1. The Biggest Challenge
How to Overcome Yourself

2. The Biggest Challenge - Yourself
Introduction
What do all people who
achieve excellence and high
performance have in
common?
Willingness to push
themselves beyond
their limits

3. The Biggest Challenge - Yourself
Important
Many High Performers
work really hard and face
adversity, discomfort and
uncertainty to achieve
Success.
Hard Work
High Performance
Adversity
Success
Discomfort

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Be Careful – Don´t Push Too Far!
• We should not push ourselves
too far.
• The evidences suggest if we
do it we can hurt ourselves
badly.
• The key is intensity and
training, not exhaustion.

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Our Main Enemies
• Many people look for
interesting or unfair excuses
to explain their lack of
success or failure:
– Bad luck.
– Being from a poor family
background.
– Prejudice.
– Unfair life approach.
– Lack of opportunity, etc.

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Why is it Difficult to Succeed?
• As human beings we hold two
powerful instincts:
– Instinct 01 - Avoid pain,
– Instinct 02 - Move towards
pleasure.
• Such instincts help us to achieve
mediate results.
• And in most cases, Success is a
long term result that requires
more than instincts.

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Strategy 01 – Minimize Temptation
• Anyone succumbs in front of
temptation and it will defeat us
if we expose ourselves to it for
too long.
• We need to avoid any kind of
risky situation that could lead us
to failure or inertia.

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Strategy 02 – Under a Short Period of Time
• Push yourself to discomfort
only for relatively short
period of time.
• Interval training is built on
short bursts of high intensity
exercise offset by rest and
recovery.

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Strategy 03 – Important Challenges
• Try beginning the day by
focusing without interruption
on the most important
challenge in front of you, for
no more than 90 minutes, and
then take a real renewal break.
• It's much easier to tolerate
discomfort in short doses.

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Main Personal Life Approach
• Be focused: without
focus you have a life
with no direction.
• Be positive: a positive
and optimistic approach
will help elevate your
view of any task you set
out to achieve.

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Main Personal Life Approach
• Be action oriented: to
achieve it is important
to take action, since
only action creates
results.
• Be aware: don’t be a
horse leading a
carriage.

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Conclusion
• Many people spend their lives
without looking for ways to improve
themselves.
• We know that it is not an easy task
and our routine can kill our desire for
improvements.
• But we need to keep in mind that
improving ourselves is the fast way to
achieve Success and Happiness.

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