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2012 London Olympics| Willpower

All my life I have wanted to train. I have trained for a few months and then lay off for around 6 months to a year, and then go back to training. Each time I use what most people consider to be the only way to get results - WILLPOWER - gritted teeth and sheer willpower to achieve anything in life. If this was right, then why have I always failed - by doing it for a while and then stopping? If willpower worked, surely I would have started and not stopped?

I am sure there are many of our 2012 London Olympic sportspeople using this same strategy. Using great willpower to turn out to train every day.

The best and most efficient way is to see the end result in your mind - then, believe that is who you are, mentally. When your self-image is in line with what you are doing, you are congruent.

I changed from using to willpower to using mind power. MUCH BETTER. I first decided why I wanted to train, and what was going to be the reward and result for me. When I realised it was worth it, I did not then turn to willpower. I put the pictures of the end result and how much I was enjoying this right now in the present, even though it had not happened. I made it happen in my mind.

Now I do not need willpower because I believe I already have the result. I just have not physically taken possession of it - so it is a pleasure to train every day.

Think of overweight people. If they believed in their minds that they were thin, why would they diet ? They would just eat right and not set themselves up for failure with willpower.

I really hope our 2012 London Olympic athletes use this same method and see themselves wearing the gold right now - then the training will be a breeze.

2012 London Olympics| Even the Bad times are Good

We always seem to look at what is not happening in our lives, rather than looking at what is happening. As much as there are people going through a very tough time, there are those that are doing very well. The 2012 London Olympics is going ahead and there is a lot of preparation that is required. There is still a lot of building that has to take place, not to mention all the other industries that will benefit form this mammoth project. It was very interesting to see some of the figures given out on who is doing what.

London 2012 business benefits:
• 801 contractors have won work supplying the ODA worth over £3.5bn in total.
• Over two thirds (68 per cent) are small and medium sized.*
• Just under half (46 per cent) are based outside of London.
• More than one in ten (12 per cent) is based in the Olympic Park Host Boroughs.
• 98 per cent are based in the UK.

This is fantastic news for these companies. While we keep being told how bad everything is, here are companies that are doing very well and having a good time right now. There are all the companies that will supply those who have won contracts with raw material - so these are not the only ones to benefit the list will go on and on.

When we, as a nation, believe that even the bad times are good, we will turn this current crisis around. The 2012 London Olympics prove that life goes on regardless of current circumstances.

2012 London Olympics| Blame

It is quite interesting how we all want to blame someone or something. I see Tessa Jowell recently saying that if they had any idea of this recession, they would not have put in the bid for the 2012 London Olympics. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. The media is having a field day with suggestions everything is going wrong including the project being way over budget.

All of these things might be true and correct, but the decision has been made and now it is time to make the most of it. Not keep blaming anyone and everyone. If there was no recession, it would have been the best decision ever.

If everyone stopped fault finding and took responsibility for what they are doing, this would be a different place and the result would be a lot better.

You even see it with the athletes (some of them - not all) who blamed team mates for failing. When you are part of a team you all stand up and be counted. As a nation, it does not matter who his right and who is wrong. It is far more important to realise what is right, and then go for it. If we all stood up and tried to make this work, I am sure it will have a far better outcome. It is not going to please everyone but then that is the case with most decisions. They never do.

Lets all stop blaming and complaining and get on with the task on hand - to make this 2012 London Olympics one to remember and not for the negatives but for the positives.

2012 London Olympics| Baggage

Imagine if the 2012 London Olympic 100m sprinters decided to run with a kit bag on their back, industrial steel toe cap boots, and a dress suit. They would come last by a long way. Why? Well you cannot compete effectively if you are carrying baggage. You need to put down all the excess baggage and run as light as possible.
Swimmers at the 2012 London Olympics will shave all the hair off their body or will wear specially designed swim suites that allow no resistance in the water.  Even the slightest bit of resistance will affect the finish time of the race.

How much baggage are our athletes carrying around mentally? How much baggage are we carrying around?

The current times are certainly not allowing us to think positively. There is so much doom and gloom being forecast for now and the foreseeable future. Strip off the excess baggage and run lighter by getting involved with an antidote for the negative information we are being fed. We can do this by listening and getting involved with positive information. There is no way to beat this - you have to fight fire with fire.

I do not care what positive information you use but use something. Why would anyone just sit back and allow others to dictate how we should think and how we should feel. If they are going to field a top side at the 2012 London Olympics they need to start the conditioning right now. There is no time to delay. If you want to get some results I suggest you too start your conditioning now.

2012 London Olympics| Who Packed your Parachute

Charles Plumb was a pilot and fought in Vietnam. He was shot down and spent 6 years as a prisoner of war. When he returned to the USA he was publicised as one would expect. He went for a meal and a man came up to him and said “You are Charles Plumb who was shot down over Vietnam”. He asked how the man knew and the man said I packed your parachute. Plumb go to thinking about what happened and how he needed an emotional parachute, a courage parachute, a mental parachute and all the other parachutes to get him through his ordeal.

How many people had packed these parachutes for him that he did not even know.

Our athletes are going to need a great many parachutes to get them through the 2012 London Olympics. It is a tough competition that is going to take a lot of strength and character from each sports person.

We need to think of what parachutes we can pack for them. It might be a good time to think of all the parachutes that have been packed for you by others. It might be a good time to have real gratitude that you are around, no matter what your circumstances are.

Let us really support our 2012 London Olympic athletes even if it is just in thought.

2012 London Olympics| London Olympics

1908 Summer Olympics
The 1908 Summer Olympics (the Games of the IV Olympiad) were the fourth modern Olympic Games and the third to be hosted outside of Athens, Greece. The International Olympic Committee considers them the fourth Olympic Games, discounting the intercalated 1906 Summer Olympics.

