by Jason Treu | Mar 5, 2018
I’m going to show you 5 lessons on how you can run a 4 minute mile like Roger Bannister, and reach any goal you desire. I know…you are already saying, “that’s not possible! I can barely run a 10-minute mile.” No one believed in Roger either. No one believes in your goal, whatever it may be. But that doesn’t matter. The only person that needs to believe it is YOU.
One of my goals in 2018 is to qualify for the Boston Marathon. That’s something very few people do in their first year of running (and I’ve never run more than 5 miles at a time before Thanksgiving 2017). What’s one your goals for this year?
In 1954 Roger Bannister broke the 4-minute mile record. He accomplished something that shattered what people thought was physically and psychologically impossible. Medical personnel and other theorists said that breaking this barrier may be deadly for human beings. Obviously, they were wrong.
What is crazy is that his record only lasted 46 days until John Landry broke it. Once Roger Bannister showed it was possible others then followed.
The 4-minute mile and it being an impossible barrier was a story people made-up and others believed. Limits are self-created not reality.
Roger Bannister shattered that story and myth like you can with any goal.
First of all, just like you, he didn’t have unlimited time or resources. He worked a day job and sometimes could only get in 30-40 minutes of training in each day. He had to run during his lunch breaks, and then go back to work again.
What’s the first lesson? Progress, not perfection.
Second lesson: He broke down the goal into manageable steps (literally!). He broke down every step of the race and figured out how fast/long each stride had to be. He didn’t try to run “as fast as he could run.”
He had a calculated plan to work towards. But even with his plan, sometimes the only thing he could do was run hard because he had limited time. This goes right back to lesson one.
Third lesson: If you get support, any goal becomes much easier. Bannister recruited friends Chris Brasher and Chris Chataway to pace him during the race.
Fourth lesson: It comes down to self-belief. No one thought this was possible except for Roger Bannister (and John Landry) at the time. He had to block out the noise and follow his own path.
Fifth lesson: It comes down to “drive,” not “motivation.” Motivation is fleeting. It’s there and then gone.
Drive comes down to answering two critical questions “why am I doing this?” and “what am I lacking that makes me want this so bad?”
Use these 5 lessons to help you achieve any goal you want. Look, you’ll most likely never be to do all five steps 100% every single day, and that’s not the point. 70-80% will be plenty to achieve it. Remember, lesson one…progress, not perfection.
So what’s one goal you can set today? It doesn’t have to be big. It just has to be something you haven’t done yet.
PS – Bonus 6th lesson: Even after Roger got the record he was criticized. John Landry said he “got help” from others to run the race. Landry broke his record. But that wasn’t the end. They raced each other in the race of the century. Landry lead and Roger won right at the end. Your critics won’t ever go away. Stop listening to the noise.
by Jason Treu | Mar 3, 2018
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by Jason Treu | Mar 2, 2018
“How can I be more confident?” “What can I do to gain more confidence?”
We all want the elusive secret.
We think, “If only I felt more sure of myself, I’d go up to strangers at cocktail parties. Easily get in front of a room and give a talk. Score the promotion at work, instead of watching that guy in the next cubicle get it instead. I’d have more money, be a leader, live the life I want.”
But here’s the conundrum…
We don’t feel confident…to do what it takes to be confident!
I’m going to show you an escape hatch to get out of this tricky self-doubt loop.
First, let’s discuss the thinking that creates it.
“I’ve never been confident??!! So how could I ever be?”
When we lack something in our lives, we see the world through a scarcity mentality. We think of all the times we didn’t have something. We see all the evidence of where we weren’t confident. Sure we may find a time when we were more confident, but we rationalize it as the EXCEPTION NOT THE RULE. Like the saying goes, “seek and ye shall find.”
“That person was born with these skills. They’re a natural at it!”
People assume because someone is confident in one area in their lives, they’ve always been that way. Well, that’s just not correct. No one is born confident. Confidence is a learned behavior. But it’s not a skill you master by brushing your teeth. In order to have confidence, you have to take a leap of faith to create evidence. You become confident by proving to yourself that you are.
“Success has made them confident! If I could do that or have that, I’d be confident too!”
Haven’t you ever met someone who was successful or wealthy who: 1) wasn’t confident? and/or 2) was obsessed with what people thought of them? So if you’re thinking, “if only I had that job/ that partner/ that body,” everything would just fall into place and I’d be confident. Spoiler alert: it’s the opposite.
“If only I was skinnier, wealthier, smarter…I’d be more confident!”
