- We're all born with the ability to achieve greatness,
it's inside all of us.
So, in this video, I'm going to share
Michael Jordan's phenomenal winning mindset,
and how you can develop a winning mindset too,
and be unstoppable.
Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time
and I know that people who are great leave clues
that we can learn from, and it's easy to say,
"But Michael Jordan was given a gift of athleticism,"
but that's not correct.
His gift was not that he could run faster,
jump higher, shoot better.
His gift was that he trained his mind
to be the mindset of a winning athlete.
So, if you want to have a winning mindset,
you don't have to be a winning athlete,
you can be a winning business person.
You could be winning in your health, in your relationships.
But if you don't have a winning mindset,
you don't have very much at all.
So, let's look at Michael Jordan.
Michael Jordan had a growth mindset
and he understood that, even if you have a gift,
you also have to work.
The best gift in the world
isn't enough if you don't work,
and so he practiced every day.
Sometimes he'd practice twice a day,
he practiced on holidays, he practiced on weekends.
And many years ago,
I worked with an athlete who said,
"Do you know, I just read that Michael Jordan
"even practiced on Christmas day?
"So, I practiced on Christmas day, because I thought,
"'Well, I'm going to be as successful as he is,
"'I better do what he does.'"
When you have that kind of mindset,
you only focus on winning.
You don't focus on losing, you ignore that.
You have, what I call, the bounce-back factor.
You become like a big rubber ball, and you bounce back,
because every person who is amazing has had a loss.
They haven't always won, but they will never refer to that.
They only refer to the winning.
Winning is everything.
Many of my athletes say,
"People who say that winning doesn't matter have never won."
In competitive sports, winning is everything.
And you need to get that winning mindset in business,
even in your relationships, certainly in sport.
You must have the mindset of, "I will win,
"I will do whatever it takes to win.
"I'll train.
"I'll train when it's cold,
"I'll train when it's icy,
"I'll train when I'm tired." That's a winning mind.
So, a losing mind says, "I'll do it tomorrow,
"I'm a bit tired. It's raining out there.
"I didn't really need to do it today."
A winning mindset is no excuses.
You see, a winner doesn't say, "Oh, I've hurt my knee."
They go, "Well, I've hurt my knee,
"so I'll just do arm exercises."
"I've hurt my foot,
"so I'll just do upper body."
You cannot have excuses,
you have to take daily action.
A winning mindset is incredibly resilient.
Again, it's that bounce-back factor.
A winning mindset is passion.
And the great thing is, when you do something
you are passionate about, you start to love it,
and then it never feels like work.
I've always believed, when you do what you love,
you never really work a day in your life,
because you do what you love, and you love what you do.
And many of the Olympic athletes I work with
say they have to train their mind to not hear the crowd
if the crowd is negative,
but to really tune into the crowd when
the crowd is positive. I work with football players,
all kinds of athletes,
and they have to go into the zone, and into the zone
means everything narrows down,
except for the game you're playing,
the way your body is moving,
and the thoughts you are thinking in your head,
and you can only think of winning.
So, I worked with a football team
who wanted to go into the Premier League,
and I made them put on Viking hats with the
horns coming out and paint blue paint on their faces.
And they had to imagine that Vikings always said,
"The only way home is straight through our enemy.
"We win or we die."
You've probably heard about burning their bridges
so there was no way back,
and that actually has turned out not to be true,
but it's a great metaphor.
So, if you want to win in your professional life,
if you want to win at sport,
if you want to win at being healthy,
you have to have that mindset,
"Okay,
"I've got an athlete's mindset."
An athlete doesn't say, "I'm not going to the gym,
"it's raining,"
"there's ice on my car, I'm not in the mood,
"I had a fight with my partner,
"I need cake to cheer me up."
An athlete keeps their eye on the prize,
"I want a gold medal at the next Olympics,
"and I will do whatever it takes to get there."
So, if you're not well,
if you've got some issues, you again
need this winning mindset.
"What will I do to be well?"
When I was given a horrible diagnosis, I remember saying,
"I'll do anything, anything, to be well."
And that involved eating mostly green vegetables,
taking a lot of supplements,
doing things that I didn't have a mindset to do,
but I wanted it at all costs.
And that's Michael Jordan's mindset.
"I want this at all costs, what am I prepared to do?
"What am I prepared to give?
"How much of myself will I give to my goal?"
So what do you want?
What do you really, really want?
Is it love?
Is it health?
Is it wealth?
Is it sporting prize?
Is it having your own business?
Is you getting promoted?
Getting noticed, and then decide, "Okay,
"how do I get that winning mindset?"
Well, think, "Hey, what would Michael Jordan do?
"What would Madonna do?
"What would Adele do?
"What would Rihanna do?"
They would do anything.
You know, J. Lo said, "I never eat cake.
"I've never eaten cake, I'm J. Lo. J. Lo doesn't eat cake."
You see, what she's saying is very smart, "This is who I am.
"This is not what I do; it's who I am.
"I am a healthy woman on stage,
"looking amazing, defying age."
But when I do things, I say, "This is who I am.
"I don't eat cake, I don't drink soda,
"I don't stay up late all night,
"and then sleep in all morning.
"I'm an athlete."
MicK Jagger is the same.
He is on stage.
He practices his dance moves over and over again,
he eats a very particular diet. And it's not what he does,
it's who he is.
So, let me give you a Michael Jordan mindset.
And that Michael Jordan mindset is,
"The gift is not your talent,
it's what you do with your talent." Because, honestly,
talent without belief won't get you far.
But you can have a belief and very little talent,
and it can get you everywhere.
So, first of all, have a growth mindset.
"What am I prepared to do to get to where I want to be?
"And I'm prepared to have no excuses,
"I won't have excuses.
"I will have a bounce-back factor.
"I don't focus on failure,
"I focus on what I've achieved so far.
"I am resilient.
"I commit. I earn my success.
"I follow through,
"and I just don't allow myself to focus on a fear.
"And I see a delay as a delay, not a denial."
You see, champions have beliefs. Champions in the boardroom,
champions in the bedroom, champions in the gym,
champions in the kitchen,
champions as parents have beliefs.
And your beliefs are yours to change.
Your beliefs are yours to upgrade.
You make your beliefs,
and then your beliefs turn around to make you.
Michael Jordan chose to make some incredible beliefs.
Muhammad Ali said, "I am the greatest,
"I told myself that before I knew it was true,
"and now it's true."
Arnold Schwarzenegger said,
"Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way,
"shape, or form. I hope it never does."
I don't have to agree with that,
but what a great belief it was for him.
So, make your beliefs.
Your beliefs will then turn around and make you,
and then the world will start to match
what you have chosen to believe.
Give yourself winning beliefs,
and you will be a winner in everything you do,
in more than one thing.
You can be a winner in your professional life,
in your personal life, and in your health.
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