What does it look like to use your sport as a vehicle for transformation? First of all, it is all about how you walk in the gym, your presence of mind or your state of mind. Do you ever, for a few moments, just look and see what you actually are before you train, during your training and after your training? Do you ever tell yourself the truth of what you are all about - your doubts, insecurities, egocentric demands, pleasure, pain, fear, hopes longings, desires and all that is you?

To use your sport as a vehicle for transformation you must set aside all of these things and do your skills as if you were doing them for the first time. You must have your brain, mind and heart in a state of learning. When we are happy it is not when we are learning. But most of us don’t want to learn about our disorder, which stems from a brain that is full of its own knowledge. Therefore we can’t train out of our comfort zone. To have a beginner’s mind, brain and heart is to welcome resistance of whatever the situation is and go through it without judgment. This state of freedom is one in which failure is looked at and explored. It reveals to the athlete, coach and even the CEO the learning piece that one must get to produce quality. However, this must be an exercise of discovery and you can’t discover if you are holding on to previous knowledge you have of anything. The word discover means not to cover up. Therefore one must be free to explore.

Whatever the problem in the sport, the same manifestation is in one’s life. Under pressure we will build ourselves an “off ramp” and that same situation applies directly to one’s life. Know your “off ramps” in sport and see the parallel in one’s life. Then training and your sport take on a whole different meaning.

Coach Bri