In almost every case, there will always be this hum you'll hear from the stands. Though no matter the chatter going on, we must focus on the field of life.
Take competitive sports for example. In this case, baseball in particular.
There's this moment when you are 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 seems to shrink. You get this kind 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 mechanics and your motion becomes quite natural.
But there are so many moments when you walk a couple of guys, somebody gets a hit, somebody makes a gaffe, and the game starts to speed up on you. When that occurs, boy can you really hear all of the loud 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 tough.
How can we silence the inside and outside criticism in life?
How can we move past the phobia of failing - the phobia of success and not having the ability to handle it - the fear of being misinterpreted for something we are not? How do we be less scared of losing everything we have produced? The hard part is, the bigger the risk you take the greater the questions become surrounding it. What can we actually do to move forward?
We must realize that this is a component of the game.
Balls, strikes, home runs, errors, over throws, passed balls, wild pitches, strikeouts, walks, that really is all a part of the game. It isn't about having a flawless game every day. You really cannot 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 even close to working well in the slightest. What on earth do you do when that occurs?! Target the fact that you don't have your changeup and curve, start hitting the strike zone with your best fastball - one that is backed by heart and has each and every last ounce of conviction behind it. Of course you try feeling it out and throwing the other pitches because you would like to find them throughout the game, but you can't bring yourself into a negative space or else you will probably not going to 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 times. But it is better to be playing the game than sitting on the bench. It's better to essentially be in a place facing criticism than to not be playing in the first place.
And here's the closer. If you can get to a spot where you not only can tune out the negative things that people say, but also use that as fuel...you will launch yourself farther and further than you ever might have imagined. Use something negative and make a positive result with it. Perhaps that is actually the greatest type of alchemy itself?
So get back to that place where you can focus competely on your objective and your purpose. There will always be viewpoints about what you are actually doing, but in the final analysis, you really do have to litsen to what's within you.
Case closed.
Take competitive sports for example. In this case, baseball in particular.
There's this moment when you are 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 seems to shrink. You get this kind 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 mechanics and your motion becomes quite natural.
But there are so many moments when you walk a couple of guys, somebody gets a hit, somebody makes a gaffe, and the game starts to speed up on you. When that occurs, boy can you really hear all of the loud 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 tough.
How can we silence the inside and outside criticism in life?
How can we move past the phobia of failing - the phobia of success and not having the ability to handle it - the fear of being misinterpreted for something we are not? How do we be less scared of losing everything we have produced? The hard part is, the bigger the risk you take the greater the questions become surrounding it. What can we actually do to move forward?
We must realize that this is a component of the game.
Balls, strikes, home runs, errors, over throws, passed balls, wild pitches, strikeouts, walks, that really is all a part of the game. It isn't about having a flawless game every day. You really cannot 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 even close to working well in the slightest. What on earth do you do when that occurs?! Target the fact that you don't have your changeup and curve, start hitting the strike zone with your best fastball - one that is backed by heart and has each and every last ounce of conviction behind it. Of course you try feeling it out and throwing the other pitches because you would like to find them throughout the game, but you can't bring yourself into a negative space or else you will probably not going to 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 times. But it is better to be playing the game than sitting on the bench. It's better to essentially be in a place facing criticism than to not be playing in the first place.
And here's the closer. If you can get to a spot where you not only can tune out the negative things that people say, but also use that as fuel...you will launch yourself farther and further than you ever might have imagined. Use something negative and make a positive result with it. Perhaps that is actually the greatest type of alchemy itself?
So get back to that place where you can focus competely on your objective and your purpose. There will always be viewpoints about what you are actually doing, but in the final analysis, 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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