Speaking Notes
The best weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. ~William James
The Creator gave us the complete, unchallengeable right of prerogative over the one thing, and only thing we own, our mind. ~Napoleon Hill
Your ability to choose what thoughts you think is a superpower.
When you run an ultramarathon, managing your thoughts is as important as the condition of your body.
One thing is certain when you run an ultramarathon: things won’t go according to your plan.
Something will happen you have to deal with. Out of your control. Or a mistake.
Your thoughts and the story you tell yourself will either help you or hurt you.
Choosing what thoughts you want to think is difficult on good days. But when your plans to to hell, that’s when you need this superpower.
Brenda and I just got home from a great vacation in the Texas Hill Country.
We toured wineries. We hiked. We read books and rested. We sat in the hot tub. It was a good vacation.
The drive home is a little over 12 hours.
We were 60 miles from home and the warning light came on and the engine lost power.
We were at an exit ramp so I turned off the car and coasted.
I was able to make it to a gas station parking lot.
It was obvious that we weren’t going to drive any farther.
We called a tow service to get us and our car home.
This was not according to our plan!
We were feeling good about the fun we had.
We were thinking about what we had to do when we got home.
Now we have to deal with a broken car that might need a new motor.
This could have ruined all our good memories of our time in Texas.
But I told Brenda how good it was that we broke down so close to home.
We were in a town with a tow service rather than a lonely highway in Oklahoma or Texas.
We started talking about how we will manage with just one vehicle.
We chose to think about how to handle this problem rather than curse the circumstances.
You can’t control circumstances.
You can manage one thing: your thoughts.
You get to choose what you think about. You get to choose what you focus on.
Ep 120 – Lauren Ammon – Train your mind like you train your body.
Mile 73 isn’t the time to figure out how to choose your thoughts.
When your car breaks down, is not the time to figure out how to choose your thoughts.
Train your mind. Choose your mindset.
That’s what I do as a mindset coach.
You train. You practice. Just like training your body.
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