The Hard 90 With Zach Sorensen

Adversity makes you stronger and gets you one step closer to excellence.

As you are chasing excellence, don't forget to maintain positivity to reach your goals. 

When things get hard, you push harder; when you fail, you get back up stronger; when you don’t see results, you don’t get discouraged, but you just continue to pound away day, after day, after day, with relentlessness, consistency, heart, and passion—that’s grit.

Book breakdown of my current Favorite book by Ben Bergeron titled "Chasing Excellence" where he stresses the importance of focusing on character first. The first quality a successful athlete needs is commitment.

You will believe the story you tell yourself every day.  What is your story?

“The Brain Simply Believes What You Tell It Most.” Shad Helmstetter Ph.D.

Start using "you" or your name instead of "I" in your self talk. With this, it appears as you are coaching yourself instead of telling yourself what to do.

What stage of self-talk do you live in?

1. Negative

2. I "should not" stage

3. Declaration stage based on negative statement - I will never ....... again.

4. Positive declaration of who you aspire to be.

5. Being one with a higher power.

Rumble strips alert you when you are out of your lane, wake you up, and get you back on track.  What are your built in rumble strips?

What are the confidence conditioning or positive affirmation statements that you need to be saying to yourself on a daily basis?

One of my favorite childhood stories teaches us about The Optimist And The Pessimist.  You have the choice to be whichever one you want.