Jumbled Success Tip for the New Year

I am by no means the most successful guy out there. But I am a big student of success and I have been all the way back since my youth sports career. This concept that I am about to explain can be used for anything in life, i.e.-business success, financial success, family success or in the gym, i.e.-hitting a new PR or winning for your first time on the bodybuilding stage.

I became obsessed with basketball when I was in high school; the only problem was that I was a six foot tall player from the suburbs. I set out to alter my limitations by shooting 500 jump shots per day. After roughly one year, I developed a pretty damn good shot. There were many days when I didn't feel like going out to shoot, often battling the elements of snow, rain or 100 degree heat. It was during those times, the knot on the path, that I developed my mental fortitude. "The hotter the heat, the harder the steel."

Too often, athletes will see a professional athlete on TV. and they are only seeing the finished product, the part after the knot in the line. People don't just wake up one day and find success laying their lap. Athletes are no different from guys that want to start up their own gym or small business. There are going to be many times that you have to wake up at 4 AM to get some work done on the computer, before the your family rises, heck, before the rest of the world rises. You sure as hell won't feel like getting up, but you will find a way.

There are going to be times when it would be much more fun to go out and hang with your boys rather than working on your marketing, or reading up on the latest in business or exercise science, but you will find a way. The people that find a way are the ones that are built for success. They realize somewhere in their hearts that success should NOT come easy. They know that someday, they will reach their peak. I always said when I was bodybuilding that if it were easy, I wouldn't be interested, because everybody would be walking around ripped. If success were plentiful, it wouldn't be special.

I learned the most in building my gym during the times that I was driving around with a few med balls and dumbbells in the back seat, training people in their cold ass garages, listening to Tony Robbins's tapes on the way over, thinking about how badly I wanted to succeed. I was during the 'squiggle' in the line that I have become who I have become. It was during traveling on weekends, leaving my wife behind, that I sought out mentors and leaders, knowing the whole time that I was in a jumble but that I would come out on the other side someday.

During bodybuilding prep, I never really learned too much on the day of the competition. It was always looking back on the grueling prep, starving mornings and the dog days that I became a champion at heart. I found that if I could deal with that, then I could achieve anything else in life. It is funny how sport and life mirror each other. I often think about how bodybuilding has set up my life to be successful, learning far more in the gym than I ever set out to do. The world is your classroom, soak it up...
"There are no diamonds without pressure...."

Kyle Newell is the creator of Newell Strength, located in central New Jersey. He specializes in making athletes bigger, faster and stronger. Kyle's methods are among the most unique in the business. He has worked with college strength programs and has competed in numerous bodybuilding shows. Kyle's men and athletes achieve unbelieveable rates of success and performance on the field. You can find out more about Kyle at http://www.newellstrength.com/.

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