Let go my Eggo? Try letting go your Ego. Rule #1: we gotta accept that we must be better if we want our lives to be better.

Fleetwood Mac, knew their success principles. Rule 2: Don't stop thinking about tomorrow and where you are headed.

Hi Racers,

Welcome to part 2 of my 5 part Mental Mastery series preparing you between the ears for more wins. By now you are all aware of my Helmet Talks series. I encourage you to sign up for it. It's free and literally lets you in on the exact winning thoughts I am sharing with my best Racers moments before they take to competition. Find it at http://racerstrainer.com


I will tell you straight up that the physical training aspects of Racers Workout are the results of years of trial and error by me in the gym with Racer (and non-racer) clients of various levels of experience. The mental training is due to my desire to change my existence for the better and reach my dreams.  Anything I talk about in the mental peak area I have learned from giants in the often misunderstood area of Success Coaching.  I am an avid student of any materials that I believe will increase my capacity to be at my best.  I rate Brian Tracy as the best of the best. If you haven't read or listened to his Psychology of Achievement, put it on your must do list. It will absolutely focus your mind on the healthy fun aspects of life and off of the junk that that takes you no where.

Brian's 7 rules for Success in the 21st century are the basis of my mental attitude and approach. They are easy to remember and apply to thinking like a champion in all we do. Over the next 7 days we'll round out our Car Racer's Fitness Mental Mastery Series with Brian as our guide. I'll be sharing with you some articles I wrote on each Rule, which got excellent response from readers around the internet a few months ago.

 

Rule #1 for Success for Racers: Your situation will only get better when, when you get better.

Even though I am a personal fitness instructor to elite athletes like NASCAR's Kasey Kahne, I am actually a student first.  It might be surprising to hear me tell people that a majority of my learning takes place in studying success, personal development and mental fitness. Prior to Racers Workout, my students first should be in the right frame of mind for success.

One of my favorite guys in the personal development arena is Brian Tracy. Brian has a teaching style that I prefer. He focuses on universal laws of achievement and self improvement that are easy to understand and implement. His tape series "Psychology of Achievement" stands in my opinion as the starting point for any person looking to turn their mind to a calm, alert, clutter-free state.  He starts with the idea that self actualization, or a feeling of becoming the best person you can be, is a need as important as food, water and shelter.

Brian authored 7 rules for success in the 21st century that I thought perfectly captured the basics of grounded mental reality and foundation for anyone who prefers simplicity over complexity.  Rule 1 is that for anyone, things will only get better, when a person gets better.  My racers and other elite clients must always do two things in their minds to see any meaningful difference in their results. First, they must be honest about where they are vs. where they want to be and second, they must accept that they are wholly responsible for the results.

In short, by changing their behaviors (changing yourself because you are your behavior), they change their results. Better behaviors through habitual consistent action, means better results.  If they start there, the workout from a physical standpoint is secondary.

Welcome changes, and you will see progress.

 

Rule #2: It only matters where you are going.  Where you are coming from doesn' t matter.

Being a  fitness instructor for celebrity athletes like Kasey Kahne of NASCAR and Joey Saldana affords me access that many would only dream of.  I am Russ Bohaty, and folks call me "the Racers Trainer". I can be fouThere we go over the physical and mental secrets to fantastic achievement both on and off the track.  So when it comes to off the track, people are always asking: What is he like?  I don't consider my answer to this question a matter of trivia.  See it is what they are really like that matters on all areas and whether they are a success.

Maybe the better question is what do they all have in common that might lead to their unique and special results. Numerically speaking the odds are against anybody becoming a race car driver on the professional level. Yet these folks have done it and excel at the highest level among the best of the best.  Why?

Frankly, it is a combination of a lot of things. What I see all of them have is the special ability to implement the law of cause and effect into their actions toward the larger goal. They take effective action in the moment and they are not deterred by embarrassing defeat that might wreck the psyche of other people. Failures are only instructive. They take the lessons and go forward better.  In the context of my training program for racers which I tailor to their individual needs, they only want small incremental improvement in the moment and then more the next session.

The incremental improvements add up to very special one-of-a-kind results.  I would say that their willingness to take that approach to my racer's workouts is just them doing what they have always done in other areas of their lives.  There are no overnight successes and no one can reach the great heights forward without falling on their faces.  We go over the mental aspect of race and life success until they are part of us in my Helmet Talks series.


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