Raising your level of performance requires a proper mentality and meaning from within. This gives you the ability and drive to work on the things necessary to go to a higher level. When people ask me how to raise their level of performance, the first thing I ask is, How important is it to you?
Interpretation
Improving your performance relies on a strong inner drive and understanding of its significance.
Dan Gable emphasizes that to elevate one's performance, it is essential to cultivate the right mindset and derive personal meaning from the pursuit. He stresses that the initial step in this journey is reflecting on the importance of the goals one sets, as true dedication and effort stem from a deeply held belief in those aspirations.
In practice
In a motivational speech to a sports team emphasizing personal goals.
Wrestling is the only sport I've ever competed in that puts you totally in a situation of constant motion without breaks. I could play football or baseball, swim -- but there's always some kind of situation that would break my thoughts, break my concentration.
Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.
When my wrestlers got their hands raised, I jumped for joy.
We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner.
A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no panel of judges to bias the score. In wrestling, you compete or you quit. No alibis. I like that
Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form a conception of yourself as a being of limitless power, and habitually think that you are that being. It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.
God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.
I'm just about that action, boss. I ain't ever see no talking win me nothin'.
The major value of reaching goals is not to acquire it, but it's the person you become while you're working to acquire it.
You've got to remember what your priorities are. When you're playing, what u do on the field is the most important thing.
The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don't want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face.
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