I hope this finds everyone well and I hope it finds everyone in the mists of the 30/30 Challenge that was laid out a few days ago. If you don’t know about it, or forgot about it, or just haven’t started doing 30 reps or 30 minutes of an exercise daily for 30 days it’s ok. That doesn’t make you a bad person, just start today after you read the blog.
Confidence, willpower, determination and perseverance are qualities that everyone wants to have. However, most people feel that they are born with them or their not, and if their not born with them they just end up being stuck. That’s not right though. These qualities are within all of us and can be developed through our actions. Hence the 30/30 Challenge.
Research has shown that there are people out there that believe their abilities, intelligence, talents are all just fixed traits. Whatever amount they have that’s it and they can't get anymore no matter what they do so they don't even try. Then there is another group of people that understand that the talents and abilities that they currently possess can be further developed though effort, passion, patience, persistence (The 3 P’s BLOG) and good education. They typically don’t believe that everyone is the same or that anyone can be Thomas Edison, but they have a strong belief that everyone…everyone can get smarter if they just work at it. This is the fixed mindset vs the growing mindset continuum.
Most of us have a blend of the two mindsets, in one area we might have the growing mindset and another a fixed mindset. Take this for example, you might be a person who is very goal and growth oriented when it comes to your work. You believe in your abilities, you know what you're worth and are constantly looking for ways to continue developing to be the best that you can be at work. Then again, you might have a fixed mindset when it comes to your health and feel that the hand you were given is what you're stuck with and you believe you’ve never been the type of person who works out or never were athletic enough to go run or utilize the gym or everything you've tried before never worked. Take a moment and think for yourself and see if you can think of areas where you might do either.
I wanted to lay out the 30/30 challenge for all of us to do together even as we are spread across the globe, to show that we have the power to prove to ourselves in a small way that we can improve just by having a growing mindset and commiting to something. If you’ve been committed so far, I’m sure that you’ve realized it’s becoming easier everyday, and each day is another small win (Shooting for 1% BLOG). If we get enough of those small wins over time our confidence will continue to grow and we’ll further develop our growing mindset.
Being around sports and gyms and training people from all walks of life I’ve watched this happen first hand. I’ve worked with people who have never done any physical activity in their life and they’ll say that to me first thing. They don’t see themselves as being a strong, fit, able bodied person and don’t believe they can ever be that. But what happens next is awesome if they commit to themselves. Workout after workout, rep after rep, pound after pound, their confidence grows, they believe they can grow, they see now that they control their health and longevity and can develop them with effort and hard work. All of those little actions of showing up daily and putting the work in led them to developing a growth mindset. It’s so rewarding to witness it first hand.
Go out and start small, and prove to yourself that through all the little successes day after day after day that you have the ability and power to develop your confidence, willpower, determination and perseverance. If you do that I promise you a growing mindset just by completing the 30/30 Challenge. And with that it'll lead you to develop it in other facets of your life.
Now that you’re motivated, here are the next steps for you to stay motivated, pick an exercise/activity that is realistic for you, keep it simple. Get a friend to join you for the 30 days, it’ll be fun, I currently have a group text message going with 3 friends that we all log our reps daily in, and bust chops as well. It holds us accountable and will do the same. Just pick something to do, it doesn’t need to be ridiculous, anything that makes your heart beat faster. Make an effort to eat healthy and get a full night of sleep. And most importantly have fun, you are not alone, we're all in it together.
Off to Tank Up and get my 30 burpees in!
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