#Letter March 1
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For March 2023 the 30-Day Coach4aday Challenge is going to be LETTER writing.
Who you write this letter to is the essence of the challenge. Each essay is going to be written to a younger version of yourself. Topics will center on values, concepts, and approaches that might have been helpful to me or you in our earlier years.
Challenge Rules
This is a highly personal challenge that may not be right for anyone else. It is a way for me to reflect on the growth and changes I have encountered in life. This will begin my 39th consecutive month of doing a 30-Day Challenge
How the Letter Writing Challenge works.
- Each day compose a letter on a single topic to a younger version of yourself with the goal of enlightening them on some aspect of life or living.
- If so inclined share that letter with someone. If posted on social media use the tag #Coach4adayChallenge
Letter #1 -WINNING
Dear Dan the Teenager:
Today I want to revisit how you view WINNING. I realize that you are trapped in a mindset that holds certain paradigms to be indisputable. For instance, I know you believe in Vince Lombardi‘s quote “Winning Isn’t Everything, it is the Only Thing”. Well I am here to tell you that you are wrong.
Competitive teenage athletes can easily be swayed to believing that self-esteem is tied exclusively to winning. Our view of ourselves is tied into comparison with our peers. This has led you to have many days and nights of feeling less than. What fueled those emotions was an emphasis on results not the process. The blunt truth is that you have it backwards, the focus should have never been on the outcome but the habits and systems you created. Moving forward I hope you will consider making that the priority.
Hoping in the future you discover what I know today. That there is not “Winning and Losing but Winning and Learning”. Each result we obtain in life can be improved in the future if we focus on what tweaks we make to our habits, systems, and choices. True champions do not define winning as where they landed today. Their perspective is on the long game and the journey. What they chase is progression not perfection.
Best Wishes
Grown-up Dan
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