The 1908 Olympic Games were scheduled to take place in Rome, but the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on 7 April 1906 required the Italian Government to redirect funds away from the Olympics. The events took place between 27 April 1908 and 31 October 1908, with 22 nations participating in 110 events. The British team easily topped the unofficial medal count, finishing with three times as many medals as the second-place United States.

1944 Summer Olympics
The 1944 Summer Olympics (Games of the XIII Olympiad) were scheduled to be held in London. Awarded in 1939, they were, however, cancelled due to World War II. These Games would have celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Modern Olympiad. A small celebratory sporting competition was held in Lausanne, in lieu of the Olympics, at IOC HQ.

1948 Summer Olympics
The 1948 Summer Olympics (the Games of the XIV Olympiad) were the first to be held after World War II, with the 1944 Summer Olympics having been cancelled due to the war. Showing a collective unity after the war, 59 nations competed in 136 different events between 29 July 1948 and 14 August 1948. Germany and Japan had not been invited due to security reasons. Unlike the last time the UK hosted the Olympics, the British athletes did not have a high medal count, finishing 12th in the unofficial medal count with only 23 medals.

2012 Summer London Olympics
The 2012 Summer London Olympics (the Games of the XXX Olympiad) are planned to take place between 27 July 2012 and 12 August 2012. The London 2012 Olympic bid was announced as the winner of the bidding process on 6 July 2005, following unsuccessful bid attempts for previous Olympics by Manchester and Birmingham. The planning for the Games is still ongoing, with many announcements and developments taking place.

2012 Summer Paralympic Games
The 2012 Summer Paralympic Games will be the fourteenth Paralympics and will take place between 29 August 2012 and 9 September 2012 at the Summer Olympics venues in London.

This information was taken from Wikipedia.

2012 London Olympics| Aiming for Gold

As with all things, target have to be set in order to make them viable for the money that is spent. The UK Sport Agency agreed on the amount of money for the Beijing Olympics, and the target for GB was set. They decided on around 35 to 41 medals in total, with 10 to 12 of those gold. Our team certainly out did them selves they achieved the highest number of medals since 1908. The Beijing Olympic Games total was 19 gold’s, 13 silver and 15 bronze medals which made a total of 47 altogether.

Money goes a long way to get things done, but it also takes talent. Our 2012 London Olympic athletes certainly do have the talent. We have some of the top sports people in every sport, but do we have the desire to want gold badly enough ?That has to come from the management and the coaches. They need to instill into the sports people a belief in themselves that they can achieve top results.

The great British public can also play a leading part by giving encouragement to the sports people as we build up to the 2012 London Olympics. There are many sports activities taking place and they need to be supported. By attending different sports activities we will give the athletes the idea that they are being supported. This will certainly encourage them to not only train harder but to have that self belief to win.

2012 London Olympics| Sports for all

The 12th World Sport for All Congress started on the 3rd November in Genting Highlands, Malaysia. The theme is to get all fit. We live in times of fast food, single parents and no time. Everything is done at pace - and with motorised vehicles wherever possible. This is killing people. Walking is a thing of the past and so is going for a morning jog.

With all of this, obesity is now very real, and the costs of looking after overweight people, with all their medical problems, is becoming a huge burden on the NHS.

We have the 2012 London Olympics in less than 4 years. This should and could be a great incentive to get the nation fit. If we started off with proper eating plans that would make a big difference.

Exercise should be fun and something the whole family can join in. Instead we arrive home, open a box of something we picked up in a drive-through, and then turn on the TV and sit for the rest of the night snacking. Then off to bed to sleep - ready for the next days drag - normally, tummy full of junk.

Our 2012 Olympic athletes have to have discipline on how they eat, and see that they train almost every day.

Why should it be any different for us ? We are in the Olympics of life. We should have a quality of life and not an existence. Too many complain of being bored yet they do nothing. That is absolutely ridiculous.

If we all mobilise and start doing something, our lives will be different and the 2012 London Olympics will be one that will feature in all the history books   as one that had meaning...National meaning.

2012 London Olympics| Drip Feed

Imagine a huge tank of crystal clear water, and a dropper of red dye, letting go one drop of red dye into the water. At first you would not even know that anything was happening. After a while you would see the water take on a very slight pink colour. Later on it would go slightly red and then it would keep getting deeper red as time goes on.

Our 2012 London Olympic athletes need to ensure they have the right material that they are drip-feeding on right now. The reason is, every one of us is being exposed to the credit crunch and all the other garbage that is out there, and it has to, eventually, have a negative effect on us. You cannot get away for it. It is what is known as “Spaced Repetition”. You get the same stuff repeated to you day after day - eventually it becomes believable. You can only will against this by feeding on positive material. It really does not matter where it comes from...make sure it is positive. I really hope this is what our sports people are going to be doing for the next 4 years so when the year 2012 comes around they have immunised themselves against all this negativity, and we have a wonderful London Olympics with lots of gold medals.

2012 London Olympics| Equality in Sport

I have seen there is a lot of lobbying going on for the cycling to get the 3 women’s event up to the same as the men’s 7 events. Dave Brailsford, the British performance director is the person behind this.

I think that women should be allowed to compete the same as men if they choose to. The time has come to get rid of this idea that women are not able to do the same sort of events.

It is the same in swimming - men do the 1500 M race and women do 800 M race. I really do believe that it is now time to put this all aside. I know that one of the arguments is that the time table is already crowded but then if that is the cases cut down a few of the events and make it even for both men and women.

The 2012 London Olympics should be fair for all people and all sexes. I am sure if the women did not want to compete in certain events they would not enter them. It should be their choice and not that of a committee who claim to know best for them.