The Spirit of a True Champion: A Look into the Mind of Jesus Christ (The Champion)

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I further encouraged her to declare her reasons out loud several times a day to get them into her subconscious mind with even more certainty.

Now go give it your all and let the chips fall where they may. You are now playing from victory. Regardless of the result, you have positioned yourself for a peak performance and it is going to happen. The coaching conversation itself was a peak performance experience. I, too, left feeling like I was doing what I was created to do—empowering people to tap into their championship mentality—to position themselves to perform from their highest self.

I wish to reach more with this empowering training. To learn more, visit jointhechampionsway. Reach out to me at veronica truechampioncoaching. Yesterday was an amazing day of watching Tiger Woods almost win. Actually, that is not a true statement. Beyond the golf world, the entire sports world was cheering him on as he inspired the inner champion in all of us.

His play was a visible demonstration of what the human spirit is capable of achieving even after the most notable loss. Champion Comeback Key 1: Start with your pain and face it straight on. Champion Comeback Key 2: Give yourself time and patience as you take steps forward to discover your comeback potential and what you are capable of achieving. Champion Comeback Key 3: Take inspired imperfect action. Get off the couch and be in pursuit. Champion Comeback Key 4: Pain and setback will produce a new perspective in you.

Capture and live out that healthy viewpoint as you get back on the road to championship. Maybe you have experienced a setback in your own life, one that has produced shame, pain, loss, and limitation. That same champion spirit in Tiger Woods, applied to your life, will get you back on the road to championship as well.

Because I believe there is a champion in everyone. I believe there is a champion in you! Veronica Karaman is a peak performance coach, pro golfer, and writer who loves to inspire the champion within others. I stood in the fairway, mad as hell. I was in the middle of a championship qualifier. It happened numerous times. A wrong calculation—he subtracted when he should have added.

― Franz Kafka

Then I had to do the calculations myself. If he had just added instead of subtracted—the result would have contributed to my advancing, rather than to a defeat. The sting of subtracting when you should be adding—that thought hit me hard as I read something that had nothing to do with golf, but how we make decisions about our lives.

Many times in the heat of a pressured situation, we decide to subtract instead of add. We make a decision based on survival, what keeps us safe, rather than on adding which makes us grow. We honor a limiting belief which subtracts us, keeping us stuck, rather than on pursuing a dream, which adds to us. We remain silent in a conflict, which subtracts from our connection, rather than speaking the truth in love, which adds to us. We judge when we should be open. We run when we should stand.

We wait to be acted upon rather than acting. We listen to others voices rather than our own—and as a result, we lose when we could win. What are you losing as a result of the direction of your decision? I was further convicted by reading a very insightful post by someone who some consider to be prophetic.

Here is an excerpt from Nate Johnson:.

The Champion Spirit — Matthew Allaria Ministries

I kept hearing it as a command from the Holy Spirit: Multiply means to cause to increase greatly in number or quantity, and in Hebrew means increase, abundance, enlarge, and greatness. Abraham was told to multiply and become the father of many nations.

Jacob grew and multiplied. He must get angry, just like I did on the course because He wants to succeed in His agenda, but needs you and I to come into alignment with His purposes and to step out and trust Him in the process. If you are in a place wanting to advance your life, step back and consider how you make your decisions. If you will make the decision that will multiply you, you are on the road to championship! When I was challenged to share my story of my competitive journey, and invite others in to my journey, it was a decision that added to my life.

I have been so blessed by the affirmations and validations I received regarding my writing and the inspiration it has brought to others. Even in my defeat, I was added unto, as a result of my own decision. It is there you will find the blessing of God! I have processed my on course experience and only share from a place of story-telling to make a larger point, and to multiply an inner win for others. Champions stand out by their ability to hit shots under pressure with ease and calm. How can you see if you are in the champion zone? You have to test yourself. Not everyone will put himself to the test.

