Your Personal Best: How Do You Compete?

There’s a peace and honor that comes with doing your personal best in any given situation. “Personal Best”, this means you know that in any given moment, you were at your best.

Understanding how to beat your personal best is a thought process. It is a mental attitude that supports your focus so you can identify the boundaries that you need to expand. What is, – what ought to be, what can be, your new personal best.

Nowhere more than in a golf game is the calibration easily accessible. After you score your round, you know. Good bad, wrong or right – did you play your personal best? Did you beat your personal best? Another perfect example from golf is from the professional golfer. The amount of cuts a player makes in a row is an excellent barometer of momentum from playing to be the best you can be, the best to beat your personal best, each and every time they step on the golf course for a tournament.

In order for your thought process to give you the empowering belief you can and will beat your personal best you have to come from the truth.

Intelligently and precisely, distinguishing between feelings and facts in the moment means you need mental preparation to work on your personal best. First step, be realistic about your performance and create strategies to take yourself to the next level. Second, create value in knowing anything is possible and thirdly, know in a competitive situations you cannot enjoy the luxury of a negative thought.

You’re going to have good days and bad days, good and bad seasons, good and bad chapters. Somehow find it within you to get it done! Take pride to giving it your all – always, your personal best in all you do. Be process-orientated, research shows repetition is the mother of skill. Don’t accept the limits others put on you- no other expectations are more important than the ones you can put on yourself and expect of yourself.

Want to win more without thinking? Pay attention to the knowing of your personal best. Because it is never about the other person, or the course – so give it up!

Win or lose your are still the same person, life goes on. It is your commitment to excellence that makes you the best you can be, not your win-loss record or what is in your bank account.

Go experiment. Focusing on your personal best could be a new way of thinking of how to make the best use of your talent, and life.