WHY ALL YOU NEED IS THE RIGHT MINDSET

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We are shaped by our thoughts; We become what we think. (Buddha)

In this post, you are going to discover the truth in the statement above. But before we go to that, take time to ask yourself:

Why you think you can’t reach where you want to reach?

Why you can’t pass in your subjects at school, college or university?

Why you can’t get any job or get a good job?

Why you can’t abandon that bad behavior you have?

Why you can’t make your business successful?

Why you are not or you can’t be a happy person in a relationship or marriage?

Why you don’t have a plan to employ yourself?

Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait!

Before you start blaming the system, before you blame the environment you are in, before you blame some people around you, before you hold your body for all that you are now, 

ASK yourself again the following:

Does it mean that it is impossible for you to change for the better?

What is better for you to change for the better or remain who you are today?

Do you know that development or success is long term thing?

Do you really want to remain at the current stage that doesn’t seem helpful to you?

Why you would prefer to remain who you are today than being a better person?

Now the real life stories!

Dr. Mike Tyson

Wikipedia describes Mike as a retired American professional boxer. Tyson is a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF heavyweight titles at 20 years, 4 months and 22 days old. Tyson won his first 19 professional bouts by knockout, with 12 of them occurring in the first round. Tyson declared bankruptcy in 2003, despite having received over US$30 million for several of his fights and $300 million during his career.

Before he became the World’s boxing champion, Mike was just a normal street guy. He was a thief, went to jail many times! In his 2008 movie named TYSON, he tells his life story. The following quotes are relevant to our topic today (Courtesy of www.imdb.com).

Mike was a bad guy and he admits here:

“I'm 12 years old with 15 hundred dollars, in my pocket; there was no way I could claim the money, so I went straight to Sparfa Juvenile center. At Sparfa Juvenile center I was nervous, I was scared, it was the first time I was ever arrested, and I was 12 years old. So um I went there and saw all my friends that I haven't seen in years, they were here, they were locked up there, and it was like being away from home, like a class reunion. The guys I haven't seen in months I saw them there, and I was no longer intimidated, and I started going there in an often basis. Probably twice a month, once a month, three times a year, and eventually they sent me upstate. I went to Tryon Detention for Boys in upstate New York”.

But Mike, got advice on how he could change for the better from Mr. Cus

"Listen you have the chance to change your life, your family's life, you can be very special. Don't you want to be champion? You can be champion of the world". I didn't pay no attention. He said really, "You could be champion of the world. You could devastate the world. No man can take what you did, you got to believe it". I looked at this guy and then I started thinking, I said, this guy is really crazy, that's what I said, this guy is really crazy. "You do what I tell you to do, and if it doesn't work then, then you can leave".

And Mike followed the advice to become champion of the world

“So I said OK bet. I did everything he told me to do and I won, I won every championship. From the amateur championship, all the championships, I'm gonna cry, so I won every championship that he told, because, he told me what to do. And I started believing in this old man. I stopped being a little thief”.

“My mission is to go and destroy, and not let anything get involved. You punch, you get hurt, I refused to get hurt, knocked down, or knocked out. I can't lose, I refuse to lose”.

I watched the Tyson documentary myself, and here is what I could quote:

When Mike used his Mind badly, he paid a high price – his downfall, and he admits:

“I had women in my room, I didn’t train hard. I didn’t take the fight seriously. Seriously I wasn’t training”. When he lost in his Feb 11, 1990 with Black Trunks.

“I should have trained hard; I can’t blame anybody but myself”.

Before the match with Evander Holyfield on November 9, 1996, Tyson though he knew as a boxer he was supposed to abstain from sex, he didn’t do that as he says:

“I had tremendous amount of sexual activities….” And what happened he lost the fight

On his financial crisis, Mike says:

“I guess that is my downfall, I associated myself with so many reaches. I guess everybody has their purpose in life, I call them reaches …… No one to be blamed truly but myself"

"I think controlling money is the art. Controlling money is an art. I am extremist. I either have a lot of money or I have money none…. I don’t know how to live in the middle of life. .. I don’t know why Iam that way. No one can understand the mind of an extremist. People always they can judge me, but they can’t understand my mind”.

“I wasn’t a guy who was greedy with money, but I wish I was smarter”.

But why he wasn’t smarter ? Mike Tyson explains:

“I never thought I would live long enough to really enjoy anything, so I was living pretty recklessly cause I didn’t think I would live this long. I had no idea I would live long to be 40 years old, that is a Miracle”.

But look at what where Mike Tyson direct his anger to for his downfall:

“If I have any anger, If I have to direct that anger, I have to direct that anger to myself”

Lesson ?

However, Mike Tyson knows that falling down isn’t the end; he is going to raise up and continue with life. He finished his documentary by saying:

“What I have done in the past is a history, but what I am going to do in the future is a mystery”.