I think most of you know the power of taking sun’s rays and adjusting its vast powers into a small point of a magnifying glass. Because of the concentration of power into one small point you get focused burning power that can easily start a fire.
Without the lens concentrated into a small beam of light and for a long enough time, the sun can shine as bright and hot as she wants – but never be quite intense enough to start flames here on earth without the right kind of focus.
We are very much like the sun in a sense. We can psyche ourselves up to be very hot and intense with burning desire and intention. But without all that energy focused with the right intensity over a long enough period in one pinpoint spot, a fire will never start – and our full muscular strength will never be realized.
Most fail to realize their full potential because they lack the ability to focus their power and concentrate that strength for a longer period than just a few seconds.
Without the knowledge of specifically where to focus your efforts and knowledge of where best to apply them specifically to create fluid athletic movements, then the keenest mental focus in the world isn’t going to create greater strength with burning power and speed.
It’s like a barrage of missiles that are off course and miss their mark. It still doesn’t matter how powerful any one of them are, their force won’t demonstrate their full effectiveness on the target unless they hit right on the money.
So it is with human intention and action, if you’re off the mark even with the greatest of mental focus and passion, you still end up not putting your greatest power where it should be.
In addition, no matter how good you get at focusing all your resources to hitting one target, one of the biggest stumbling blocks is that this practice doesn’t necessarily translate into where and how exactly to apply it to human movement which isn’t remotely like a stationary target. We’re always in constant motion and especially in sports it seems advantageous if our focus could to be in several areas almost at the same time to be most effective.
You will be amazed how fast you improve peak performance and enhance sports performance when you begin spending at least as much time training your brain with mental focus training as you do your body.
To Your Strength and Mastery,
Garin Bader
P.S. This is why I give you many physical and mental tools in CoreForce Energy to help empower your body and mind to work together to focus the right intensity where it counts the most in living fluid action.
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CoreForce Energy was inspired by my belief that we all are living far below our true potential not only in muscular strength but in realizing and engaging the abundant talents we all have buried inside us.
I remember a long time ago the inspiring Anthony Robbins said that you get intelligent answers by asking intelligent questions. To me, one of the most important questions we can ask every day is, “Am I living up to my true potential?”
If you ask that question in the gym, at school, at home, at work, and ask it every day, I’m sure you’ll find that not only is the answer “No”, but that immediately after answering the question, your brain will search for the answer of “Why Not?!” and “What would I have to do to make that happen?”
See that’s the beauty of intelligent questions, it inspires new ways of thinking and moving.
The problem is, most every day, we concentrate on what we don’t want, how we can make it through to the weekend, how we can follow someone else instead of leading our own destiny by our own answers to our own intelligent questions.
No one else is going to ask you questions that will make you find and activate your inner strength. Sure, they may inspire you, but they won’t ask the questions that will make your brain automatically search for the answers that are buried deep within You.
I’d like to encourage you to ask this question because I believe you have most of the answers to live up to your potential already buried inside you waiting for an intelligent question like this to release its powerful and inspiring answers.
Give it a try and walk into the gym and ask this question, “How could this workout today catapult me to live up to my true potential in muscular strength?”
Ask that question and ask it every time you workout this week, and tell me if you’re starting to think differently; if you’re starting to activate new ways of moving; if you choose different exercises because of it; if you choose different weights and change the number of reps every set. See if your form changes just by asking this question.
Many of you who’ve been wanting to lose weight fast will start changing the very way you workout if you keep asking that question every time you walk into the gym. I bet in no time that you’ll finally begin achieving your goals quickly because you know deep down, it’s your choices that determine your future and most of you know the what you have to do to start living up to your true potential.
I implore you if you’re inspired by just this powerful question – because you already know many of the answers deep down that will propel you to live up to your true potential.
Today is not another day to just get by. Today is a fantastic day where intelligent questions will give you new answers to inspire you to live up to your true potential.
To Your Strength and Mastery,
Garin Bader
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Here are #12 and #13 of twenty-five reasons I’ve come up with that we fail to master optimal mental focus.
Again, they are not in order of importance. We would enjoy far more frequent successes in our lives if we spent just as much time on mental mastery as we do on physical mastery. There is unbelievable synergy created when they are worked on together in unison. Unfortunately, many never enjoy the vast rewards of this synergy because of these reasons…
To Your Strength and Mastery,
Garin Bader
12 ) We think that mental focus will miraculously become keener when the game is on. We fool ourselves with that adage that we work best under pressure and that the eyes of a crowd or adrenaline will somehow sharpen our mental lenses purely by the “magic of the moment”.
Granted, many of us have done some of our best work under pressure. Deadlines can be a good motivator. But, they don’t always bring us optimal inspiration nor our best performances. To rely on keen mental focus because of the pressure of deadlines is courting disaster more than it’s courting inspiration.
