Underperforming Voice

Welcome back, you guys. Another episode of halftime talks, whether it’s your first time listening or your 10th time being here, one thing we do every week is we begin on a bright note, and that is appreciation. So today, you guys, I want to appreciate all the minds out there, and all the priceless infrastructure of technology we take advantage of on a day to day basis. Do you know how amazing Amazon web servers are? Do you realize if we were going to start a business over 1520 years ago how much it will cost you realize how much video hosting was 10 plus years ago, and now we have services like YouTube and, and Dropbox and all these things that are priceless, are priceless, that would easily be unaffordable.

But mines and businesses have come together to create these opportunities for us. I appreciate it. This week, we are going to be talking about that underperforming voice that exists in the back of our mind, and tries to convince us of a version of reality that may not really exist. Where does that voice come from? What is it? Are we capable of rising above it? When should we listen to it? These and other questions will be explored in this week’s episode. So without further ado, I want you to strap in your seat belts get secure, open your mind and become receptive to, as I say often just one idea because it only takes one idea to transform your life, your community, your family, and even the world.

So here we go. This underperforming voice, I become fascinated with recognizing becoming more aware that this voice exist. This summer. I’ve been working on a high interval training workout protocol, and part of it is pushing yourself to the limit. Now previously, in workouts of the past, I’ve had a workout buddy that spotted me. And interesting thing happens. Say you want to do a set of 10. But each time out at Rep Number seven, there’s a voice in your head that says I can’t do anymore. But you have somebody standing over you with the safety that their hands are in a bar. And somehow you push out three more reps. And each time you look up at them and you say Yo, did you really take the weight off the bar?

And they say no, I didn’t even touch the bar. Now, the question that comes to mind is why weren’t we able to do that ourself? Was it a safety thing? Or was it we’ve allowed that under performing fois voice to really get more attention and dominance in our conversations than we let it and it’s funny the voice rules, the voice rules and seasons of unpredict productivity that voice will keep you on the couch watching Netflix or playing Playstation instead of walking around the blog getting some fitness in it’ll convince you that I it’ll take too much time to cook so therefore you eat out and maybe eat bad. It will say I want to go to bed instead of working on your passion project. Another area that does voice I began to truly examine it is doing the Wim Hof Method and part of the Wim Hof Method includes with holding your breath.

So, I began to notice that as I held my breath for long periods of time extending over one minute and probably the maximum somewhere in the three and a half minute mark I would have this conversation with myself, I noticed that the more that I thought, the more that I started trying to contemplate, and will myself to hold my breath, the shorter my breath retentions were. And then, as time began to progress, I began to notice that I can be present to the needs of my body, the fear, the threat, the impending I need to breathe, soon relaxed away. And that stress, which was probably eating up some of the oxygen in my bloodstream, dissipated as it dissipated, my times, were more regular and more consistently high, I was able to look at those ideas and acknowledge them, but at the same time, have a broader perspective of what my body was truly capable of.

It’s interesting, where do these voices come from? Are they are these voices our ego, doing what it thinks is in our best interest to protect us? Or is this part of us that wants to play it safe? Now, in order to achieve anything worthwhile, we have to challenge that voice, you have to look at that voice and say, regardless of what I think I can do or can’t do, I have to challenge myself, I have to train this muscle with consistency, I will be able to get the results that I want. And a magical thing is, when I used to run I used to run like 10 plus miles a week. Running, it got a little bit easier. But it was still running, you were still running on that pavement, three or four miles at a time, it still took the same time it took a level of effort, it took a level of conditioning, lifting weights, I don’t care how often you lift weights, you are still pressing, lifting and curling, in some cases, which I was doing in the past extreme amounts of weight, 300 pounds over your head on a benchpress still feels like 300 pounds.

Now the things that change when you’re able to do these elite levels of performance, or you’re able to push yourself outside of the crowd, outside of the underperforming individuals outside of the standard of mediocrity. And you reject those average standards and you want to excel beyond them. You learn how to fully make that voice evaporate. That voice no longer gets your attention. Do you remember, in the beautiful mind, the Russell, the Bernard Russell or the Russell actor, I can’t think of his name right now. He was still crazy. Those people still wanted to talk to him. But he did not give them the time of day because he had an intention. He had a purpose. He had a level that he wanted to perform it.

He had a perspective of who and what he was capable of that gave him the ability and in your life, which will give you the ability to perform to your limits. Guess what? Swimmers, runners, entrepreneurs, they recognize and then they mitigate that risk. They recognize that they recognize that voice. Nobody goes without hearing those voices. Nobody can push themselves beyond what’s average, and not have a little voice in the back of our mind that asks us to stop that ask us to just relax, to ask us to just just give it a rest to ask us. Let’s just go have fun. But it’s our ability to recognize where we’re going. That’s where your goals are important, why we’re going what we’re creating what is possible within the short term, what is possible within a long term.

And if I commit to this track, what I’m capable of achieving. So guess what? Guess what begins to happen, you begin to recognize that you can challenge that voice. You can challenge your limits. And once you understand fully the system that you’ve been given this great body, this great mind, you understand how to maximize your willpower, how to create the systems that give you opportunities and choices that leads you down the right path. That voice. You kind of chuckle at it. You kind of look at it and say Hey, I recognize you I appreciate you because in the past, you may have served me well. But I know what I’m capable of, I know my limit. And as you begin to understand your limits, as you begin to understand thyself Know thyself, as you begin to fully see yourself, in your true essence, with your true capacity, you understand the place that voice serves within your life, and you explode beyond those limits.

That underperforming voice, it will always be with you, but you’ll recognize it and its character and the role it’s supposed to play. But there’s a bigger role that you need to play, you need to play up to your your ultimate limits, your ultimate potential, your latent capacity, bring that up, we are in a different game, we do not want to live by the standards of the mediocre people who set them. We are forging new trails, we are blazing new paths, we are reaching into what I call our upper limits. And there are certain things that we have to get in check. And that is that inside voice that really asks us to underperform.