Raising your level of performance requires a proper mentality and meaning from within. This gives you the ability and drive to work on the things necessary to go to a higher level. When people ask me how to raise their level of performance, the first thing I ask is, How important is it to you?
Interpretation
Improving your performance relies on a strong inner drive and understanding of its significance.
Dan Gable emphasizes that to elevate one's performance, it is essential to cultivate the right mindset and derive personal meaning from the pursuit. He stresses that the initial step in this journey is reflecting on the importance of the goals one sets, as true dedication and effort stem from a deeply held belief in those aspirations.
In practice
In a motivational speech to a sports team emphasizing personal goals.
Wrestling is the only sport I've ever competed in that puts you totally in a situation of constant motion without breaks. I could play football or baseball, swim -- but there's always some kind of situation that would break my thoughts, break my concentration.
Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.
When my wrestlers got their hands raised, I jumped for joy.
We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner.
A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no panel of judges to bias the score. In wrestling, you compete or you quit. No alibis. I like that
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
There's nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.
Don't worry about looking good - worry about achieving your goals.
You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable.
Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it
All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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