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Mind Candy
The document discusses concepts of courage, uncertainty, mistakes and personal growth from several perspectives. It draws from the works of Don Miguel Ruiz on the "4 Agreements", OSHO on defining courage as facing fear, and lessons from authors on developing an unstoppable mind, living with passion, and what makes great athletes. Key ideas are to face fears and the unknown with courage, learn from mistakes, and do your best every day through hard work and visualization.
Mind Candy
- 1. Mind Candy Developing anUnstoppable Mind
- 2. 4 Agreements byDon Miguel Ruiz • Be impeccable with your word • Don’t take anything personally • Don’t make assumptions • Always Do your best
- 3. Agreement # 1 •Be impeccable with your word – If you say you will do something, do it – Your word is EVERYTHING – Try to tell the truth 100% of the time • Own up to lies
- 4. Agreement # 2 •Don’t take anything personally – Take things in stride – Use criticism as opportunity to grow – Laugh!
- 5. Agreement # 3 •Don’t make assumptions – You don’t know everything – Let the game of life play out – Communicate everything to avoid misunderstandings and drama
- 6. Agreement # 4 •Always Do your best – Changes from moment to moment – EFFORT – Any circumstance • Do your best and you will avoid self-judgment, self abuse, and regret
- 7. Courage by OSHO •Courage defined: – It is not the absence of fear, rather it is the total presence of fear with the courage to face it – Fear is never going to leave you • Your ability to master your fears is the ability to master yourself • Master yourself and you will master life’s passions
- 8. Main Ideas: Knowledge+ Action • Facing uncertainty? – Celebrate! – Instead of hanging on to familiar, the known • Learn to enjoy uncertainty as opportunities for adventure and deepening understanding of ourselves and world around us
- 9. Courage • Everyday, innercourage – Focus on daily courage – Courage to change when change is needed – Courage to embrace the unknown in spite of our fears – Courage to stand up for your own truth • Even against opinions of others (HATERS as the culture says)
- 10. Courage: Making Mistakes •Committing new mistakes – Learn what a mistake is & – How NOT to commit it • Knowing what is error – Brings you closer to what is truth – Individual exploration – Don’t depend on other’s conclusions about situation, circumstances, and/or life
- 11. Commit Mistakes EveryDay • WHAT? • Dynamic, flowing results – Commit as many mistakes as possible – Remember but ONE thing – Don’t commit the same mistake twice
- 12. Hero vs. TheCoward • “In the beginning, there is not much difference between the coward and the courageous person. The only difference is, the coward listens to his hears and follows them, and the courageous person puts them aside and goes ahead. The courageous person goes into the unknown in spite of all the fears.” – Courage, p.1
- 13. Understanding • You cannotbe truthful if you are not courageous • You cannot be loving if you are not courageous • You cannot be trusting if you are not courageous • You cannot inquire if you are not courageous • Hence courage comes first and everything else follows
- 14. Challenges • “The morealive the person, the more problems there are. But there is nothing wrong in it because struggling with problems, fighting with the challenge, is how you GROW.” • Life is risky, death is not
- 15. Accepting Death andLosing Your Ego • “Most people die clinging. They don’t want to die and one can understand why they don’t want to die. Only at the moment of death do they recognize the fact that they have not lived.”
- 16. Drop the EGO •Ego must be dropped • Gather courage and SHATTER it on the floor • People go on feeding it in a million ways not knowing they feed their own hell
- 17. Choices • How doI decide? • You are not able to make the right decision – Make your decisions Right • Always remember – Whenever there is a choice, choose the UNKNOWN, THE RISKY, AND THE DANGEROUS, THE INSECURE and you will NOT be at a loss
- 18. No More Middleof the “Rowers” • Come on the boat or stay at the shore • “People full of fear make others afraid so they can rest at ease. They know well that now you will not touch them, you will not trespass their boundaries.”
- 19. Energy • Energy iscontagious • Vampires & Energy suckers – They will be squashed • You are the average of the 5 people you hang around the most – Who do you hang around the most? – Do they serve you in becoming the strongest version of yourself? – Re-evaluate your circle and BE COURAGEOUS with decisions
- 20. Fear is Natural •“A man becomes fearless by accepting his fears. It is not a question of bravery. It is simply seeing into the facts of life and realizing that these fears are natural.” • Do not reject fears • ACCEPT THEM
- 21. Boredom • “Boredom simplymeans that the way you are living is wrong, hence it can become a great event, the understanding that ‘I am bored and something has to be done, some transformation is needed.’” • Do what your heart is calling you to do • Live with passion
- 22. Crush It byGary Vaynerchuk • THREE MUSTS – 1. Love and take care of your family – 2. Work, ridiculously hard! – 3. Live your passion/love
- 23. Live your Storyout Loud • 1. Authenticity – Be the full you no matter what – Forget opinions from other people • 2. HUSTLE – Must outwork your competition every day – Even when you are in front of the pack • 3. Patience – Understand things take time – Little and often over the long haul • 4. Care fiercely about big AND small stuff – Family, School AND learning, Teammates, Weights, nutrition, recovery, mobility, • 5. Value legacy over individual stats – No one will remember one person on a losing team – They remember the WINNERS
- 24. Hagakure: The Bookof the Samurai • Advance daily – Become more skillful than yesterday – More skillful than today – This is never-ending • A man that has never erred is dangerous – Make mistakes! – Courage to fail and learn
- 25. Way of theSamurai • When the time comes – No time or moment to reason – Knowledge + Action = Power • Listening to people and reading books – Rehearse and VISUALIZE success • What does it smell like? • What does it taste like? • How will you respond to adversity?
