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It's funny. I was having a conversation

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with,

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a tennis player by the name of Martina Navratilova,

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and we were just talking about

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the topic of mindset.

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And she said to me that one of the key

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factors

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for her being at the top of a game was belief and passion.

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And combined in the belief the fact that she believed that she could make it to the top, she was good enough to make it to the top with the passion that she had, you know, so when you have a when we talk about passion in this sense, it's with the ability

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to when the chips are down still love it.

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When the chips are really at your your very best when you're absolutely lain it, you love it.

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And if you have all these things that are combined into in into one, I guess you have the opportunity of great achievement.

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But remember in everything you do in sport especially in professional sport, you just try to do the best version of you.

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And if you're blessed with everything else that that that is great, you know, great platform,

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good body that stands the test of time, etcetera, good coaching, training partners, the list is quite endless,

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then you have real opportunity.

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Looking back as an athlete, I was very, very

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strong in the head. I had this belief of what I could achieve. I I loved my sports.

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You know, I was actually in love for my sport. There's no way I could describe it.

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I was in love with athletics.

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And and when you love something so much to the cause in your soul in that sense, you'll work hard to to obtain the most you can

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out of yourself

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in that particular field. So I was pretty good,

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when when when I was there. And even though I was having,

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to me, on reflection, I was being tested in so many occasions, not only on the competition field, but outside externally,

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and it has still come through and win medals, win titles,

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etcetera etcetera.

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I would say I was I was pretty good. Yeah. Pretty good.

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It was never always like that because you was always times where you have disbelief.

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Nothing's flawless. Right?

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You can't go through the whole of your track career going well I'm chocolate right?

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Of course I'm gonna do this that and the other' because it doesn't happen. You get injuries

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and injuries

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are hard to deal with. You get situations where you may

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lose endorsements because you're injured, you know, and then your mind is just plain, you've got bills to pay, you've got things to do and your head's all over the place.

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And so you've got to learn,

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I wanna use the word skills,

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coping

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mechanisms really

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to to put you through all those stages well knowing that you'll come out the other side

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okay.

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I think coping mechanisms are always individual,

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for you to to to work with and for. And the reason why I say it's really they're very individual

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is because everybody's circumstance, you get stimulated by different things.

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So, you know, what would stress you will not necessarily strain me,

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vice versa.

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So you learn

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different ways of coping with situations and circumstances.

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And for me, most of the time was just to breathe.

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I just learned that breathing just worked for me. It would just calm me down.

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And having that sense of of calming

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then allowed me to take on the the challenge in front of me.