I was given another mentor blog, but this one was about mental toughness. This little article is actually a very good one. It has a lot of very skilled athletes quoting about mental toughness and how they work through it. I thought this went really well with what I am doing as a final project. This ties in very well with my goals, my purpose, and my priorities. One of the best quotes from this little article came from Michael Jordan. He says that relaxing in a big situation or moment is better than getting ahead of yourself and thinking about different outcome. That goes really well with my wrestling and my goals. If I think too much about something when I am wrestling I feel a lot less confident when I am wrestling. And the same things go with my goals, if I think too far ahead with my life and visualization things might go down the wrong path and it’s due to the fact that I may be over thinking things. The other really good quote I saw came form Steph Curry, he says that its good to be nervous and anxious but he uses all those feelings towards his advantage and knows that he will perform because of these feelings.

This article helps me to visualize what I want to do with my life and how hard I am willing to work. I have set a good set of goals and visualizing about them is part of the process to becoming great, which is my purpose in life. If I were to grade myself on how I am doing with my goals and visualizing the rest of my life, I would say I still need to do some work. Every now and then I will wake up at 8:00am but its not everyday and need to work on it so I can start my day early. I talked about some of the distractions that I was going to come across and I already hit a road block and working around it. I recently went to Mankato for a street festival. At first I wasn’t going to go but I didn’t visualize about what could happen. When I got there I realized this was taking me away from my goals and priorities. I need to visualize more about some of the outcomes that could happen and start thinking about what I really need to do with my life. Getting my weight down could be better as well. I can tell I’m not wrestling well and performing because of all the extra weight I have on my body. If I want to become great I need to feel good about my body. Doing 100 sit ups and push is actually going well and my abs are finally starting to come back. As far as school is going I am doing a lot better and staying on track with class. Class is probably where I improved the most as far as goals and I will continue to do so.

All of this has to do with mental toughness. I originally thought I was pretty strong mentally but after grading myself on how I am doing with my goals. I can now see clearly that I have work to do and a lot of things that I can change to become a better version of myself.