Maxime Sigouin

Every morning, I write in my notebook thoughts from the previous night and lessons from the previous day so that I can learn from my own actions.

I'm personally taking on some new challenges in my life with basketball and I find myself having some "fear of failure" in that area.

Now bare with me, this isn't a newsletter about basketball ahah, I will tie this whole lesson up to body recomposition beautifully at the end but read carefully as the lessons applies to any area of life you are trying to improve like health and body recomposition regardless of your age.

I was telling myself:

"What if I fail? What if it doesn't work out? I've made this goal public to over 34,000 people online!"

I'm human just like you, haha, BUT what I think allows me to always get to my goals is two things. One, I catch myself in that self-talk and I remind myself that there is no such thing as failure.

Only the fact that I took some action and that it produced an outcome, and if that outcome isn't what I wanted, then I need to course correct and change the action I am taking to try and produce the outcome I want and for me to keep repeating that pattern until I actually produce the outcome (results), I want.

I'll also give you a little hack I found to "limit" the amount of "imperfect action" I need to take to try and produce the right outcome I want, and this isn't to say that I won't mess up a bunch of time it simply means I'll mess up less.

My hack is to hire an expert in that field to bring down the amount of "incorrect" actions I need to take to produce the outcome I want.

That's precisely what I did for basketball when I committed to pursuing that goal. I hired a local coach to train me here once a week and an NBA trainer to train with me every two months (as it's pretty far from my house) so that I could learn from them, have them tell me exactly what I need to improve on, and have them build me a game plan around that.

I personally hate (and I know it's a big word) wasting time building a plan that I'm not sure will be the most efficient. I always hire an expert whenever I commit to a new goal.

That's the same thing I did at the beginning of the year when starting the process of writing my book. I texted all my friends who had written books and who were New York Times Best Sellers and paid them for one hour of their time to pass off their knowledge of the writing and publication process.

Stay tuned for tomorrows post to learn the 2 things I do to crush my goals 🌱 💪

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