When Anna Kournikova, a 17 year old tennis player with flowing blond hair, reached the semifinals at Wimbledon in 1997, the women tennis craze started in Russia.
It was one of the most watched television events of the year in Russia, partly because of her looks, her age and mainly the exceptional performance.
She became a hero.
The girls in Russia watched the success of young Anna in masses.
They were stunned by her triumph (as was most of the world) and Russian euphoria happened.
At the time when Anna Kournikova was winning, lots of young girls picked up tennis and wanted to be like her.
They got hugely motivated. And that motivation didn’t seem to go away.
Years after, more and more Russian women were ranked in top 100 WTA.
Russian Women tennis players in top 100 WTA:
1998 – 3 – Anna Kournikova included
2001 – 8
2002 – 10
2005 – 15
2006 – 16
The motivation in these case worked exceptionally well. Why?
The need to belong, to associate, is among the most important human motives.
And that’s exactly what worked for Young Russian girls, who wanted to be like Anna. Fit like Anna. Hero like Anna. Pretty like Anna. And they started working hard to achieve that.
Are you lacking motivation to get fitter? To get healthier? To loose weight? Is it hard to keep going because you are loosing motivation?
Look around yourself. Are the people around you fit, lean, strong and active? If they are, you are probably fit too.
You want to belong, to associate with them. You want to be like them.
Are people around you lazy, fat and couch potatoes?
If they are, that could be a reason, that you are not motivated to get fit.
Is there a woman in your gym, work or book club, that is about your age and she looks great, she is lean and she is fit?
So you tell yourself, I am similar to this woman, she is very fit, she looks great. I want to be like her. I want to achieve those things too.
Bud I am working hard on to become bald and attractive . Maybe some day it will happen. Maybe not. But I still have a lot of work ahead of myself.
I just hope, I will persist.
How about you! Are you bald? Are you bald and fat, or bald and stupid, or bald and boring? Or all of those together? That is a very bad combination. And if you are not working hard to improve it, there is no hope for you.
Are you sitting at home watching football drinking beer, eating chips, gaining weight and feeling sorry for yourself?
Are you telling yourself how ugly you are whenever you look in the mirror? Nobody wants to go for a date with you?
If you really are what I just described, you really are ugly bald guy and there is a little hope for you if you are not willing to change.
But there really is a hope for us guys!
The great news is; when you are willing to change, and you will, you can really become very successful and attractive bald men.
The question is: Are you willing to work at it? It will not be easy, especially if you already are fat, and stuck in your comfort zone.
Put yourself into work on yourself, work hard and you will become bald attractive man. Like I said, I am working on these too and I am still far away from my goal.
This is what we have to do:
1. Hit the gym - bald and fat is very bad combination. Don’t get me started about this. Loose that weight. Work on it. Eat well and exercise a lot.
2. Work on your intelligence - learn a lot, have manners, be gentleman, read books.
3. Get ripped – this is really not that necessary, but if you can achieve it, it is a huge plus. How many guys with hair have a six-pack abs? Not that many. This is considered to be a fantastic feature, especially if you hang out a lot on the beach. I already achieved these goal, and I will tell you, its worth it.
4. Cut it short – there is nothing worst than bald guy trying to cover it. Be proud of it!
5. Get some sun – bald head looks better when it is tan. Just be careful. Don’t burn it!
6. Become bold bald guy – stop being boring bald guy. Become original thinker, provocateur and a person who cares. Play sports and have cool hobbies like skateboarding, windsurfing and whatever; something you are passionate about.
7. Become proud of your look
My 7 favorite famous bald guys:
1. Kelly Slater – 9 times world champion in surfing.
2. Andree Agassi – former tennis superstar and founder of education foundation.
If you are looking for a shortcut to achieve your goal, you are wasting your time.
Shortcuts don’t work most of the time. Especially if you are trying to achieve something worth while, something that’s somehow hard to achieve. This applies to to your health, loosing weight, becoming stronger, faster or fitter more than anything else.
Stamina is utterly important. And stamina is only possible if it’s managed well.
People think all they need to do is endure 3 or 5 more intense exercise sessions and their fitness dreams will come true.
They are stupidly wrong.
Being good at anything, getting in great shape or achieving anything is like windsurfing – the definition of being good at it is being able to make it look easy. But it never is easy. It takes lot’s of practice, lot’s of hours in always changing environment and dealing with it. That’s what people conveniently forget.
If I were just starting my quest for better shape, health, fitness, weight loss or anything, I wouldn’t try to do a lot in the gym for long time. I would try to do something far simpler.
I would find that extra half hour or 45 minutes every day, that belongs to nobody else but me, and I would make it exercise productive. Put the hours in, do it for long enough and magical, life transforming things happen eventually.
Sure, that means less surfing Internet, going out and hanging out in coffee shops, less time watching TV, saying no to other people more often or whatever.
Waves in the ocean never stop pounding against shore. Sometimes they are big, and sometimes they are small. But they always keep coming and they are changing the shore over time with their consistency.
If you can apply the consistency of waves in ocean, you can achieve anything you want. You can change and achieve anything by consistently pounding against your shore – your goal. You can change the world with it.
If you promised yourself, that you will exercise 30 minutes everyday consistently to achieve a better health, fitness and shape and after couple of weeks you stopped, you are not alone.
About 99% of people do the same think. They set their goal, they are excited to keep going and somewhere along the way they stop. They stop pounding against their shore – loosing weight, getting strong, achieving great health and fitness, win Olympic gold, make 10 million bucks.
To become consistent at things you set for yourself and keep showing up when going gets very tough and motivation is temporarily lost is very, very, very hard.
Yet, some people can do it. They set their goal and they stay the course. They don’t quit. They want to. They want to quit many times. But somehow they numb their inner comfortable voice and do the opposite. They fallow through.
I think it is in all of us. We can all be consistent. But we have to find our own way to do it. An when we do, we become exceptional. It will be hard, but it will be exceptional. And being exceptional can be fun too.
Consistency is one of the most important things you can apply to achieve your fitness goals. Consistency is crucial in loosing weight, getting fit and staying healthy.You have to be consistent with your prescribed diet and exercise.
If you can be consistent like waves in the ocean and fallow up even when it seems impossible to keep going, you will certainly succeed in anything.
I’m still meeting people, that are asking me: Is it really that important for me to be in a better shape? What they are really saying is: We don’t want to do that. We don’t want to do all that hard work that is involved in the process of being fitter. Why should we do that?
This is why:
For better health
For better thinking
For avoiding surgery
For being better to your kids
For being better to your spouse
For better creativity
To be more relaxed
To be beautiful
For better sex
To make better decisions
To have nice legs
For more energy
To be more positive
To enjoy life more
To live longer
To earn more money
To be smarter
To drive better
To cook better
To prevent injury
To not get sick easily
To be in a good mood often
To smile more
This list actually never ends
So why than should you try to get in better shape than you are now? The answer is pretty obvious:
Being in a better physical shape improves every single aspect of your life.
. Maybe some day it will happen. Maybe not. But I still have a lot of work ahead of myself.
