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There will always be this hum you may hear from the stands. But no matter the whispers going on, we must focus on the field of life.
Take the sports we play for example. In this case, baseball in particular.
There's this moment when you are up on the mound pitching where the sounds the other team is making, the fans in the stands and everything else in the stadium around you silences. It is just you and the catchers mitt. Everything slows down and the space between you and the plate appears to shrink. You get this kind of tunnel vision and when you realize you are in that moment, you are close to unstoppable. Your body is in complete flow with your pitch by pitch mechanics and your motion becomes second nature.
But there are so many moments when you walk two of their players, somebody gets a hit, somebody makes an error, and the game starts to rapidly speed up on you. When that occurs, boy are you able to hear all of the really loud distractions around you. You can hear the other team screaming, you can hear once quiet people in the stands and throwing a strike becomes incredibly difficult.
How will we silence the outside and inside and chatter in life?
How do we move past the phobia of failing - the phobia of success and not having the stuff to handle it - the phobia of being misinterpreted for something we are not? How will we be less afraid of losing everything we have produced? The hard part is, the greater the risk you take the larger the questions become surrounding it. What are we able to do to progress?
We have to notice that this is all part of the game.
Balls, strikes, home runs, mess ups, over throws, passed balls, wild pitches, strikeouts, walks, that really is all a part of the game. It isn't about having an ideal game each and every day. You cannot do that. Pitching is about grooving when you have it and facing adversity when you have nothing at all. There are so very many times you go out there and a few of your pitches aren't working well in any way. What the hell do you do when that occurs?! Focus on the fact that you do not have your changeup and curve, start pounding the zone with your best fastball - one which has each last ounce of conviction behind it. Naturally you try and keep throwing the other pitches because you want to find them throughout the course of the game, but you can not bring yourself into a negative space or else you're not going to ever make it out of the first inning.
The hum of the crowd is always likely to be there and it can even get vicious at certain times. But it is better to be playing the game than sitting on the bench. It's better to actually be in a spot facing feedback than to not be playing at all.
And here's the closer. If you can get to a mindset where you not only can tune out the negative things that folks say, but also use that as fuel...you will launch yourself farther and further than you ever could have imagined. Use something negative and create a positive result with it. Perhaps that is the best kind of alchemy itself?
So get back to that place where you can focus deeply on your objective and your purpose. There will always be opinions about what you are doing, but in the final analysis, you truly do have to litsen to what's inside.
Case closed.
Take the sports we play for example. In this case, baseball in particular.
There's this moment when you are up on the mound pitching where the sounds the other team is making, the fans in the stands and everything else in the stadium around you silences. It is just you and the catchers mitt. Everything slows down and the space between you and the plate appears to shrink. You get this kind of tunnel vision and when you realize you are in that moment, you are close to unstoppable. Your body is in complete flow with your pitch by pitch mechanics and your motion becomes second nature.
But there are so many moments when you walk two of their players, somebody gets a hit, somebody makes an error, and the game starts to rapidly speed up on you. When that occurs, boy are you able to hear all of the really loud distractions around you. You can hear the other team screaming, you can hear once quiet people in the stands and throwing a strike becomes incredibly difficult.
How will we silence the outside and inside and chatter in life?
How do we move past the phobia of failing - the phobia of success and not having the stuff to handle it - the phobia of being misinterpreted for something we are not? How will we be less afraid of losing everything we have produced? The hard part is, the greater the risk you take the larger the questions become surrounding it. What are we able to do to progress?
We have to notice that this is all part of the game.
Balls, strikes, home runs, mess ups, over throws, passed balls, wild pitches, strikeouts, walks, that really is all a part of the game. It isn't about having an ideal game each and every day. You cannot do that. Pitching is about grooving when you have it and facing adversity when you have nothing at all. There are so very many times you go out there and a few of your pitches aren't working well in any way. What the hell do you do when that occurs?! Focus on the fact that you do not have your changeup and curve, start pounding the zone with your best fastball - one which has each last ounce of conviction behind it. Naturally you try and keep throwing the other pitches because you want to find them throughout the course of the game, but you can not bring yourself into a negative space or else you're not going to ever make it out of the first inning.
The hum of the crowd is always likely to be there and it can even get vicious at certain times. But it is better to be playing the game than sitting on the bench. It's better to actually be in a spot facing feedback than to not be playing at all.
And here's the closer. If you can get to a mindset where you not only can tune out the negative things that folks say, but also use that as fuel...you will launch yourself farther and further than you ever could have imagined. Use something negative and create a positive result with it. Perhaps that is the best kind of alchemy itself?
So get back to that place where you can focus deeply on your objective and your purpose. There will always be opinions about what you are doing, but in the final analysis, you truly do have to litsen to what's inside.
Case closed.
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Evan Sanders is the author and creator of The Words of Encouragement, a website dedicated to bringing inspiring blogs, quotes, and wisdom to it's readers so they can live the best lives possible. Want more sport motivation? Start your journey today by heading over to the site today.
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