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Achieving Your Martial Arts Goals and Behavioral Congruency
This article will summarize a great gift from Master Lloyd Irvin, a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Black Belt and Trainer of World-Class MMA Fighters. Beforehand let me tell you that I felt really, really, really STUPID for not having listened before to his FREE, yes I said FREE ( which makes me feel even more stupid) audio series called “The Grappling Phenomenon.”
Its a lot of common sense, just like Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, once you see the moves explained once. Or like the advice a financial adviser will give you about budgeting. One can easily say, “Well, I knew that already!” and dismiss it or say, “Man, that is so simple, true, and common sense that I don’t understand how I haven’t done it all this time.”
I just came back from having dinner after training with a couple of my students. One of them mentioned to me how he had high blood pressure and the doctor urged him to exercise more often. When his food arrive he asked me for salt (which raises blood pressure).
I quickly thought out loud, ”That’s not behaviorally congruent” – noone at the table really knew at that point what I was talking about. I went on to explain what I meant by that from what i had learned from “The Grappling Phenomenon”
What is Behavioral Congruency?
Behavioral Congruency: Core Idea behind the grappling phenomenon which consist of a combination of things. In 6-12 months one accomplish more than in years.
The grappling phenomenon is like a hurricane , or an earthquake, etc… it can’t be forced to happen it only occurs by constant congruent changes in the environment. The truth is behavioral congruency in any area can lead to a ” Blank Phenomenon” ( feel free to replace the “Blank” with whatever you wish to call it: Real Estate Phenomenon , Sales Phenomenon, etc..) To achieve the grappling phenomenon here is what you must do: Model, Plug Yourself, Get off the Yo-Yo Train, and be Congruent with Your Goals.
Model
Become congruent with the behavior of people achieving the result you so much desire already achieving the type of achievements that you want to gain and following a training system that is already producing proven results. Identify them, study them, and model their behavior.
At first, in your pursuit of excellence, you may not understand their system or the concepts involved, so your safest bet is to do exactly as they do. In the words of Rhadi Ferguson: “If we put on English leather cologne you need to put it on too because that might be it.” Take it to the extreme. Nevertheless remember Modeling is not Mirroring. Don’t mirror moves, but model the training and hard work as well.
Get Off the Yo-Yo Train
Research the system and then believe in it for good. Do not become one more of those individuals who do a workout for 30 days drop and go to the next. Commitment is necessary to success.
Plug Yourself into the System
Plugging yourself in proven success models and proven success systems is a must. A top athlete, uses great coaches, who use great systems, and practices regularly and frequently. If you are too cheap to go out find and get great coach or to lazy or busy to practice you can forget about becoming a top athlete. There is much that can be accomplished by modeling alone, but there are other levels and in order to get to them a great coach, and a great system its needed.
Congruent with Goals
Be congruent with the Goals themselves. Your behavior must change if necessary to accomplish your goals or to repeat the success. Goals are always changing and therefore your behavior must change accordingly. The quote/story below describes this concept very well as well as well as the success one can achieve with Behavioral Congruency.
“I wanted to win All Japan Championship just once. But once the dream came true, I did not want to give up the title. I felt like defending the title again and again. I got up from futon, turned on the light, and looked at my body. Neither my height (169cm) nor weight (86kg) is outstanding. There was no guarantee that I could continue to defend the title judging from my body size. I kept on thinking everyday, “I want to become a true winner.” About 10 days after this, I came up with a solid good idea. That is, “San-bai no Do-ryoku (Triple Effort)”. Until then, I practiced about 6 hours a day. I thought practicing twice as much as others would be sufficient since I had heard that others were practicing about 3 hours a day. In reality, however, they had been practicing about 4 hours a day (which I found later). But now I am the champion, others would start to train 6 hours a day to beat me. I could not beat them as long as I trained as hard as others. If my opponents train twice as hard as others, then, I will train 3 times as hard as others, i.e, 9 hours a day. This way, I would gain extra 3 hours a day, and I will do this everyday. The accumulation of these extra hours will become my flesh and blood, that is, my skills and mental power. This will automatically give me real self confidence. If I had this much accumulation, I would be able to fight as usual even if I got sick with fever at 40 degrees centigrade. I practiced “Triple Effort” everyday.”- from My Judo by Masahiko Kimura
The last important definition is:
Concept and Definition of BSer: The opposite of someone who is not behavioral congruent with their goals its a BSer. Most people are bluntly bullshitters. If you claim a goal and your behavior is not congruent with that goal you are a BSer.
To hear Master Lloyd Irvin’s Free Grappling Phenomenon Audio CD go to :
http://www.lloydirvinlive.com
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Roberto Torralbas
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