MEET YOUR HOST
I’m Igor, a former professional athlete, three-time world champion, and trained sports psychologist who later moved into business and entrepreneurship.
I’ve spent years performing under pressure and learning what actually drives results. Not hype. Not shortcuts. But clarity, discipline, and focus.
MAF is for people who want to show up sharper in life. Expect practical mindset tools, honest reflections, and a small but necessary dose of humor along the way.
If that resonates, you’re in the right place.
TODAY’S TOPIC
🧠 Big goals sound great. But they don’t get done.
What gets done are small, clear actions.
Most people don’t lack motivation – they lack clarity.
Their goals are too big, too vague, too overwhelming.
So they wait. Overthink. Delay.
The fix is simple:
Break it down.
Make it so small you can’t avoid it.
Because progress isn’t built on big goals:
It’s built on small actions, done daily.
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
Deep dive
First things first — we have to move, and we have to start. Everything else only makes sense once we do this first part.
Goal one: Set one 😄
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
Deep dive
Ok, by this point you have your goal. Now it’s time to deal with that little voice in your head telling you that you can’t accomplish it – that it’s too big, too much, not realistic.
So what do we do?
We override it.
That voice might stay with you for a while and that’s ok. What matters is that you start moving before it shuts up.
Realistically, we don’t have time to deal with it lol.
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
Deep dive
Now we get to the good stuff.
You have your goal, check.
You handled the negative voice, check.
Now it’s time to break it down.
Take that big goal and cut it into small, no smaller, no even smaller baby steps. Make them so small they almost feel laughable.
Then just focus on those tiny pieces of progress. Stack those wins.
Day in, day out, win.
Win small, so you can win big.
📌 ON A PERSONAL NOTE
Link it to rowing: you never focus on the whole race –just the next stroke.
Rowing is a hard sport. At the end of the day, it is an extremely painful experience in which you are mostly dealing with your thoughts. You are telling yourself that you can do it and push through yet another crisis during the race. This is just a normal part of the sport, and there is no way around it.
I decided to tackle those crisis moments, as well as the race in general, by breaking down the distance into smaller, digestible pieces. A 2000 meter race into 500 meter pieces. 500 meter pieces into 250 meter pieces. 250 meter pieces into 3×10 strokes. And then I would focus only on those 10 strokes.
That is it. Just one super small and digestible piece of the whole race. Small enough for me to focus on here and now and not stress about the future that I have no influence over.
EXTRA MATERIAL
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😂 HUMOR SECTION
It’s about having the goals, whatever they may be lol
