There will always be this hum you will hear from the stands. However 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 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 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 as it gets. Your body is in complete flow with your mechanics and your motion becomes quite natural.
But there are other moments when you walk two of guys, someone gets a hit, someone behind you makes a mistake, and the game starts to accelerate on you. When that goes down, boy are you able to hear all the loud distractions around you. You can hear the other team screaming, you can hear the hum of the people in the stands and throwing a strike becomes incredibly difficult.
How will we silence the inside and outside feedback in life?
How can we move past the dread of failing - the phobia of success and not being able to handle it - the fear of being misinterpreted for something we aren't? How can we be less afraid of losing everything we have created? The hard part is, the larger the risk you take the bigger the questions become surrounding it. What can we actually do to move forward?
We must realize that this is part of the game.
Balls, strikes, home runs, mess ups, over throws, passed balls, wild pitches, strikeouts, walks, that really is all just a part of the game. It's not about having a perfect game each and every day. You can not do that. Pitching is about grooving when you have it and facing adversity when you don't. There are so very many times you go out there and a few of your pitches are not 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 pounding the strike zone with your best fastball - one which has each bit of conviction behind it. Of course you try feeling it out and throwing the other pitches because you want to find them throughout the game, but you can not bring yourself into a negative space or else you are 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 on occasion. But it's better to be playing the game than sitting on the bench. It's far better to really be in a place facing brutal criticism than to not be playing in any way.
And here's the closer. If you can get to a place where you not only can tune out the negative things that people naturally say, but also use that as fuel...you will push yourself farther and further than you ever might have imagined. Use something negative and fashion a positive result with it. Maybe that's the best kind of alchemy itself?
So get back to that place where you can focus competely on your mission and your purpose. No matter what, there will always be views about what you are doing, but in the end, you really do have to litsen to yourself.
Case closed.
Take competitive sports 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 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 as it gets. Your body is in complete flow with your mechanics and your motion becomes quite natural.
But there are other moments when you walk two of guys, someone gets a hit, someone behind you makes a mistake, and the game starts to accelerate on you. When that goes down, boy are you able to hear all the loud distractions around you. You can hear the other team screaming, you can hear the hum of the people in the stands and throwing a strike becomes incredibly difficult.
How will we silence the inside and outside feedback in life?
How can we move past the dread of failing - the phobia of success and not being able to handle it - the fear of being misinterpreted for something we aren't? How can we be less afraid of losing everything we have created? The hard part is, the larger the risk you take the bigger the questions become surrounding it. What can we actually do to move forward?
We must realize that this is part of the game.
Balls, strikes, home runs, mess ups, over throws, passed balls, wild pitches, strikeouts, walks, that really is all just a part of the game. It's not about having a perfect game each and every day. You can not do that. Pitching is about grooving when you have it and facing adversity when you don't. There are so very many times you go out there and a few of your pitches are not 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 pounding the strike zone with your best fastball - one which has each bit of conviction behind it. Of course you try feeling it out and throwing the other pitches because you want to find them throughout the game, but you can not bring yourself into a negative space or else you are 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 on occasion. But it's better to be playing the game than sitting on the bench. It's far better to really be in a place facing brutal criticism than to not be playing in any way.
And here's the closer. If you can get to a place where you not only can tune out the negative things that people naturally say, but also use that as fuel...you will push yourself farther and further than you ever might have imagined. Use something negative and fashion a positive result with it. Maybe that's the best kind of alchemy itself?
So get back to that place where you can focus competely on your mission and your purpose. No matter what, there will always be views about what you are doing, but in the end, you really do have to litsen to yourself.
Case closed.
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