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Remember Michael Phelps? The swimmer. 8 golds. Became the best swimmer ever at the Bejing Olympics. Well, here are some facts about how he motivated himself to glory.

At the 2004 Athens Olympics, Phelps was also aiming for the 8 golds. He only got 6 however. Also one of the competitions, he lost to compatriot Ian Crocker in the 100m butterfly. He lost by a single touch. After that competition, he printed out the picture of that final touch. The one where he lost. And you know what he did? He stuck it up on his wall as a poster. So whenever he felt like slaking off or skipping training, he would go into his room and take a good hard look at that picture. So that it will always remind him to train harder or suffer the consequences.

Another thing, before the Olympics, Australian legend Ian Thorpe said that Phelps can never achieve the 8 gold mark. With that, Phelps stuck a picture of Thorpe up on his wall with that quote in it. Same thing, every time he just wasn't in the mood for swimming, he would remember what Thorpe said and train harder to prove him wrong.

So, there are 3 lessons here,
1. Always take failure as a step to achievement. The most successfully man in the world would be the man that has failed the most. Everybody makes mistakes, but it is how we react to them that will set us apart.

2. Never let someone tell you you're not good enough. Because you really are good. There is no one on earth that is useless. We were all put here for a reason. Everyone is special. Including you.

3. And another thing, always be optimistic. Never let negative thoughts fill your mind. You can view the cup as half empty or half full. As soon as the positive thoughts fill your mind, then you have achieved greatness. You see, our mind is splint into 2 parts, the conscious mind and the sub-conscious mind.

The conscious mind is used for everyday reasons. But the sub-conscious mind is what most people now call the secret. What is this secret you may ask. The secret cannot be explained in this post. Some people will take almost a year to figure it out. But the basic part of it is, thoughts become things.

For example, if you believe you can beat someone, you can. Because your sub-conscious can't tell the difference between reality and fiction. So if you tell it that you are the best, you really are. And do try practicing this. And another thing, when you go off on say a vacation, and you pray that your house won't get robbed, well it will. Because you have already thought of it being robbed. Instead, do the positive thing and tell yourselves that nothing is going to happen. It's completely safe and it's still there. This is also called the law of attraction. If you think positive, you send out positive vibrations and vice-versa. You can might as well have a million bucks in your bank account if you believe it. If you tell your mind that you already are a millionaire, your mind will start working in ways so that you will achieve that.

When Donald Trump was younger, he went bankrupt. But he just simply told himself he was a billionaire. And look where he is now. So now are you guys getting the picture? I tried this out at the competition earlier. While i was waiting for my event, i just visualised my name up on the scoreboard doing a 1.10. And when it was the real thing, i did a 1.10. See the power of you mind? This ''secret'' has thought to be used by the likes of Albert Einstein and Beethoven before. Although this wasn't proven, imagine if it was true.

p/s sorry for the constant babbling but seriously, this stuff works. And if you think you guys have fallen asleep reading this, try living in my house where my dad talks about it everyday.