Written By: Cary Mullen, Olympian, World Cup Champion & Author of HOW to Win. (More information about Cary can be found at www.MortgageSpeakersBureau.com.)
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Winning Tips:
- Manage your anger and you will manage your success. Know that there are as many ways to experience an event as there are people. Ask yourself: is my anger serving me or is it just serving to defeat me? Then choose your reaction.
- Realize that all events can be used to your advantage. You just need to remind yourself that "this is to my advantage if I can figure out how to use it to my advantage" and you will be on your way. This winning mindset will help catapult you ahead of your competitors.
- Train yourself to quickly counter limiting beliefs. Once you accept that some things are out of your control, you spend less time struggling against the inevitable and more time focused on winning.
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As the clock ticked down to the start of the World Cup Downhill Ski Race in Sierra Nevada, Spain, I knew I was ready. Not ready in the sense of "I've got my skis and goggles on, I'm not carrying any injuries". No, I mean ready - I'd never been so ready for anything in my entire life.
All year I'd trained for this race. I was at the peak of my form. I got the perfect amount of sleep the night before, I ate the perfect meal at the perfect time. My muscles were limber, I was psyched-up. By the time I was heading for the start line, only 100ft. away, I was in the zone, primed to dive down those slopes when the clock counted down.
Then the announcement came over the loudspeaker that stopped me dead in my tracks: "All downhill race competitors please return to the lodge."
What?
"The race has been delayed due to a heavy tailwind."
Delayed?
"We'll update you in two hours time whether the race will go ahead or not."
Hey, whoa, hold on a second! I trained all year for this and now you're telling me it might not even go ahead? Now, with less than a minute away from start-time? What the heck is going on?
You could see the steam of my breath up there in the mountains, but I swear, right then, you could probably see steam coming out of my ears too. I was rumbling like a volcano. And when I got back to the lodge, I saw I wasn't along - a lot of my competitors were slamming their helmets on the ground and pounding their fists on the table. Everyone was furious, complaining out loud - and I was right in there with them.
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