Only Those Who Dare, Truly Live offers a simple, powerful approach to reaching your goals. This book is an excellent compliment to Power Month as it will inspire you to maintain high motivation levels and overcome self-limiting beliefs that can hinder your progress towards personal and athletic goals. Many of us ‘know what we need to do’ to improve our lives and realize our dreams, we are just stuck in thought and behavior patterns that hinder our progress.
Only Those Who Dare, Truly Live will detail a seven-step process, complete with written exercises, that will enable you to make new discoveries about yourself and achieve breakthroughs that lead to peak performance. Author Brad Kearns uses inspirational examples from his professional triathlon career that parallel the instructions in each of the steps.
The seven steps are briefly detailed as follows:
Discover what you really want – This first step towards your goals is a backwards step - slow down in your busy life to gain some perspective on how you are living. Reflect upon and clarify a higher purpose or special talents that may be your calling
Discover what’s in the way – We are often plagued by self-limiting beliefs that lead to lifestyle, environment and behavior factors that sabotage your goals
Destroy what’s in the way – Destroy and Re-Frame self-limiting beliefs into new empowering ones that are realistic and positive. This allows you to gather momentum for a fresh new approach to a challenge or overcome setbacks with a positive, pro-active attitude
Breathe, Relax, Take a Vacation – It is during breaks from our normal, hectic lives that clear thinking and healthy, positive motivation builds. These rest periods allow us to gather the energy and inspiration we need to tackle challenges.
Plug in the Mechanics – Laying out a specific plan to reach goals is important, but you must realize that mechanics are less important than intention. With a clear and powerful intention, you will be able to respond to the inevitable change with new mechanics instead of feeling defeated.
Understand and Cultivate Your Powerful Motivators – Sources of motivation can be characterized as deep or superficial. The most powerful approach is to combine both. You can remain passionately committed to tangible, superficial results (making $ or winning titles) but must always be connected to a deeper purpose in your career or your athletics.
Behave Outrageously to Facilitate Change – Stepping outside your normal comfort zone to do something dramatic will have a powerful and lasting impact on your beliefs and behavior patterns. Achieving peak performance takes courage and commitment, qualities that can be developed from outrageous acts.