Believe that ’no human is limited,’ understanding that perceived limitations exist primarily in one’s own thinking and can be overcome by shifting your perspective.
Consistently perform known tasks daily without fail. This leads to mental and physical adaptation, resulting in a sense of freedom and clarity in your endeavors.
Consistently do what you say you will do, even in small things. This builds self-trust, which is crucial for facing difficult times and achieving goals.
Before pursuing any goal, dedicate significant effort to thorough planning and preparation. These are crucial values that enable the pursuit and achievement of your vision.
Embrace humility and consciously let go of anger. Anger is a destructive ‘weed,’ while humility allows for clear thinking, gaining knowledge, and making wise decisions.
Understand that failure is not the opposite of success, but rather the ‘soil where wisdom grows.’ It provides more profound lessons and knowledge than any victory.
Instead of fixating on goals as mere outcomes, develop robust systems and processes. Use goals as guiding principles to maintain discipline and keep you on your chosen path.
Maintain continuous effort and perseverance through life’s challenges. The moment you stop pressing on, that signifies the end of progress and vitality.
View life’s challenges, whether small ‘pumps’ or significant ‘potholes,’ as temporary obstacles in a journey. Address them, learn, and continue moving forward, rather than giving up.
When you experience a setback or ‘fall down,’ the important thing is not the fall itself, but how quickly and effectively you recover. Learn to wake up faster and move on.
When plans go awry or something doesn’t go as expected, actively ask yourself what lessons this situation has taught you that you couldn’t have learned otherwise.
Actively seek out and extract lessons from failures, as this process is often more beneficial for growth than analyzing successes. It’s easier to ‘scoop the learnings’ from negatives.
When faced with the temptation to quit after a setback, reframe your purpose and use your chosen field as a powerful messenger to empower others, then recommit to action.
Value and appreciate the consistent daily efforts and learnings accumulated during the process. Recognize these as real accomplishments, rather than solely focusing on the final outcome.
Cultivate the ability to act as a ‘shock absorber’ to handle any setbacks that arise. This allows you to acknowledge accomplishments, gain experience, and move on.
After a setback, allow yourself time to sleep and process. Then, wake up the next morning, set another goal, and continue moving forward with renewed purpose.
Recognize that true busyness is often a mental construct. Most people can plan their day to incorporate necessary activities, even small breaks, unless genuinely incapacitated.
To combat perceived busyness and ensure productivity, plan your next day’s activities and timings the evening before. Sleeping with a plan helps you feel less ‘crazy busy’ in the morning.
Make a list of tasks for the day, but understand you won’t accomplish everything. Prioritize the most important items and tackle them first, allowing other tasks to shift to later without rushing.
Take time to reflect on your personal mindset, your core values, and your relationship with failure. This self-awareness is an invitation to personal growth.
Understand that progress in life is not always a straight line. It often happens in unexpected moments and through unforeseen challenges, so embrace its unpredictable nature.
Consider completing a task or journey, such as finishing a race, as a beautiful and accomplished mission, regardless of position or time. The act of starting and finishing is key.
Integrate values like respect, integrity, consistency, and love into your actions and interactions. View these as essential for a fruitful world and respectful engagement in any endeavor.
Have goals and dreams, but don’t overdo it or set too many. Focus on the underlying system, planning, and preparation required to achieve them.
To achieve specific goals, create and adhere to a detailed roadmap. This involves consistent training, discipline, and intentional nutrition, focusing on energy-building foods.
While having a goal or vision is good, creating a detailed, step-by-step roadmap for how to achieve it is crucial. This roadmap outlines the ‘recipes’ for success.
Set goals primarily as a tool to maintain discipline and keep you on track. They serve to guide you back to your course when you might otherwise go astray.
If you are in a position of experience, focus on nurturing, building, and providing holistic education and training to those who come after you, making them better than yourself.
Offer guidance, love, and support to younger individuals, acting as a mentor. Help them think critically and provide the right things to enable them to succeed in their endeavors.
Regularly take time to think and ask yourself what contributions you can make to the world and your chosen field, considering your impact for years to come.
Leverage your skills or platform, whatever it may be, as a messenger to deliver positive messages and inspire others globally, touching lives beyond personal gain.
Understand that the true purpose of your work, especially in sport, is to touch and positively influence the lives of others, beyond just winning or making money.
Identify what truly motivates and inspires you. Use these insights as an ‘ignition key’ to consistently pursue your goals, even waking up early to act on them.
Understand that records and wins are temporary and meant to be surpassed. This continuous cycle of breaking and winning is the essence and ‘sweetness’ of sport.
For those facing tough circumstances, break free from self-imposed limitations by believing in your ability to provide, nurture, and guide. Act on that belief to change your situation.
When facing immense difficulties, persist by repeatedly tackling the problem. Every effort, not just the final breakthrough, contributes to overcoming the ‘hardest rock ever’.
Approach life’s outcomes, whether success or missed success, with a mindset of learning and continuous movement forward. Learn from what happens and absorb the lessons.