Although we may have given some of our best performances under pressure, we shouldn’t depend on that and it’s reckless to do so. Those that have been practicing 2-4 years for the Gold in the Olympics know that their competition have also been rehearsing under every condition and way ahead of schedule in order to win. They’re certainly not depending on the Olympic Torch to give them last minute inspirations and newfound abilities. To wait until the last minute for inspiration that may or may not come is certainly not preparing yourself to stay within your optimal mental focus zone.
Certainly miraculous things often will occur when the synergy of a crowd, adrenaline, and other factors are present, but to not prepare ahead of time in every aspect to the best of our ability is to be hoping for the best instead of preparing for the best.
13 ) We haven’t practiced mental focus techniques when our blood sugar is low, when we haven’t eaten, or slept well and are not used to regaining it quickly in those circumstances nor have techniques to help circumvent those conditions in the first place. High stress situations put your body in precarious situations quite often that completely crumble the best mental focus practitioners. So, when your body isn’t feeling up to par in real life competition and/or inevitable high stress situations, the reason our mental focus often spirals out of control is because we haven’t practiced in those kinds of sub-par conditions.
People often say there is not a substitute for experience on the playing field. That may be true in one sense. But what is for certain is that we don’t learn to practice and cope with “bad” physical conditions when we rehearse. Most people always want to feel in the best physical condition before they go out to practice because they feel they should achieve optimal performance every time or simply hate feeling uncomfortable.
The fact is, in performance and in the heat of the game, nothing is usually perfect and far from being comfortable. Your body is usually feeling stress long before your mind even recognizes it. So, if you haven’t rehearsed when your body isn’t feel well for whatever reason, those conditions will completely throw you off your best performance.
I feel you can create your own “experience” every day by rehearsing every scenario you may ever encounter – including those days where your body isn’t feeling it’s best. Having the attitude that every day is a good day of learning even if your body is feeling like crap, will bring you mastery much faster and you’ll gain experience at a much faster rate than most of your competitors.
Murphy’s Law is usually present in stressful conditions and we must practice to retain the keenest of mental focus when Murphy comes visiting. For some reason he always has a pass to get into every situation! He’s never invited but Always seems to show up for those that don’t expect him. “Bad” conditions are normal circumstances that occur in competition and unfortunately most of us practice mental focus to operate under the best conditions – which rarely happens in the field of competition or performance.
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Here are eleven out of twenty-five reasons I’ve come up with that we fail to master optimal mental focus. They are not in order of importance. We would enjoy far more frequent successes in our lives if we spent just as much time on mental mastery as we do on physical mastery. There is unbelievable synergy created when they are worked on together in unison. Unfortunately, many never enjoy the vast rewards of this snynergy because of these reasons…
11 Good Reasons We Fail to Master Mental Focus…..
1) We spend hours training our bodies and usually schedule no more than a few minutes with mental focus techniques – if even that. We brush our teeth regularly without trying to come up with excuses not too. And yet, we often do it without any self-negotiating for a lot longer than we spend in trying to master seeing our successes in our minds with complete clarity and conviction.
2) We know mental focus is necessary for peak performance but still spend little time trying to learn and incorporate new ideas into our training that may work better for us. Just like anything else, what may seem like small adjustments actually translate into huge returns if you’re willing to experiment and be vigilant to those small degrees that either improve or degrade your performance. Think of how a golf club amplifies a bad stroke – mastering small adjustments is a never-ending quest for the master to know how to activate the best stroke for the situation. Likewise, you want to spend time tweaking and mastering “small details” consistently as well.
3) We spend a lot of time talking about mental focus training and reading books about it, but too little time in actually applying what we know or have learned. Knowledge is not mastery in itself – applying knowledge to action regularly puts us on the road to mastery faster than anything else. There are enough armchair critics who have little comphrension of how to engage peak performance on the battlefield – fooling themselves into thinking that talking a good game is on the same playing field as one who is engaging it for real with real live action instead of words.
4) We think that mental focus will come automatically once we master our chosen physical activity. The reverse is most often the solution. Unfortunately, we spend countless hours practicing actions with half-assed intentions thinking that mastery of the physical with give us automatic mastery over the mental and end up never realizing the synergy that’s created when you work on the mastery of both of them at the same time.
5) We often waste time stubbornly trying to adopt another’s mental focus techniques instead of modifying things to better fit us or taking the initiative to discover our own methods that’ll work best for us. It’s great to go shopping for designer clothing. But if the look doesn’t fit, either go to a tailor or adjust it yourself to fit perfectly. Some styles you love may fit and look much better on a completely different body type than your own. Let them wear it and find what works best for you.