Last week I decided to test myself. I entered a tournament that was bigger than my current state of play. I did it anyway. It was an intentional choice. I wanted to test myself to see where I stood in my training for my big championship down the road. I could have waited until I was more fully prepared.

I chose a different strategy. I decided to test myself to see what I needed to do to prepare. The pressure in the test would reveal those things to me.

My test revealed four things: Because a tournament places a demand on every part of my being, every part of my being revealed itself. From what was hidden even to myself to what was obvious, I located myself. Now I know what I need to work on to fully engage for my upcoming championship. My backslidden golf swing was a result of changing the pacing of my swing. When I reverted back to a slower pace, my new swing appeared the very next day. The childhood wound was addressed by an opportunity to give to others the very thing I did not receive myself.

Those lessons go beyond my head. They reach a cellular level. When your preparations reach a cellular level, you are on the road to championship. One of the reasons King David was a champion was that he invited testing. What comes out of you when you are tested? What does pressure produce in you? Who do you become? If you are the same person—hitting your shots under pressure with calm and ease, welcome to the champion zone. If not, examine what the pressure reveals to you and work on your game along with me.

Today was a day of things disappearing! After all, wasn't the story told at today's funeral the stuff of legacies? Of school lore passed on to the next class, and the next, building institutional pride as well as magical identities that made every kid in the state want to play there? It makes some fall, others rest and some pursue to the farther. The reason for the difference is not the size, shape, hair color or the style of the head but what is within the head, what fills the mind, what enters the ears; what the eyes look and see, what the ears hear and listen to; make some champions of life and others wanders of life.

Dare to Do the Undone. Plugging into the Power of Ten. Identify a bottom-up improvement or innovation in your organization, and interview the person who championed it.

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Chances are you will find a hero story of some kind. Why do we have to be heroes to implement perfectly good ideas? Robinson, The Idea-Driven Organization: And have great fun along the magical journey of life…perhaps even floating on your own cloud of endless possibilities. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are. Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high.

We must keep reaching. The Mindset and Spirit of a Champion. All my articles may be freely published. If this article is published, please acknowledge the source, thanks. The legendary Scottish racing driver Jimmy Clark is often overlooked when people list their greatest Formula One drivers of all time. Names like Michael Schumacher, Ayrton Senna, and Juan Manuel Fangio are thrown around with consummate ease, but it is rare for Clark to be mentioned among even the top three drivers of all time.

A lot of people go through life doing things badly. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting. Nobody is arguing he, Jimmy, was the most successful, but some do believe he was the most naturally gifted. He grew up close to the small Fife town of Kilmany as the only son of a farmer and as such, would have had many a chore growing up. Therefore, his father, at first, had little time for his fast paced hobby.

A race in which fellow drivers Chris Bristow and Alan Stacey sadly lost their lives. It was the first of 25 career wins which famously passed the previous record of 24 GP victories held by Fangio. In , he would lose the title due to his engine seizing on the final lap of the final race of the season. Today and in recent times, such prestige has been saved for Monaco, with tracks like the old Spa and Nurburgring banished to the driving enthusiast. His second title still contains a record which has gone unmatched in the 43 subsequent F1 seasons, and is likely to stay unmatched for decades to come:.

Jimmy Clark not only won the title but he did so by leading every single lap of every race he finished in the season. Therefore, he won every race he finished with what we now call lights to flag victories. And fans at Monza for the Italian GP possibly saw his finest performance, and possibly the greatest performance in a Grand Prix car. Clark was forced to pit from the lead with a puncture and rejoined a lap down only to be leading again by the start of the last lap.

It was a staggering drive which ended, unluckily, with a third place finish after his car faltered due to a lack of fuel. In those days, top racing drivers could turn their hand to any type of racing car or motorcycle for that matter John Surtees won world titles on a motorbike and in an F1 car and Clark was no different. Despite a strong start to the season, during which he won his last ever GP in South Africa, he was killed not in an F1 car but in a Formula Two race at Hockenheim in Germany on 7 April, , aged just Although the accident, where Clark veered off course and crashed into the trees which line the Hockenheim circuit, has never been explained, it is widely expected a mechanical failure played its part.

