The Addictive, All-Or-Nothing Personality:
Your Strongest Tool Or Your Worst Enemy? "Harnessing the
Power"- Part 4
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All or Nothing 4
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By
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From reading the first three
installments you have a fairly broad and clear understanding
of the traits a person with this type of personally faces,
the good the bad and the ugly. In this final installment I
will give some recommendations on how to harness those traits
and make them work for you.
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Explain how you can twist even the
proposed negatives and learn to control them to work in your favor.
How to harness your natural ability to make things happen along
with a tendency to go over board. Give a few systems you can use
alone, or combined, to reach even greater heights, and do so with
no, or minimal personal damage.
"You can't"
Love it, enjoy and relish in your
ability to prove this statement wrong. Just the simple realization
that this is your on signal your gas pedal is the number one thing
we must do. We can then learn how to manage ourselves and that not
every single time we are challenged do we have to prove this wrong.
Though I believe many or most times it can be a very positive thing
to, but just be sure and..
"Pick your
Battles"
Have your goals clear in your mind.
Write them down. We know how to accept the negative in any situation
and live with them. So be sure that you are not taking on a something
out of line with your greater goals just do to being challenged.
We have a tendency to get a bit ADD and take on multiple goals at
once thoroughly convinced in our own head we will win them all at
the same time even if they compete against one another.
We need to learn to be a bit more
laser sharp with our power and focus and put it into one or a few
related goals at once, only take on so MUCH. Pick a few things and
Knock them out of the park prior to moving to the next one. A bit
of management will allow you to make even greater progress, even
faster, and more enjoyable due to.
Managing Your Stress"
Remember we thrive on this but have
a tendency to load on to much of a good thing at times to the point
of being over whelmed, That's when we act, and often do our best,
When we are on the verge of breaking we really tend to make things
happen.
Try and learn to manage this a bit
more and act a bit earlier, just the act of choosing your battles
like above will help this as you wont have varied competing goals
going at once, but as well even If you have multiple glass try and
learn to act a bit sooner, Let your skills shine prior to being
overloaded and a BIG one..
"Have a Release
Valve"
We tend to get very laser focused
and jump head first into thing and drop all other parts of our lives
and people we know and love. That's largely OK but try and schedule
a bit of a breather. Give your self at least one escape hatch, maybe
it's a night a week, a day you can try and let stuff go. Then its
BACK at it.
We cant drop our whole selves we work
best when we are loaded and focused on a goal, Knocking things down
left and right living to beat what it is we have taken on, That
shouldn't change but if we take a simple step back her and there
for even a few hours or one day it can keep us with even greater
charge and fire to keep attacking and likely will keep those around
us, friends family a bit more sane.
We have a tendency to be misinterpreted
by those close to us due to our ability to block things out and
our laser focus. People have a tendency to feel shorter, say we
are cold, or feel we don't care and that's not it at all. Its simply
who and how we are this is how we attack our day, our goals and
they need to realize that and that just because we are 100% focused
on some goal at this point does not mean they aren't in our heads
as well, or we don't care.
Its very much the opposite but this
is just how we work. We have to be around strong and or understanding
people. Those that understand your type and if we give that or those
small release valves and then Back at our goal the majority of our
days we and they will both be in a better place to making progress
with les grief.
We as well by default are very strong
people and don't let a thing get to us, but I don't care how strong
you are you at some point need a break, need a release as well.
You have to have that person, that time, or place that you can go
and not be needed to act. That you can relax as all other parts
of your life are action.
Again you have to have some strong
people around you as well that don't always need, but you all can
just be, relax and refuel. We have a tendency to take on so many
things, tasks and people in need, helping working, building that
these small releases in time and with people are a must or you'll
start to overheat.
Cycle Your Extremes
Learn to be all go and then learn
to shut it DOWN and have times you coast and recharge. We can have
a tendency to try and turn a sprint into a marathon. The two are
like oil and water. Learn to cycle your training your life, and
your attacks at Large long term goals. Periodize them. Take sharp
sprints up the mountain then take some time to make slow progress,
set camp and rest then UP again.
You cant go all out to long before
you crash and burn, and man do we ever have a tendency to do that.
We hit it in passing gear, pedal on the floor and never let off,
and not just to the point that the cars smoking a bit, we keep her
pegged Long past that and will rap it out tell she blows. Then we
just end up on that yoyo or roller coaster.
That path you see many do out of choice
the path that NEVER gets anyone to any great goal. That perpetual
gain. Lose, gain lose, two steps forward to back approach. You don't
want to ride that coaster, Those people are usually right next to
most of the people that try and make that Very slow calculated progress.
Trying to slowly skate a few lines
at once and make gentle gradual progress on tow or more goals. They
usually end up maybe half way up and or all those roads, or little
better and never really reach anything great as they don't concentrate
on one or give it the passion or attention it needs.
Let it rip, hit the gas, take a NICE
big step out of the comfort zone, but learn to shut down the afterburners
down prior to over heating and keep a more sane and gradual climb
up the road to your goal going while the engines cool for another
big Thrust. After a nice big shot out of the norm take a minute
to get used to your advances prior to Hitting it again and then
short pit stops along the way after you reach some heights you had
set.
This spikes and gradual climb approach
will have you making very fast and consistent progress up what ever
mountain you choose and by managing the stressors of those sprints
you'll end up hitting your top speed more often and for a longer
total time reaching those goals faster, our with the car in closer
to one piece then had you put her to the floor the whole trip.
Lastly.
"Smash the
Squirrel, Stop for the Deer"
Its OK if on the road you blindly
run down a squirrel or two, but keep an eye open for those larger
critters you might be losing sight of or ignoring they can make
a wreck of your road in a hurry. Learn to use and control the power
you have to turn things off. To ignore pain, pleasure, physical,
emotional and tangible objects or people. Much like picking your
battles, try and be a little more in tune with what your blocking
out.
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Make sure your
empowering you and not falsely empowering and actually giving
that something power over you. Make sure your not ignoring
something in the long term that is actually leading to great
damage that you have not first recognized, and accepted, as
a something that's needed to reach your goals, and therefore
made a none issue. It can be easy to lose sight or let your
power to ignore get out of hand.
That's it. It covers
the bases and basic of a very powerful set of personality
traits
I hope this strikes
some good dialogue and can be good for both those with these
personality traits, and those who seek to adopt a few of these.
Giving you some pointer in how to use them what they are and
what to look out for.
So
I'll just leave you with an empowering "You Can't"
Go prove
me wrong
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About The Author
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Coach Phil Stevens is an accomplished
strength athlete with considerable experience in both powerlifting
and strongman competition. Phil is the 2007 APA World Champion
in the 242-pound class (total). He currently holds the APF
275-pound class raw National bench, squat, deadlift, and total
records. Phil’s marquis lift was his 700-pound raw deadlift,
performed on February 14, 2009 in Phoenix, Arizona.
Phil has been ranked in the
“Top 10” in the deadlift Nationally across all powerlifting
federations, and in addition to his coaching duties at Staley
Training Systems, he also serves as the Arizona State Chair
for the North American Highlander Association, as well as
the founder of Lift For Hope, an annual strength-competition
with proceeds donated to Charity (www.Lift4Hope.org).
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