- 26. Way of theSamurai • Unknown – Be aware you do not know what is going to happen – Visualize every day and night – When time comes, ACT without thought • Uncertainty – Even if it seems you will lose, retaliate – Neither wisdom nor technique has place here – Real men do not think of victory and defeat – Plunge recklessly towards death • Allows you to awaken from your dreams
- 27. Purpose and Discipline •Be here now and lack complications – Be present – No drama – Result is lively expression of true self – Attention to detail • Keep strengths and improve weaknesses
- 28. Rainstorm • “There issomething to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, still gets you wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything.”
- 29. Big Talk, LittleHeart • In China, there was once a man who liked pictures of dragons, and his clothing and furnishings were all designed accordingly. His deep affection for dragons was brought to the attention of the dragon god, and one day a real dragon appeared before his window. It is said that he died of fright. He was probably a man who always spoke big words but acted differently when facing the real thing.”
- 30. Mistakes…AGAIN • Remember Agreement# 1 • Be impeccable with your word • Make a mistake? – Correct it quickly – Do not hesitate – Correct yourself quickly without delay and mistakes will disappear
- 31. Take care ofyour family and friends • “When you are sick or in difficulties, many of those who were friendly or close to you in daily life will become cowards.” • When family/friends are in unhappy circumstances – Visit them, call, or send gift – NEVER be negligent toward someone from whom you received a favor
- 32. The more water,the higher the boat • More calamities adversity, challenges, troubles? – More courage, more fearlessness, more strength, more understanding – Dash forward with LIFE
- 33. Lessons from DanJohn • What I gave, I had & what I didn’t—I lost forever – 4th agreement—Always do your best • Hard work, although some deny this, is the number 1 factor in success in sports & life. – Write goals down – Read them every day – Bring them with you everywhere you go
- 34. The Bus RarelyShows Up on Schedule • You want everything – The records, girl, the grades & the fame – This is tough to do – Take time to enjoy the view • Breathe the air • Don’t worry about the squirrels • One step at a time
- 35. Park Bench Mentality •At best – Very few competitions are going to be perfect • When stars DO align – Don’t mess it up with a lot of extra energy – Visualization comes into play • Months before, weeks before, night before and day of competition
- 36. Judgment • One keypoint – NEVER judge a workout or competition as “good” or “bad” solely on that single day – Judging one’s worth as an athlete over the results of a single day is idiocy & will lead to long term failure – “We must bear in mind—that apart from the will there is nothing good or bad, & that we must try not to anticipate or to direct events, but merely accept them with intelligence.”
- 37. Lessons For Success •Shut up • Don’t Quit • Ask Questions later
- 38. Nutrition Rules • Cutout white sugar and flour • High Protein Diet • Great breakfast
- 39. Things to Thinkon • I firmly believe that in order to be really successful in sports & in life you must learn to deal with adversity • The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort & convenience, but where he stands in moments of challenge amid controversy
- 40. Things to Thinkon • I learned that happiness comes only when we push our hearts & minds to the furthermost reaches of which we are capable • I learned that the meaning of life is to matter, to be all that you can be • I’ll do whatever it takes to live my life fully. If I have to experience a little pain, so be it. I can deal with pain. I can deal with rejection. I can deal with defeat. But I will not deal with being less than what I am capable of being!
- 41. Disaster • When disasterstrikes – You have a choice • Give up or move onward – Real champions of life go forward, despite being afraid or blocked by obstacles. – Do what has to be done no matter how hopeless things look or how overwhelming the odds – Aware that fighting back may not always restore things to normal but trying always makes things better and provides immense self-satisfaction
- 42. Chunking Goals • Howdo you eat an elephant? – One bite at a time • How do you handle adversity? – One step at a time
- 43. GREATNESS • Thoughts createreality • Where you direct your focus is the direction you tend to go • Key to success – Focus full power of mind on things we are engaged in, not things we fear – COURAGE
- 44. Great Athletes: WhatThey Do • Great athlete – Does every day what a good one does occasionally – Does whatever it takes on a daily basis while a good athlete does it when it’s convenient – Trains every day while a good athlete trains when it’s comfortable – Goes out of his/her way to eat properly to recover while a good athlete eats whatever/whenever
- 45. 3 Keys ToGreat Athletes • Time spent in training • Near perfect biomechanics • IT factor, heart, drive, spirit, never give up attitude and/or Belief