifying” (Duckworth, 2018). Man, I have never felt something so true. “Why are you never satisfied”? “Happiness is not in the next place”. These and so many other phrases like them are being said to…