Creating the Mentality of a Champion

by Dr. Jorge Valverde

Champions know that they have the freedom to choose their own attitude in any given circumstances and they choose to have an attitude of total confidence in their gifts and abilities. They realize that they need to be prepared and practice in the way they want to compete and compete in the way they practice. Champions feel totally prepared because they do all the little things daily that lead to greatness. They realize that total confidence takes courage, bravery, ownership, belief, self-acceptance and discipline. Champions are driven by passion and purpose and realize that perceptions are more powerful than reality, so they develop the ability to find something positive in everything they see or experience.

Champions realize that adventure is not outside, it is within, so they focus on a journey that reaches the deepest parts of their souls and hearts where they find the inspiration to transcend and fly like eagles, the only bird that will fly in a storm. Champions, like eagles know that they cannot fly without the resistance of air under its wings.

Champions realize that confidence is determined by what they focus on and they focus on only those things and steps that lead toward their destination.

Champions know the importance of giving a little bit more than what they receive. They know that they cannot receive anything without giving much more than other consider possible. Champions understand that nothing very wonderful happens in life until a person goes beyond the point of no return and decide to go for the extra mile. They are willing to do all the things that others were unwilling to do. Champions accept the risk that they need to take in order to go to a higher level and even though sometimes they do not have everything in perfect order, they keep moving forward with what they have, knowing that the rest will fall into place as they go. They are willing to give up what they have at the moment in order to go for something that they believe to be better. Champions realize that they need to get out of their comfort zone in order to have a breakthrough and sometimes they need to give up who they are in order to become the person they want to be.