In almost every case, there will always be this hum you may 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're on the mound pitching where the sounds the other team is making, the fans in the stands and the environment around you silences. It's just you and the catchers mitt. Everything slows down and the gap 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. Your body is in complete flow with your pitch by pitch mechanics and your motion becomes quite natural.
But there are so many moments when you walk 2 of their players, somebody gets a lucky hit, somebody makes an error, and the game starts to accelerate on you. When that happens, boy can you hear all of the really lovely distractions around you. You can hear the other team yelling, you can hear people in the stands and throwing a strike becomes extremely difficult.
How will we silence the inside and outside feedback in life?
How can we move past the phobia of failing - the dread of success and not having the stuff to handle it - the fear of being misinterpreted for something we are not? How will we be less scared of losing everything we have produced? The hard part is, the bigger the risk you take the bigger the questions become surrounding it. What can we do to go 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 is all just a part of the game. It's not about having an ideal game each day. You actually can not do that. Pitching is about grooving when you have it and facing adversity when you don't. There are so many times you go out there and two of your pitches aren't working well in any way. What on earth do you do when that happens?! Start to focus on the fact that you presently don't have your changeup and curve, start battering the pitching zone with your best fastball - one which has every last ounce of conviction behind it. Naturally you try to keep throwing the other pitches because you want to find them throughout the game, but you cannot 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 times. But it is better to be playing the game than sitting on the bench. It's better to essentially be in a spot facing criticism than to not be playing in the first place.
And here's the closer. If you can get to a mindset where you not only can tune out the negative things that people say, but also use that as fuel...you will propel yourself further than you ever possibly could have imagined. Use something negative and make a positive result with it. Perhaps that's the finest kind of alchemy itself?
So get back to that place that you can focus hard on your mission and your purpose. No matter what, 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 within you.
Case closed.
Take competitive sports for example. In this case, baseball in particular.
There's this moment when you're on the mound pitching where the sounds the other team is making, the fans in the stands and the environment around you silences. It's just you and the catchers mitt. Everything slows down and the gap 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. Your body is in complete flow with your pitch by pitch mechanics and your motion becomes quite natural.
But there are so many moments when you walk 2 of their players, somebody gets a lucky hit, somebody makes an error, and the game starts to accelerate on you. When that happens, boy can you hear all of the really lovely distractions around you. You can hear the other team yelling, you can hear people in the stands and throwing a strike becomes extremely difficult.
How will we silence the inside and outside feedback in life?
How can we move past the phobia of failing - the dread of success and not having the stuff to handle it - the fear of being misinterpreted for something we are not? How will we be less scared of losing everything we have produced? The hard part is, the bigger the risk you take the bigger the questions become surrounding it. What can we do to go 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 is all just a part of the game. It's not about having an ideal game each day. You actually can not do that. Pitching is about grooving when you have it and facing adversity when you don't. There are so many times you go out there and two of your pitches aren't working well in any way. What on earth do you do when that happens?! Start to focus on the fact that you presently don't have your changeup and curve, start battering the pitching zone with your best fastball - one which has every last ounce of conviction behind it. Naturally you try to keep throwing the other pitches because you want to find them throughout the game, but you cannot 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 times. But it is better to be playing the game than sitting on the bench. It's better to essentially be in a spot facing criticism than to not be playing in the first place.
And here's the closer. If you can get to a mindset where you not only can tune out the negative things that people say, but also use that as fuel...you will propel yourself further than you ever possibly could have imagined. Use something negative and make a positive result with it. Perhaps that's the finest kind of alchemy itself?
So get back to that place that you can focus hard on your mission and your purpose. No matter what, 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 within you.
Case closed.
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