6) Even though we know this, for lack of imagination, stubbornness, or courage to find our own way, we keep trying to make our current visualizations translate well into physical actions regardless of their poor performance record. Eventually because of unpredictable outcomes and continual failures, many begin regarding visualization training as trivial and give it little emphasis or time.
7) We don’t exactly know how to translate mental focus techniques into physical action – so we end up thinking too much in our heads or spending too much time in our bodies instead of seeing everything all at once like an eagles eyesight – seeing the entire valley while also soaring down honing in on the bristling hairs behind a fleeing rabbit’s ears. When you can see, hear, and feel detail and everything perspective all at once, you’re in a zone that’ll generate peak performance consistently.
8 ) We surmise that mental focus is a stationary destination and that we must remain in its zone no matter what – instead of realizing our mental focus should be a fluid lens that can quickly adapt to inevitable fluctuating circumstances. Mastering mental focus means being able to adapt to a huge palette of energies and movement that we may encounter.
9) When the stakes are high, we often focus on calming the mind down and the slower thought processes bleed out to the muscles and nervous system often resulting in sluggish body mechanics – which in turn leads to more stress because it often prompts more disatrous results because of a disconnect of mind and body moving together as one.
10) We fail to master mental focus because we spend the majority of our time mentally rehearsing optimal performances we desire in third person instead of seeing and feeling them in first person. By not really believing deep down that the masterful mental movies we’re seeing are really being performed by us, that displacement of real belief inevitably puts your brain at a disadvantage because in real live action scenarios it’s always judging your performance with that perfect one you see in your optimal mental pictures. When your brain hasn’t been conditioned to fully believe you possess the same masterful actions you see in your imagination, then your brain continually lags behind your actions instead of leading it. That’s why there’ll always be conflict between intentions and actions unless we change our thoughts and feelings to be congruent.
Your brain doesn’t know the difference between an imagined event or a real one. You’re much more likely to stay in the mental focus and peak performance zone when you’ve trained your brain to be in the actual skin of that successful athlete or performer you see in your mind at all times – feeling and reacting to every exhilarating action.
11) We don’t visualize our successful outcomes infused with the highest intensity of empowering emotions and then wonder why we can’t get optimal focus when we’re in the thick of the game or performance. Without every fiber of our being engaged in rehearsal at all times, how can we expect unwavering mental focus? In performance when our actions are being scrutinized by all, emotions suddenly flair up in force. The added surges of emotional electrical firestorms that could have been harnassed for supreme mental focus and optimal power end up throwing us off our game. Knowing all shades of what emotions and thoughts empower you help foil the ones you known definitely don’t aid you. That’s one of the reasons why rehearsing with full-on genuine emotions can empower maximum mental focus.
Many times we get rattled too easily by the emotional brainstorms that occur naturally when andrenaline is present and pumping through our veins hard and fast. Adrenaline can help give us super strength, speed, and keen mental focus. But we must learn to harness it and be able to call it up when we need it. How is adrenaline activated? Usually directly by high emotional engagement. We need neglect to train our mental focus to go with the flow under extreme pressures. Enough said?
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‘I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do
everything
I will not refuse to do the
something that I can do.’
- Edward Everett Hale
I try to use every opportunity to program my mind for super strength and success. It’s in the everyday things we do and in each second that passes by that great moments and ideas are born and are the very things that can make all the difference in fast-forwarding ourselves towards the goals in our lives that really matter.
Too many people think they need to allot a bunch of time to think about success and their goals. They feel a need to find a quiet place, the right time, the right mood – and it usually never comes.
By the time they think about scheduling the “right time”, they’ve already passed hundreds of opportunities to program their minds for victory in so many things – the very things that matter to them the most if they could become a reality.
We say so often that the time just flew by and then turn right around and say that time stands still. So which is it?
Time’s second hand is always ticking the same relentless beat. It’s our minds that interpret it as being fast or slow.
Regardless of whether it’s fast or slow, take each second that seems idle to program your mind for success instead of with stupid mind chatter that disempowers us.
For instance, upload several awesomely inspiring photos into your phone for a screensaver. Every time you answer your phone the screensaver will light up and you’ll see a picture that inspires you towards a goal, a peak performance moment, a victory snapshot.
Upload several photos that REALLY inspire you deeply and represent things that make you move towards just by the image they represent – pictures that inspire action and ideas. If you have the skills, put text on a photo with an editing application that states your victory in capitals. Sure, you might not have a large screen, but a postage stamp often gets a powerful message across even with its size – and most phones are quite a bit bigger, right?
Every time you answer the phone, you’d want your voice to exhibit optimal strength and confidence anyway, right? We’ll here’s a flickering moment of opportunity to program your mind towards success that doesn’t take a lot of time and is super powerful. Instead of faking it without a truly empowering picture in your mind, you might as well feel it and see something that affects you deeply and that’s genuine, right?
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