A decathlete writes three gratitudes and his goals in first person every morning. After eight months of this routine, he jumped from a personal best of 6,150 to 6,703 points at Olympic trials, crediting the practice to neuroplasticity: repeated words reshape your brain.
I would write my goals every single day. I would start, well, I'd start my morning with a gratitude list. So like 3 things that I'm grateful for. And then I would write my goals and I would always write my goals in the first person. And that story's actually really cool 'cause I, I started doing that the year of the Olympics. So I probably wrote my goals down every day for 8 months. And my meeting, my initial meeting with my coach, I walked in and I sat down in his office and I had goals at the time that, you know, I, at that, at that point I had scored 6,150 and I wrote down I wanna score 6,700 points. And my coach was like, Whoa, that's a big jump. 500-point PB. All right, let's go. It's really, it's neuroplasticity, right? Like, you are what you think and what you feed your brain. And so even though I didn't believe it, you know, 9 times out of 10 that I was writing it down, I was really diligent in journaling that every single day. And at the Olympic trials, I mean, down to the probably millisecond of what I wrote down is what I scored. And I scored 6703 was my final score. Wow. Which is, it's such a testament to your Words become your world.