And it was not just fans of F1 who mourned his passing. Clark was as admired across the Atlantic as he was in F1 circles.

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The Scot won the Indy in , leading the race for of the scheduled laps and left a lasting impression on those who saw him drive. A driver revered in the world of Formula One and the top echelons of American motor sport. Clark won two titles, was cruelly denied two more by no fault of his own, and may well have gone on to win the championship had he not sadly lost his life.

It has been claimed since then by people close to him that Clark was ready to move on from his career in F1 after the season, so to speculate about further success may be even more futile than such an effort already is. His success in America did not come without a cost. Can you imagine in modern times, not competing in every race and winning a title? Clark was in every way a racer and often wondered why fellow drivers were not as quick as him. Of those races he won 25 more than a third , had 33 pole positions, 28 fastest laps, and garnered a whopping Championship points.

Amazingly, he would often just get into a car without setting it up in any way and post competitive times before asking for the car to be left alone for the race. And as fellow driver, New Zealander Chris Amon, said about his fatal accident: Reach for the stars and discover the champion of life in YOU through playing your own brand of music on the magical journey of life. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them — an inner flame that burns brightly…with dedication, purpose, desire and passion.

True champions LIVE the dream, the vision of who and what they can one day become…. To triumph is to achieve glory But glory is empty without the overthrow of fear, the acquisition Of courage, of grace — For the possession of these is the true glory. Good breeding is displayed in the ability to lose well And is primarily engendered by respect: Who and What is a True Champion?

Submitted by Craig Lock Key Words: This piece, in point-form as with all my articles may be freely published, electronically or in print. A champion is more than a mere title. Rather, it is a set, a collection of personal qualities. What are some of these qualities that make a champion? Unbalanced, obsessive… like this writer.

Sorry, Marie, Gareth and Sean! They have great confidence in their abilities. Self Belief is the key here. Vast amounts of courage and determination in overcoming many obstacles to get to the very top of their field. T rue champions demonstrate great consistency of performance. That is the hallmark, consistently delivering top excellent displays and results. They usually deliver elite performances… year after year. True champions always find a way!

Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion. Goals have deadlines and are stepping stones down the path, the stair-case to your dreams. Everyone has different skills and abilities — that is what makes them unique! It comes from an indomitable will. Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. Champions have a vision — they know where they want to go and where they are headed in the future.

Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength. The highest mountain we have to conquer is our OWN! Finally, champions have a great sense of purpose, ie. True champions have a strong commitment to pursue an endeavour… one that is born out of their sense of purpose and that lasts a life-time. There is unlimited potential in the human condition. ANY individual human being can cultivate the values of self respect, self-reliance and self discipline, which will greatly enhance their life.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: A desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will.

If you think you dare not, you do not. If you would like to win but think you can not It is almost a cinch you will not. If you think you will lose, you are lost. If you think you are outclassed, you are.

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You have got to think to rise. You have got to be sure of yourself Before you can win the prize. But sooner or later the man who wins is The one who thinks he can. Work on your weaknesses until they become your strengths. Remember that a great effort is usually the result of a great attitude. Dedicate yourself to a mighty purpose. Win with humility, lose with grace.

The Inner Champion

Ignore those who discourage you. Remember that how you conduct yourself out of the pool is just as important as how you conduct yourself in the pool. Talent is God-given — so be humble. Fame is man-given — so be thankful. SWIM like a champion. LIVE like a champion. I believe in myself. I have the will to win. I set high goals for myself. I surround myself with winners. I stay relaxed and in control at all times.

I focus all my energy on the job at hand. I take responsibility for all of my results. I have the courage to endure and persist. I vividly imagine what victory will feel like.

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