Wildflower Talk on Mental Skills

A buddy wrote these up for me as well.

Be positive as much as you can in what you say and what you write – we have 100% control over it

Hard to control what you think

Reinforce positive thoughts
- write them down
- use training log or positive thoughts journal


Racing:

Write down a race plan – it makes it concrete
- fears: write them down, identify them and find a solution

If you write negative things down it burns into the mind – very damaging, be very careful with your written words.

100% responsible for how I look, how I feel and how I react to things

Take responsibility for your emotions -- it’s up to me to create good stuff


If you’re not happy you can do (3) things:

1. Wait – hope it will change
2. Change your attitude
3. Change the situation

When you’re unhappy ---- consider the source of dissatisfaction

“Past fixations” attached to injustices or “slights” that have happened – release them in the present -- we tend to let them bother us.

Might be that you have to forgive someone, or most commonly yourself

“Future fixations” never in the present -- always trying to become something else, faster, thinner, richer, happier.

Must be happy in the present.

How do you just be happy?
Recognize the patterns of happiness
Use affirmations
Write and talk -- consistent with goals

“I haven’t trained” --- don’t say things that prepare you for failure.

Present Orientation:
Accept the way things are vs. resistance (trying to change the world to be the way you want to be (source of tension and unhappiness)