
Originally Posted by
John Alighieri
take a break for few days and if you're not going crazy not being able to train maybe jiu jitsu ain't for you...
Almost everyone I know who trains is so dedicated because they love it, its what they want to be spending their time doing and that makes it pretty easy to motivate yourself. If you don't feel that way, maybe its not for you, or even likelier maybe you are focusing on the negative aspects like the effort and commitment, injuries and pain etc, than the positives... Checkout the book '10 minute toughness' and it will put you in the right place for sports psychology.
Beyond that there's what your trying to get out of it... While competition isn't my primary interest, after competing at NAGA with 8 weeks grappling experience I loved it, but my skills were not developed yet... I've realize I don't just want to edge out a victory for a gold medal, I want the difference between me and the second place competitor to be worlds, dimensions apart, I want it to be so that there was never even a contest.... But we all do, don't we? What will it take to realize that when your opponents across town in another gym thinking the same thing, putting the same, or MORE effort in? I know I need to do even more than that, train harder, smarter. Learn more, pay more attention, everything that it will take to make that difference, that is my motivation, or one form of it...