Push Yourself to Excel

Push yourself to excel. Go beyond your idea of what is possible. If you lift weights, push yourself on from the 10th repetition to 11, then to 12, and then 13, and so on.

It is in those additional repetitions that the advancement and growth occur.

Do the things you didn’t think were possible for you to do.

As you are pushing yourself, remember that you are growing, developing, and expanding.

You gain confidence by looking back on your accomplishments and realizing you have the ability to achieve more.

When Edmund Hillary made his first attempt to climb to the peak of Mt. Everest, he was unable to reach the summit.

When he returned to base camp from his failed attempt, it is said that he looked up at the mountain and said, “You defeated me! But you won't defeat me again! Because you have grown all you can grow ... but I am still growing!”

You will never stop growing!

When you do something, you gain confidence that you can do it again. When you go beyond what you believe you can do, you gain confidence that you can overcome any perceived limits. When you surpass your supposed limitations in a few areas of your life, you start realizing you can overcome self-imposed restrictions in all different areas of your life. That allows your self-confidence to grow and to build momentum, which helps you to grow and develop even more.

This is not about special people who are different; it’s about you!

Surround yourself with reminders of your past success!

The other thing you need to do is to have friends who see your potential and your abilities. They can see the person you can become and will be able to help you push yourself onward.

I belong to a Mastermind Group that gets together every month to explain what it is we each desire. Every member of the group then desires that the other members will achieve what they are setting out to do.

It is a phenomenal process. Because you have other people who desire for you to achieve your goals and believe that what you want is actually possible, it is easier to keep striving and pushing yourself to succeed.

Confident people are confident because they push themselves!