Lack of confidence is also rooted in perfectionism. We can quickly get caught up in comparing ourselves to others. For example, we look at our Facebook News Feed and see the fantastic things going on in other people’s lives. We compare “the news feed” to our lives and focus on all the things we lack. We think if we only had those things, we’d be happier. This comparison mindset leads us to believe nothing we ever do will be good enough. Well, it’s all a huge trap and slippery slope. Even if you had what you thought you lacked, you’ll never be satisfied because there is always another level you’ll want to reach. The key is to learn to be comfortable where you are now, take action and create your own unique journey.
Now that we’ve busted some myths about confidence, here’s what you’re probably wondering next: You’ve been confident in the past so why didn’t it stick?!
We’ve all felt confident before, so you know you are capable of it. In fact, there probably was a time you FELT really confident. But over time, that confidence dissipated and it just seemed like a distant memory.
Can you relate to any of these three situations?
- You’ve walked up, spoken to a stranger and had a fantastic conversation. But six months later, you feel paralyzed and can’t do it.
- You’ve successfully spoken to a group of people at work. But now you feel petrified about doing a presentation.
- You’ve received a promotion for all the great work you did. But you feel completely unsure in your job when you are asked to lead a new project.
WHY does this happen? Confidence is a reflection of how you feel on the INSIDE. It’s a feeling and perception that is closely tied to your emotional state. It comes down to having a feeling of abundance (versus scarcity) in your life (whether you have it or not).
If you believe you lack it, you can’t be confident. Your feeling of lack is directly correlated to your lack of confidence. Think about it, what area of life do you not feel confident in? If you had that handled, how would you feel…more confident, yes? If you felt like that wouldn’t it be easier to take the next “leap of faith?”
So now you are wondering, what’s solution? Where is the escape hatch from this self-doubt loop?
Here is your confidence hack. Think of this as “power posing” for your mind. “Act as if…” Act as if you were what you wanted to be ALREADY. What would that person act like? Think? Feel? You aren’t lying to anyone or yourself or making things up. You are assuming you are in abundance and finding authentic ways to act like it to create the evidence you need to feel confident.
You want to approach your boss for a raise. Think, “What would a confident person do and think? They would know their worth to the company and in the market. They would come in prepared. They would fight for a compensation increase.”
You want to meet the person across the room. Think, “How would a confident person approach a stranger? They’d have direct eye contact. They would have great body posture. They’d ask questions, listen, smile and laugh.”
You have to give a presentation to 50 people. Think, “How would a confident person approach this situation? They’d prepare, practice and believe they are the expert on the topic. They’d get the audience involved. They’d show their passion and excitement. They’d have eye contact with the audience.”
An important question to ask yourself right now is: “What am I acting as if will happen in the most important areas of my life?” You will often get what you expect to happen.
Here is your three-step solution:
- Identify one thing you want to happen right now
- Model your thoughts, actions, and feelings of someone who has what you want
- Get the evidence you need to feel confident
So take action and make it real!
by Jason Treu | Feb 20, 2018
When you do what most other people do, you will have what most other people have. Most people are miserable and unhappy, and their lives don’t work. They live in a world where they are lost and without hope. So just understand that that is where that information is coming from. Those limitations are learned and we create certainty around it, so we can’t be wrong.
The only place that the reality of that exists is in the conversations we have about it and in our agreement that’s how it is. Other than that, it’s open to change. In other words, if you are telling yourself that you have money, often times you say a thousand dollars or ten thousand dollars. Ten thousand is just as easy to have as one thousand is, if you believe that it is. It’s only based on your belief that it would be harder, and you’ve been told that it’s harder. You’ve programmed your mind to work that way. It’s coming from society and people trapped inside their own perceived limitations. And so, it’s just as easy, and in fact can be easier, based on your beliefs, to aim higher.
Nicole Antoinette discussed how she wanted to get over her fear of public speaking. She could have started small and spoke to a group of 10 people, and then 20 people, and so on. But she decided to speak in front of 1,000 people first! Why waste your time and build up over time when you can just do it now.
Check out my podcast, Executive Breakthroughs, where successful people show you how they got past their limiting beliefs to create amazing success stories and change the lives of millions of people.
by Jason Treu | Feb 8, 2018
To improve business performance at least once you should go through the Jason Treu podcast episodes. You can listen simple audio of his podcast. Through this, managers, executives, and entrepreneurs are self-motivated to create their unique identity in the market. His plans will help you to win the challenge. Podcast makes you a better leader, investor, and problem-solver.
