If you like being comfortable, martial arts is not for you. If you like to settle into the confident feeling that youâve got it all figured out, Jiu Jitsu may need to be scratched off your list of things to try. HoweverâŚif you like to constantly find growth, this is where itâs at. If you can learn to allow your ego to be popped on the regular, allowing it to…
Category: Growth Mindset
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The Time I Unhealthily Made My Favorite Body…
This is one of my favorite athletic pictures of myself. This picture represents an image of my body that I dreamed about my entire life. In many ways, I was so strong. I podiumed in this race, and I built some solid strength, endurance, and killer perseverance. I LOVED how my body LOOKED. BUTâŚI know the full story behind my favorite âlook.â I was overtrained. By a lot. I didnât…
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The Best Growth Year Ever
Itâs been a year since I first developed anxiety in Jiu Jitsu. The battle against anxiety was promptly followed up by a major neck injury that kept me on the sidelines (and still recovering). It would be easy to write this year off as terrible. Easy. Most people end the year by saying something along the lines of how terrible their year was anyway, I could easily fall in line.…
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Reframing The”I Can’t’s”
I canâtâs are easy. They make it easy to dismiss the task at hand. Easy to quit. Easy to move on and forget about it. Easy to do and complete. But. âI canâtâsâ inhibit growth. They divert your attention. They help you feel good about your decision to not push forward and figure it out. They keep you right where you are. No growth. Sometimes âI canâtâsâ just need to…
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Have You Ever Lost?
Winning is cool and all, but have you ever tried losing? It was some years ago that I lost my first match ever. I had won every fight I had done up until that point in time (in Muay Thai and Jiu Jitsu both), and I was confident that this amateur match would amount to me winning yet another. Then I lost. Two weeks later, when the emotional rollercoaster…
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Have An Injury? Good. Get To Work…
So you have an injury? Good. -Jocko (basically, but probably) Thereâs no way around it-injuries suck. And if you are someone who has a sport they love to do, like Jiu Jitsu, then they can really, really suck. You can wallow in self pity and cry and complain, and you know what, I think those things are completely fine to do and easy to justify doingâŚfor a minute. Then, youâve…