OH! Magazine - Australian Version July 2015

MIKE CAMPBELL SUCCESS IS A TEAM SPORT Mike Campbell provides these training tips to help you create some awesome abs. top thinking you’re so great. I know the thought that runs through your head – ‘Ah, I’ll be right. I’ve got it covered’ S need help. Maybe not with everything, but to achieve anything of significance or value, you will require support and the guidance of others. But do you? Do you really? The thought about us not needing help is sometimes a deeply buried belief that we can do everything all by ourselves. And often this has been ingrained from a very young age. As boys society tells us to ‘man up’, ‘harden up’, ‘don’t cry’, ‘don’t be a girl’. We see it at school, on TV and in the movies, so it’s understandable how we absorb the message on some level. The result can be a feeling that we need to be able to do everything ourselves and we can never be vulnerable or ask for help. As we become teenage boys, the pack mentality that may emerge during male adolescence means we soon think two dangerous things: 1) that we’re ten foot tall; and 2) that we’re bulletproof! And this can be where the ‘I’ll be right, mate!’ attitude can stem from. But guess what? You won’t! Because no man is an island and everyone who is genuinely content and who achieves true success (whatever that means for them) needs other people along the way! While every man should be able to look within for strength, to succeed in anything in life we have to realise two things: 1. If you could have done this alone, you would have done it by now. 2. In order to achieve success you must build a team. The key here, is to get over yourself and realise that at some point in time you will 20 JULY 2015 ( OH! MAGAZINE ) This can be a tough ask though, right – admitting that we need help? Probably because for many of us, asking for help makes us feel vulnerable or weak. So let’s make a pact, right now. A pact to forever reverse that notion. How about we flip that perspective on its head and start believing that to be vulnerable is to be courageous. We have to take off that mask of faux masculinity, drop our ego, get out of our own way and break what’s comfortable, in order to truly grow and develop. That is being truly vulnerable, and that is being authentically courageous. In doing this, think about what success you can achieve. Ask yourself how it will feel to be free to ask for unlimited assistance, expertise, support and encouragement of others. Now use tha t desire to fuel your future actions. Next, think about how you can make it happen by identifying the tools and resources you don’t have yourself but need in order to achieve your goals. Then find the expertise. Ask for help, seek advice, undertake coaching, participate in a mentoring program, seek accountability from those who can assist you and keep you on the path to success. Success will lie in building a team around you who will help you reach your end-goal. You won’t be any less of a man by asking for assistance. No one is judging you except yourself. And even if they are, who cares? Does one person’s opinion really matter? The only judging that matters is from you, and how you compare to your former self. And then, the opinions of those you choose to have in your team. If you continue to be afraid to ask for help then you will remain stagnant. So... who’s on your team? http://unleashyouralpha.com ( Men’s Health )

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