Analyzing Your Behaviors in Positive Self development for Sport and Life
Self-development is the process of learning and improving you. It means taking responsibility for your actions and behavior. This is achieved through a continuous practice of assessment, reflection and action.
You can learn from your past experience and from events that happen around you. In both the cases, you have to analyze and understand the cause-effect relationship of your actions, behavior, reactions and fear. Once you analyze them, a pattern will emerge and you will be able to ascertain why you behaved or acted or reacted in the way you did. You can then chart out a plan to overcome your problems and fears. This will result in substantial leap in the way you think and act. In short, it will lead to self-development.
Self-development has multifarious effects on individuals. It makes them very confident, reliant and motivated. They will believe in what they do. They will be in a position to stand up for what they think is right. It makes them highly motivated.
A motivated individual can achieve anything. Sports are no exception. Self-development will drive an individual to have faith in him/herself to accomplish his/her goals. Such motivated individuals will work hard towards their achieving their dream.
In order to be successful in any sport, one must be healthy physically, mentally and emotionally. Physical fitness can be obtained by the intake of nutritious food and water and by working out. There are various techniques to tone your body. They include weight training, Pilate’s workout, and aerobics among others. Yoga also helps you to attain a balance of equanimity.
The mental and emotional health is of paramount importance if you want to excel in sports as well as in life. This can be achieved only by taking a conscious understanding and realization of your inner-mind. Some practices like meditation help you to delve deep into your mind and to understand its nuances.
One must learn to be positive and optimistic in life. You must not let the negative forces that exist around you to influence your thoughts and actions in anyway. You must avoid these influences from your life. When you do this, you are left with only positive thoughts and this will propel you forward in life. You can achieve new heights.
Motivation can make an individual perform anything in spite of their challenges. It will inspire a physically challenged individual to perform things that he/she thought was impossible. There have been incidents where motivation has driven physically challenged individuals to climb mountains. The Sherpa are people who live in the Himalayan foothills. They help mountaineers in their climb towards Mount Everest. There was a Sherpa who was physically challenged and he had climbed the mountain more than a dozen times. What made him accomplish this feat? It is his self-confidence and his faith that he will be able to do it. This state can be attained through self-development.
Sportsmen who have excelled in their respective fields are those that have dedication, passion and motivation. Their passion helps them get a single-minded devotion towards their goals. They don’t respond to anything else around them. They are not distracted by what others do or think. All this is because they believe in themselves and in their ability to surge forward. They are motivated to accomplish their dream. They dedicate their life in achieving it. When they finally accomplish, their victory tastes like nectar and everything else around them seems insignificant compared to their achievement. They are individuals who have undergone the complete development of self and mind.
The path to success and their ability to overcome the roadblocks in it is what makes a sportsman truly great and legendary
Author: Claus & Ingrid Dreyer
