Thursday, November 4, 2010

My First Post...may it inspire you....

To the probably millions of people who will be reading this....let me give you a background on myself.  My name is RJ, and I'm not going to lie.  I've had a pretty good life thus far.  Sure I've had my fair share of let-downs and frustrations, a lot of which have struck me in the past couple of months.  My twenties have been by far, the most confusing 6 years of my life, but yet the most enlightening.

Now up until recently, I have always been a pretty confident individual.  Then I went through some tough times, causing my confidence to drop, and my guard to skyrocket.  Now I've always been a motivational book fan, and I'm halfway through a book that has really changed my perspective on things.  I've learned that you can change your physiology to achieve any kind of mindset you want.  This may sound stupid, but every morning when I get out of the shower and get ready, I wink at myself in the mirror.  Yes ladies and gents, you heard right.  Laugh all you want, but try it.  If you're not into that, the next time you wake up in a foul mood or have a heavy heart or a lot on your mind, just make a really goofy face in the mirror and try to stay in a bad mood after that.  It's all about maintaining discipline over your mind and using your own body's physiology to maintain the correct mood.

Speaking from experience, these changes don't occur overnight, and it takes repetition to create the lasting change and midset you want/need to achieve.  Now I golf, and the sport can be extremely frustrating.  I've have had days where I have shot wonderfully and everything went how I wanted.  I've also have had days where I didn't feel like I changed anything, but constantly shanked shots and ended up in the rough way more than in the fairway.  What I figured out is that by changing the angle I hit the ball by just a millimeter, it changes the arch and trail of the ball dramatically.  That can be related to making changes in my life as well.  Sometimes the tiniest changes yield the biggest results.  All it takes is that little build up of momentum to roll your life in the right direction.

So I originally intended for this initial post to be funny and light, but I guess I'll settle for inspirational instead.  I'm going to end with a quote, since I can't really sum things up any better than this:

"When it seems impossible, when it seems like nothing is going to work, you're usually just a few millimeters away from making it happen." - Tony Robbins