Today my friend Becca joins the Quarter Life club. She is now in Pittsburg getting her Masters and I am so proud of the growth she has made the past year. Becca lived down the street from me in Sherman Oaks when we were both living in LA. It was heaven having her live so close. Half way in between us was 24 Hour Fitness and we always motivated each other to get our butts to the gym. If we happened to walk to 24 in the afternoon, we had a particular ritual to get us amped. It was silly, but it worked.
At the time, I was reading one of my many self help books, and this particular one said that visualizing your success would help you reach your goals faster. So B and I put this thought into action. When we hit this one traffic light (aka the visualization light), where the gym was in plain sight, we would start visualizing having the best work out of our life.
While visualizing our life changing workout, we would spontaneously jog in place, pretend to wipe sweat from our brow, grunt, stretch, give each other high fives…basically do whatever to get us totally amped. People in LA like to stare at weird people, so of course we got crazy looks. Not to mention, this light happened to be at one of the BUSIEST off-ramps in LA, so multiply the looks times ten. The beauty of it was, we didn’t care. Every time we walked into that gym we were pumped and ready to sweat. 98 % of the time when we got out of the gym, we claimed it was the best work out of our life, and that was the point.
Now think if you could do this in every aspect of your life.
A nugget of info from Daniel Teitelbaum’s book:
At the time, I was reading one of my many self help books, and this particular one said that visualizing your success would help you reach your goals faster. So B and I put this thought into action. When we hit this one traffic light (aka the visualization light), where the gym was in plain sight, we would start visualizing having the best work out of our life.
While visualizing our life changing workout, we would spontaneously jog in place, pretend to wipe sweat from our brow, grunt, stretch, give each other high fives…basically do whatever to get us totally amped. People in LA like to stare at weird people, so of course we got crazy looks. Not to mention, this light happened to be at one of the BUSIEST off-ramps in LA, so multiply the looks times ten. The beauty of it was, we didn’t care. Every time we walked into that gym we were pumped and ready to sweat. 98 % of the time when we got out of the gym, we claimed it was the best work out of our life, and that was the point.
Now think if you could do this in every aspect of your life.
A nugget of info from Daniel Teitelbaum’s book:
Most of the top performers I’ve interviewed have told me that they have always been able to visualize future successes in tremendous detail…and along with that, may of them have told me that they have felt that having this trait gave them an enormous level of belief that they had the power to create their lives as they wanted.
In this day and age, almost all of the world-class and Olympic athletes are trained by sports psychologists to vividly visualize themselves winning way before they start their competition…because they know that by calling up the powerful emotions of victory before they start to play, these athletes program themselves and put themselves in the mindset to find a way to win.
Make it happen. We are only a quarter of our way there. Think about what we can really accomplish in our life time if we use our imagination to our benefit.
Happy Birthday B. Remember to do it for you and no one else. We love you.
Cheers.
P.Hobbs
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