In almost every case, there will always be this hum you may hear from the stands. But no matter the chatter 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 around you silences. It's just you and the catchers mitt. Everything slows down and the space between you and the plate seems to shrink. You get this sort of tunnel vision and when you realize you are in that moment, you are close to unstoppable as it gets. Your body is in complete flow with your pitch by pitch mechanics and your motion becomes quite natural.
But there are other moments when you walk two of guys, a guy gets a lucky hit, somebody makes a mistake, and the game starts to speed up on you. When that happens, boy can you hear all of the really distractions around you. You can hear the other team screaming and yelling, you can hear once quiet people in the stands and throwing a strike becomes incredibly difficult.
How do we silence the noise and chatter in life?
How will we move past the phobia of failing - the phobia of success and not being able to handle it - the dread of being misinterpreted for something we aren't? How will we be less frightened of losing everything we have created? The hard part is, the larger the risk you take the greater the questions become surrounding it. What can we actually do to go forward?
We must realize that this is a component of the game.
Balls, strikes, home runs, blunders, over throws, passed balls, wild pitches, strikeouts, walks, that really is all just a part of the game. It is not about having a perfect game every day. You really can not do that. Pitching is about grooving when you have it and facing difficulty when you don't. There are so very many times you go out there and two of your pitches are not working well in any way. What the hell do you do when that goes down?! Start to focus on the fact that you do not have your changeup and curve, start pounding the strike zone with your best fastball - one that is backed by heart and has each last ounce of conviction behind it. Naturally you try to keep throwing the other pitches because you would like to find them during the game, but you cannot bring yourself into a negative space or else you will probably not going to ever make it out of the first inning.
The hum of the crowd is always going to be there and it can even get vicious on occasion. But it's better to be playing the game than sitting on the bench. It's far better to essentially be in some place facing feedback than to not be playing in the first place.
And here's the closer. If you can get to a place where you not only can tune out the negative things that folks say, but also use that as fuel...you will launch yourself farther than you ever possibly could have imagined. Use something negative and fashion a positive result with it. Perhaps that is actually the greatest kind of alchemy itself?
So get back to that place that you can focus competely on your mission and your purpose. There will always be viewpoints about what you are doing, but in the end of it all, you really do have to litsen to what's within you.
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 around you silences. It's just you and the catchers mitt. Everything slows down and the space between you and the plate seems to shrink. You get this sort of tunnel vision and when you realize you are in that moment, you are close to unstoppable as it gets. Your body is in complete flow with your pitch by pitch mechanics and your motion becomes quite natural.
But there are other moments when you walk two of guys, a guy gets a lucky hit, somebody makes a mistake, and the game starts to speed up on you. When that happens, boy can you hear all of the really distractions around you. You can hear the other team screaming and yelling, you can hear once quiet people in the stands and throwing a strike becomes incredibly difficult.
How do we silence the noise and chatter in life?
How will we move past the phobia of failing - the phobia of success and not being able to handle it - the dread of being misinterpreted for something we aren't? How will we be less frightened of losing everything we have created? The hard part is, the larger the risk you take the greater the questions become surrounding it. What can we actually do to go forward?
We must realize that this is a component of the game.
Balls, strikes, home runs, blunders, over throws, passed balls, wild pitches, strikeouts, walks, that really is all just a part of the game. It is not about having a perfect game every day. You really can not do that. Pitching is about grooving when you have it and facing difficulty when you don't. There are so very many times you go out there and two of your pitches are not working well in any way. What the hell do you do when that goes down?! Start to focus on the fact that you do not have your changeup and curve, start pounding the strike zone with your best fastball - one that is backed by heart and has each last ounce of conviction behind it. Naturally you try to keep throwing the other pitches because you would like to find them during the game, but you cannot bring yourself into a negative space or else you will probably not going to ever make it out of the first inning.
The hum of the crowd is always going to be there and it can even get vicious on occasion. But it's better to be playing the game than sitting on the bench. It's far better to essentially be in some place facing feedback than to not be playing in the first place.
And here's the closer. If you can get to a place where you not only can tune out the negative things that folks say, but also use that as fuel...you will launch yourself farther than you ever possibly could have imagined. Use something negative and fashion a positive result with it. Perhaps that is actually the greatest kind of alchemy itself?
So get back to that place that you can focus competely on your mission and your purpose. There will always be viewpoints about what you are doing, but in the end of it all, you really do have to litsen to what's within you.
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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