There is a fine line between arrogance and confidence. The key ingredient, the single most important ingredient, the essential ingredient, get the idea, I think this one has value, is confidence. It's that cat and the lion in the mirror. You believe you can do it. If you have that confidence you can do it, you have the mindset to do it.
It feeds the tenacity and now we have a close loop positive thing going, but if you don't have integrity in your training, you're not going to have confidence. You have to be doing what you're supposed to be doing in order to have the confidence to know that you can actually do it.
So if I'm not going to the parking lot on some regular basis, and practicing certain drills on my motorcycle, I don't have the confidence that I can do the drills. But when I'm practicing it, I know I can do the drills. If I haven't been practicing certain things in my bike, I don't have the confidence that I can do it. Be generous with yourself, give to others.
I don't want to sound too bolder but I don't mind sounding too bolder, I think that's big. I think we become a little locked into ourselves as athlete sometimes. I don't feel guilty about anything I've done in the past. There are many things. There are many things that I've done in my past that I certainly wish I hadn't done or said but I don't feel guilty about them. Here is why.
One time, and I assure you, it would only happen one time, I watched myself in an argument be a royal butthead. There is only once a day and I said, get out of this argument. The next thing I said was more inflammatory than anything I had said previously and I'm looking around first like this, like is there a hand up here and I might have pupped it, is there a merry in it operating -- I wouldn't have said that because I'm aware that I'm out of line here, why would say something? Why would I pour gasoline on this fire? All arguments end, thankfully, and I get out of the argument.
What I realized what is it was, at that point in time, the best I could to do because basically my intent is honorable and I believe your intent is honorable. The best I could do, was be aware that I was being a butthead. I didn't have the skill to get out of that argument. Now, I'm not going to feel guilty for that. I am going to put in a lot of energy, processing that so I don't do that again. The guilt isn't going to fix anything. Oh! I was so bad. Let me whip myself or let me give you it, you can whip me, and what is that going to give me?
Well, it's not going to produce any change in my behavior. I'm going to put my energy into something constructive, analyzing, understanding the problem, making corrections. At any give point in time, I'm doing the best I can. Therefore, at any given point in time, you're doing the best you can and in order to believe that, you have to follow Bruce's Rule #1 and I only have one rule; have compassion for yourself. Have compassion for yourself.
I can't tell you how many people argue with me when I say that. It helps to have a spiritual sense and I don't care about religion. I'm in a spiritual sense. Have compassion for yourself, if you really are a kind hearted person and let's assume that we all are then at any given point in time, you're doing the best you can. Now, let's take that and bring that into the hill; bike, run, Bruce in the pool. Oh wow! This is me today. No, I never just except that, by that way.
Before I walked out of the gym this morning, I always give myself a minimum of three, maximum of five. Yo, dude! Get back in the program. Okay. No, no, back, and if at some point, that's the best you can do, that's the best you can do. You never have to be afraid of what's going to happen out there.
You should prepare for the future. If there is something in the future that you need to consider, consider it, make a game plan. Do what you need to do to prepare for it and know that you may have to alter that game plan. If there is nothing you could do about it, no need to worry about it. There is nothing you could do about it. If you've made a game plan, no need to worry about it.
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