Responding to Challenges-Jana Rawlinson

I am sitting at Heathrow airport waiting for my flight back to Australia. The flight has been delayed 3 hours and I will now miss my connecting flight in Singapore. Along with some other challenges recently in completing my membership site on schedule, it reminds me of how often things do not turn out like you think they will.
Have you noticed how once you set a goal that obstacles and challenges suddenly arise? Of course they do. If you didn't have the goal or the intention to go in a certain direction, a particular event or object does not present itself as an obstacle. The more you want to achieve something, particularly in a certain planned way, the more an obstacle can challenge you - how much do you really want it?
World Champion, Jana Rawlinson has had her fair share of challenges over an amazing athletic career. At her fittest, she has proven unbeatable on the track in her pet event, 400m hurdles. Her biggest challenge has been in staying fit and healthy for the biggest prize - Olympic glory. A knee injury disrupted her 2004 Games and the 2008 Olympic year has been another struggle for her. She is only just returning to international competition this week. Will her persistence and tenacity drive her to overcome this challenge and enable her to claim her Olympic dream? Often when we are faced with recurring challenges such as injury, there may be lesson that we need to get. Often we resist or fight our challenges rather than responding, like an aikido warrior and going with the challenge and redirecting the force.
What are your challenges? Have you stopped to consider what message it is that you need to get to overcome these challenges once and for all?

What defines a sporting champion?

In my mind a sporting champion is not defined solely by their results. It is easy to distinguish the champion who wins the title or gold medal - they are in the news for all to see. Not all that win are true champions - it is what they do with that win - their response that can define it. Do they win gracefully, do they win with courage and are they consistent in their response - either to win consistently or to also lose with grace and courage.
The champion that does not win the game or the race is less easy to see. This sporting champion gives their full 100% each and every time in competition and training; leaves their heart on the field, does whatever it takes to win and then is able to accept defeat. The defeat does not come through lack of application. In sport only one can win first place, but all can still win - it is the term of 'winning' that can be redefined.
You see, it can be tempting to view a loss as a failure. That the sole criteria for success is based on coming away with a win - without seeing what is actually achieved in the performance. A champion mindset is able to see the result in perspective, and take a loss as a learning experience - learn what needs to be done next to continue on to further success. The more you fail, the more you will succeed.
A champion never loses as long as he/she continues to learn and grow and become the best that he/she can be. Start acting like a champion and the results will follow.

Living your Dream Don Bemrose

Listening to the National Anthem at a sporting event always stirs emotion within me - a sense of pride, a sense of achievement - for me it's a powerful emotional state from which I feel capable of anything.
Check out http://youtube.com/watch?v=g7R7zZsP6Gw where you can listen to my friend and colleague Don Bemrose perform Advance Australia Fair in front of a packed Suncorp Stadium at State of Origin 2. This is an opportunity that Don created for himself - let him tell you the story at www.donbemrose.blogspot.com by believing in his dream and taking action to make it come true.
It gives me great pleasure to share it here with you.

Kurek Ashley's "How Would Love Respond"

I recently received Kurek Ashley's new book 'How would Love Respond?" and I was so taken by the gift that I wanted to share it and the wonderful bonuses that come with it.
Kurek was an integral part of the Gold Medal winning performance of Natalie Cook and Kerri Pottharst at the Sydney Olympics. Their win was more about the skill of their mind then their playing skills. A topic I am so passionate about and that has inspired me to helping others create their own gold medal winning performances.
“I knew in my heart that with Kurek’s help, I could win gold in the beach volleyball on Bondi Beach, Australia. His enthusiasm, love, passion and positivity is contagious and infectious. How Would Love Respond? addresses how to deal with fear, doubt, self-esteem and anything else that stands in your way to achieve everything you have ever dreamed of. It is a must-read for anybody that has a dream.”--NATALIE COOK, Olympic Gold Medalist, Sydney 2000, Beach Volleyball
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Goal Setting with Brian Tracy

I was reading "Maximum Achievement" by Brian Tracy last night and got some new distinctions with regard to Goal Setting. It wasn't anything that I hadn't heard before, but just by reading it again and being open to learning something new, I understood it at a deeper level.
It is with regard to the power of persistence, particularly for goals that are much bigger than your current experience. These goals do not come easy or quickly - as Brian Tracy says "you will have to grow and develop to the point that you are ready to achieve it." Consequently, you experience challenges to reach that point.
Think of all the great things that you have achieved in the past - did they follow times of difficulty and even initial 'failures'? When you experience the same challenge over and over again, there is still something for YOU to GET. Here is another chance to learn and grow.
Many of the greatest successes in time occurred 'one step beyond' a great failure. Often it seems like everything is suggesting to quit, when in fact it is the challenge to you - HOW MUCH DO YOU WANT THIS GOAL? How much do you belief in yourself. Along the way you even get to learn something about faith and trust at a deeper level than you ever thought possible.
Get the learnings, belief in yourself and your dream, and GO FOR IT!

Buy the positive approach by Zig Ziglar (from Jim Rohn Newsletter)

I would like to share with you thoughts of Zig Ziglar, a leader in personal growth and performance.
"Just what can positive thinking do? To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do "anything." If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it. As a ridiculous example, I'm a positive thinker, but I could never slam-dunk a basketball or perform major surgery - or even minor surgery - on anyone and expect that person to survive.
It's safe to say that positive thinking won't let you do "anything." However, it is even safer to say that positive thinking will let you do "everything" better than negative thinking will. Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome. It works this way. You can walk into a dark room, flip on the switch and immediately the room is lighted. Flipping the switch did not generate the electricity; it released the electricity which had been stored. Positive thinking works that way - it releases the abilities which you have.
The student who hasn't studied and prepared for the test won't be helped by "thinking positively." However, positive thinking will help the student who has studied and prepared by "releasing" the stored knowledge when the questions are asked. To express it in a different way, knowledge breeds confidence; confidence breeds enthusiasm; and enthusiasm is an important key to being and doing more with your life.
Buy the positive approach to life and I will SEE YOU AT THE TOP!
Zig Ziglar
: Reproduced with permission from the Jim Rohn Weekly E-zine - http://www.jimrohn.com