Appreciate significant improvements you’ve made and understand that performance naturally fluctuates. Not every day will be your best, and that’s a normal part of life and sport.
Acknowledge and appreciate your energy levels each day, whether average or high. Adjust your effort accordingly, pressing your body to the limit when energy is high, and appreciating average days.
Recognize that physical actions are driven by your inner conviction and mental control. Internalize your purpose in your heart and mind to guide your body and make it move.
Build a strong, positive mindset by focusing on being happy and satisfied with your training efforts, regardless of daily fluctuations. This contentment translates to mental well-being.
Understand that failing to follow through on commitments to yourself erodes self-trust and reliability. This makes it a toxic habit that breaks the trust you have with yourself.
Instead of many large goals, commit to one small, consistent action daily. By doing that one thing every day, you gradually build up trust in yourself over time.
Treat trust, especially self-trust, as a strong cement that binds you to your actions and goals. It needs to be really firm and well-maintained to ensure progress and stability.
Cultivate humility and shed ego by focusing on respecting all humanity and understanding your purpose in contributing to the world. This gives you the power to throw away ego.
Recognize that humbleness is a powerful tool for building genuine connections with others. It creates a real connection with everybody in the world.
Extend equal love, respect, and treatment to all human beings, regardless of background or perceived status. Treat everyone in an equal way.
To truly enjoy any endeavor, especially sport, respect its nature and be willing to accept all outcomes, whether favorable or not. This is how to love and keep the sport alive.
Always think and speak in terms of ‘we’ rather than ‘I,’ emphasizing teamwork and collective effort. Believe that running, and many other pursuits, are team sports.
Understand that even seemingly individual pursuits are enhanced by teamwork. Being with a team helps you get the best results and enjoy the process more.
Build teams based on mutual trust, where people work collaboratively to achieve a shared vision. This creates a community and spreads a positive message.
Recognize that people, their contributions, and their interactions are the true essence and value of any organization or community. Without human force, it’s just a building.
Set a powerful example by actively participating in humble, communal tasks, such as cleaning toilets or dining rooms. This inspires the next generation and leaves a lasting mark.
Aim for sustained engagement in your chosen field, as longer participation leads to deeper learning and wisdom. Longevity is key to truly understanding and contributing to your sport.
Regularly question your identity, contributions, and the impact you are having on others and the wider world. Ask what you are bringing and if you are on the right track.
Define success not just by winning or breaking records, but by the personal accomplishment of completion, the inspiration you provide, and your mastery of the process.
For those hesitant to run, begin by simply walking for 20-30 minutes daily. Experience the positive physical and mental differences, then take that energy into other areas of your life.
Encourage staff to incorporate walking and running into their routines. This is believed to significantly reduce sickness and improve overall well-being.
Believe that widespread participation in running can foster unity, bring people together, and facilitate collective problem-solving. It can help heal the world by encouraging shared ideas.
Use running as a tool for creative thinking. Go for a 40-60 minute run, then capture all the ideas that come to you on paper afterwards, and work on them later.
Disregard self-consciousness about your body when exercising. Remember that the world belongs to everyone, and you have a right to occupy your space and pursue well-being without shame.
Apply lessons learned from running, such as humility and understanding, to become a better parent. Guide your children positively and teach them the right values to be better human beings.
Build enduring relationships, especially with mentors or coaches, based on mutual trust, respect, and understanding. This long-term connection is crucial for sustained success.
Cultivate self-discipline by setting clear priorities, sacrificing personal passions and pleasures when necessary, and learning to say ’no’ to distractions, making it a lifestyle.
Understand that any goal is meaningless without excellent preparation. This preparation serves as the daily motivation and discipline to work towards that goal.
Practice daily self-organization by planning your activities the night before. This ensures a smooth, uninterrupted, and organized day without feeling overwhelmed.
Cultivate positive thinking by going to sleep with positivity and sleeping deeply, then waking up thinking in a positive way to ensure your day will be great.
Engage in teamwork, defined as people trusting and working together. This is the way to gain knowledge, share resources, and mutually support each other’s efforts.
View consistency as a steady accumulation of small, continuous efforts. Like small drops of water filling a glass, these efforts, over time, lead to significant results.
Recognize that change is fundamental for development. Accept and adapt to changes in technology or any other aspect of life to foster personal, familial, communal, national, and global growth.
To reduce ego, sit down and critically examine your achievements, separating them from your core identity as a human being, and then consciously choose to behave simply as a human.
Understand that you cannot achieve or consume everything alone. Acknowledge interdependence and the need to share resources, as we cannot finish everything in this world by ourselves.
Avoid criticizing or comparing yourself to others. Concentrate on your own journey and challenges, as focusing on what your ’neighbor is eating’ distracts from your own progress and leaves your ‘food cold’.
Solve small, personal tasks first (‘make your own bed’) before tackling bigger things. This also serves as a reminder that at the end of the day, you are alone with yourself, rendering external ego meaningless.