I truly believe the mind is 100% key to successful running. Its got me through 87 Marathons (in all 50 states)

_Jim Lynch twitter:  @authorjimlynch

Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.

~ Albert Einstein

It’s part of why visualization works.  Our thoughts are all translated into images and those images are dress rehearsals for our life.  For example, if you continually imagine hardship you are rehearsing hardship.  If you imagine ease, fulfillment and joy you are rehearsing it which then gives it a better chance of happening.

When you are thinking about a race and you imagine it being joyful, fulfilling and fun then you are rehearsing these images and feelings ~ marinating yourself in it and basically manifesting it to happen.

Dave Scott (Ironman Champion) made a great video giving you a mindset lesson.  He talks about mindfulness in your races & training.  What is mindfulness?  It’s an ancient way of saying staying in the moment.   It’s part of releasing the fear ~ watch the short video you’ll see..

What do you practice?  Do you practice self doubt or do you practice believing in yourself?

I’m pretty sure that you’ve already learned that when you practice something you become better at it.  Hummmmm so what if that works for self belief too?

I hear people all the time marinating themselves in self doubt.  If you are looking to have much deeper self belief in everything that you do, including athletics, then marinate yourself in self belief.  Practice self belief!

Practice believing in yourself just like you would start practicing anything else.  Start one step at a time like, I’m going to fully believe in myself for this training session today right now.   I’m going to “practice” believing in myself for this training session.

Try it ~ you will be surprised. Remember, the more you practice it the more natural it becomes.