KEYS TO SUCCESS WITH MATT CROWDREY!!!!!
SELF RELIANCE WITH A SUPER-FISH
Matt Cowdrey (born 22nd Dec 1988)is Australia’s new ‘super fish’ after collecting his fifth gold medal and fourth world record at the Beijing Paralympics. His achievements also saw him awarded Paralympian and Male Athlete of Year at this year’s Paralympian of the Year Awards.
He won five gold medals – all in world record times – and three silver medals, placing him at the top of the individual medal count for the Paralympics. This eclipsed his medal haul at Athens in 2004 of three gold, two silver and two bronze, and earned him the role of flag bearer for the Australian team Even before the Beijing Games had begun, Matt had already achieved Paralympics, World Championship and Commonwealth Games glory.
Born with a congenital amputation to his lower left arm, Matt broke his first Australian open record at age 11 and his first world record at age 13. He has since gone on to break more than 70 world records at the Beijing closing ceremony
Outside of sport, he balances a full training program with studying for a double degree in law and media at the University of Adelaide.
Check out the valuable lessons from Matt and the comments from his mother in this amazing story:
Laurie Lawrence (one of the most successful sport coaches) once said: “When you get a talented person who is prepared to pay the prize you will have a superstar!” Matt Crowdrey is in my eyes the ultimate definition of a superstar. Matt stated that when he is in moments of success he is not focussed on anyone else or any other thought process. He is complete in the moment and things just happen. How profound. We often seem so occupied with things around us. What people think of us or how we would look like to the outside world.
The only way to succeed as a human being is to do things for yourself. Matt was told by his parents to do things for himself. So often do we shift the responsibility or blame external factor for our own results. Matt Cowdrey is a perfect rolmodel for all of us to take full responsibility for our own creation. We are truly the creators of our own universe.
So thank you Matt for raising the bar again. You are a true inspiration to me and I will follow your performance very closely.
Paul Mantel – http://www.livelifeco.com
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GOING DOWNHILL…WITH GRATITUDE FOR HERMANN MAIER
ACHIEVING SUCCESS IN VANCOUVER OLYMPIC GAMES 2010
Being a real ski ‘bum’ myself I am always super excited when the winter Olympics are coming up. My favorite event is, with no doubt the Alpine skiing (particularly the Downhill). Having skied the famous world cup run in Kitzbuhl myself (not in competition but on my holidays, may I add) I do have some sort of an indication about the level of self confidence and self reliance the top skiers must have in how to succeed when they go down these insane runs.
Alpine skiing has been practiced in the European Alps for at least 150 years. In addition to adapting cross-country techniques to suit their steeper slopes, alpine skiers also found they needed slightly wider skis to go downhill safely, and developed different ways to use their poles and new turning techniques to match the more vertical terrain of the high mountains.
Alpine skiing for both men and women debuted as an Olympic sport in 1936 at Garmisch-Partenkirchen. In 1948, separate downhill and slalom races were added. From that time, super combined was not contested at an Olympic Winter Games until 1988, in Calgary. The giant slalom was added in 1952, and the super-G in 1988.
The downhill event features the longest course and the highest speeds in alpine skiing. Each skier makes a single run down a single course. The fastest time determines the winner.
How to succeed for the Canadian team will probably come down to the right selection as there will be fierce competition within the Canadian team(Guay, Kucera, Hudec and Osborne-Paradis). Maybe this will lead to beating the Austrians. With the retirement of Hermann Maier, the Austrians will have to come up with a bunch of success strategies. And what a super location for the Olympics, having great memories from Whistler myself. I just can’t wait
With gratitude for the legend Hermann Maier!!!!
Paul Mantel – http://www.livelifeco.com
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Achieve succes with building your self image!!
ACHIEVE SUCCES WITH BUILDING YOUR SELF IMAGE!
During my training and coaching experiences with top and Olympic athletes I was so intrigued about the learning process of athletes and people in general. I was completely fascinated and absorb by the ability and change that young talented players could succeed in their sporting career. Unfortunately I have seen so many talented players who didn’t succeed while they had the potential to do so. Why is that? Why do we see so many talented people around us who are so capable and have everything going for them not succeed?
During my final year at university I wrote my thesis about talent development and I was so curious to find out why so much talent goes wasted. During our selection period for qualification of the youth National team we went through extensive selection periods to select the most talented players. Not all of these young players developed themselves to achieve success as a top athlete. As a matter of fact only the 3 % will make it to an Olympic games.
During my research one of the main factors in talent development is the importance of their self- image and of the role their image can play in the creation and upgrading of the self-image/building confidence. The self-image can be changed since the subconscious is incapable of differentiating between real success and a success imagined again and again vividly and in full detail.
Winners feel the emotion of the gold medal, they feel the emotion about achieving goals before they achieved them, they gain confidence by repeating those feelings vividly and consistently, they feel the self-esteem of their personal achievement in advance! Your behaviour and performance- in sport, in business, in relationships- usually are consistent with yourself image.
Winners control their self-image and change it as they desire. They elevate their self-image and enlarge their universe. What do you “see” for you today? Who will you be tomorrow? Think Win! There is no time to lose!
Paul Mantel