Life Lessons from Lance Armstrong
Tips Motivation / / December 19, 2019
"The pain - a temporary thing. It may last a minute, an hour, a day or a year, but eventually pass, and something else will take its place. But if I give up, it will last forever. "
Lance Armstrong
About the Lance Armstrong heard everything. Even those who have never been particularly fond of cycling. Repeat what has been done to this man, yet no one could. His example inspires and demonstrates that human abilities are no boundaries. No matter what was happening to him right now. The important thing is that he could do when he was on the verge of life and death.
Let me remind you that Lance Arsmstrong - seven-time champion of the Tour de France (1999-2004 gg. in the team US Postal, 2005 - as part of Discovery Channel). And before that, in 1996, he found out he had testicular cancer with metastases, which have already reached the lungs and brain. The doctors said that the chances for success, that is life, is only 20%.
"It's not about the bike. It's a metaphor for life, which is not only the longest cycling race, but also the most grueling, Heartbreak and potentially tragic. It creates all the possible elements for the rider, including the cold, heat, mountains, plains, ruts, flat tires, strong winds, incredible luck, the incredible beauty, meaninglessness, evoke a yawn and, above all, a deep introspection. Throughout our lives we are faced with so many different elements that we experience so much failure and grasp the hand to hand with setbacks. Plunge into all this with only his head to just stand straight and have at least a glimmer of hope. Tour - it's not just cycling. This is a test. It checks your physically, he is testing you mentally, and even then, as far as we are moral. "
"It's Not About the Bike" Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins.
1. Be persistent not only in competitions
Lance disease accustomed to the pain, and he knew that the pain he feels during the competition, is not nothing compared to what he felt when fighting cancer. But whether it is a bicycle race or a fight with a deadly disease, you still have to go through the pain in order to win and achieve his goal.
The same goes for business. If you want a step ahead of the competition, or at least go with him in the leg, you should be prepared a very unpleasant and difficult path, but still continue to move towards its goals. Even if you do not really want it. Especially if you do not want.
2. If you fall, get up and keep moving forward
On one of the most important stages of the Tour de France in 2003 on a mountain bike site Lance lost control and fell. But that did not stop him. He got up and continued the contest.
Such situations happen all the time just like in life and in work. And it does not mean you have to lay down their legs, and surrender to the will flow. If you fall, get up, shake off, carefully inspect the cause of the fall, to remember to not to repeat the mistake and move on. Do not let obstacles slow down your movement.
3. Training, training and more training time
Lance Armstrong preparing to cycling not only physically. He visited and carefully studied all the track: turns, ascents, descents. Then I come back here again and again as long as did not remember every detail.
Why do not we take a cue and get ready to work in this way? You may need to read a couple of interesting books and feature articles? Or explore the sales showgirl, if this applies to your work? And, it may be better to visit a number of seminars on the topic of interest? You may have to drive the extra mile, but the effort will be worth the result. Because it is only prepared to reach the very top.
4. Surround yourself with a good team
One of the paradoxes of cycling is that the team wins, even if the first comes just one of its members. Lance ably led his team to win the competition again and again. As team leader, he could rely on others. The fact that they set the tempo, block wind, which creates blockages, and help it to retain its leading position.
Regardless of your goal, you must have a good team. It can support you in a moment of doubt, to hedge, supporting, cover. Carefully choose the people with whom you work. Business - it is a team game and you must be fully confident in the people around you.
5. Do not listen to critics
As the champion, Armstrong often faced with the incessant clamor of critics. They asserted that he could not win the race. And when he won it, saying that he will not be able to repeat their success. And he repeated it again and again. And so seven times in a row. And then they tried to accuse him of fraud. But Lance was raised again and again to prove that they are wrong.
If you decide to implement your idea, be prepared for the fact that the encounter with harsh criticism. Very often, and particularly unpleasant it is when the criticism sounds from the mouth of your loved ones, whose support do you bargained for. But this is not a reason to abandon your goals. Critics have been and always will be. There is always someone who will say that you can not, you do not get, it's too risky. And they will pull you for a down, because if you succeed, you will find yourself on a couple of spans above. Do not listen to empty "scary stories for aspiring entrepreneurs," proceed.
And even if you do not succeed the first time, this is not a reason to stop. After all, if we are not mistaken, we do not learn. Maybe someone and learn from others' mistakes, but it seems to me that the errors at everyone.
6. Life is short. Living it with dignity
We remember that life is beautiful and short, even with all its vile blind alleys and steep turns, Only when we really presses, and we understand that, possibly before the end there were few days. Man by nature is very mysterious creature. When all is well, we are Noah, that we have something does not work. When it was all very bad, we suddenly realize that all our whining and complaints about life were a waste of time and energy. What does all this was a child crying over a broken rattle. And now we started adult problems. And we begin to solve them with a vengeance. Why to realize its importance and feel the happiness to the full, we need to be on the verge of death or lose any part of the body?! Why we do not appreciate what we have, and constantly look behind the fence neighbor? His grass is greener and the sky above ?!
Yet people do not learn to identify how many days left to live them. But life can be really short. So why waste it on empty experiences on false pretexts? Do not think that what has happened to someone, it never happens to you. And you can never be sure that our loved ones will be with us until the end. Do not doubt. Do not complain. Do not be afraid. Just live ...