Today, I was booked to teach a martial arts seminar.
The seminar was specifically for advanced students from across and within the association I’m a part of.
And one of the beliefs I had leading up to the seminar was, “I don’t hold anything back as a teacher… I always give my students my best… there isn’t any information I’ve been holding out on them…”
And in retrospect, I realize this was a limiting belief that held me back from promoting the event as good as I could’ve.
Because leading up to the event… I didn’t just sit in contentment with teaching what I already had… I researched, developed, and trained skills, drills, and ideas that I hadn’t taught before.
It was the seminar that put me on the hook to present new information. And that vacuum created an energy that sucked me down several rabbit holes of martial arts training videos that allowed me to do exactly that.
The point being, put yourself on the hook more often. Use it as a fuel to propel you to rise to the occasion and deliver in a way that’s beyond what you’re used to.
…And as you’re coming up to that presentation day, trust in your future self’s delivery. The more you put yourself on the hook… and hype up your future self… the more you’ll push your present self to rise.