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's just you and the catchers mitt. Everything slows down and the space between you and the plate really appears 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 natural.
But there are challenging moments when you walk a couple of guys, someone gets a lucky hit, someone makes a gaffe, and the game starts to accelerate on you. When that occurs, boy can you really hear all of the lovely distractions around you. You can hear the other team yelling, you can hear people in the stands and throwing a strike becomes incredibly tough.
How will we silence the inside and outside criticism in life?
How can we move past the dread of failing - the phobia of success and not having the stuff to handle it - the phobia of being misinterpreted for something we aren't? How will we be less scared of losing everything we have made? The hard part is, the greater the risk you take the greater the questions become surrounding it. What can we actually do to move forward?
We should realize that this is part of the game.
Balls, strikes, home runs, blunders, over throws, passed balls, wild pitches, strikeouts, walks, that is all a part of the game. It is not about having a perfect game each day. You actually 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 2 of your pitches aren't working well at all. What the hell do you do when that goes down?! Focus on the fact that you do not have your changeup and curve, start battering the zone with your best fastball - one which has every 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 not 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 going to be there and it can even get vicious at certain times. But it's better to be playing the game than sitting on the bench. It's better to actually be in some place facing criticism 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 people say, but also use that as fuel...you will push yourself farther than you ever possibly could have imagined. Use something negative and fashion a positive result with it. Just maybe that is the greatest type of alchemy itself?
So get back to that place you can focus hard on your target and your purpose. There will always be views about what you are actually doing, but in the final analysis, you really do have to litsen to what's inside.
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's just you and the catchers mitt. Everything slows down and the space between you and the plate really appears 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 natural.
But there are challenging moments when you walk a couple of guys, someone gets a lucky hit, someone makes a gaffe, and the game starts to accelerate on you. When that occurs, boy can you really hear all of the lovely distractions around you. You can hear the other team yelling, you can hear people in the stands and throwing a strike becomes incredibly tough.
How will we silence the inside and outside criticism in life?
How can we move past the dread of failing - the phobia of success and not having the stuff to handle it - the phobia of being misinterpreted for something we aren't? How will we be less scared of losing everything we have made? The hard part is, the greater the risk you take the greater the questions become surrounding it. What can we actually do to move forward?
We should realize that this is part of the game.
Balls, strikes, home runs, blunders, over throws, passed balls, wild pitches, strikeouts, walks, that is all a part of the game. It is not about having a perfect game each day. You actually 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 2 of your pitches aren't working well at all. What the hell do you do when that goes down?! Focus on the fact that you do not have your changeup and curve, start battering the zone with your best fastball - one which has every 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 not 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 going to be there and it can even get vicious at certain times. But it's better to be playing the game than sitting on the bench. It's better to actually be in some place facing criticism 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 people say, but also use that as fuel...you will push yourself farther than you ever possibly could have imagined. Use something negative and fashion a positive result with it. Just maybe that is the greatest type of alchemy itself?
So get back to that place you can focus hard on your target and your purpose. There will always be views about what you are actually doing, but in the final analysis, you really do have to litsen to what's inside.
Case closed.
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