In almost every case, there will always be this hum you will hear from the stands. Though no matter the hum going on, we must focus on the field of life.
Take 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 really appears 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 natural.
But there are other moments when you walk two of their guys, somebody gets a squib hit, someone makes a mistake, and the game starts to speed up on you. When that occurs, boy can you really hear all the lovely distractions around you. You can hear the other team screaming and yelling, you can hear the hum of the people in the stands and throwing a strike becomes extremely difficult.
How can we silence the noise feedback in life?
How will we move past the dread of failing - the fear of success and not having the stuff to handle it - the fear of being misinterpreted for something we aren't? How do we be less frightened of losing everything we have produced? The hard part is, the greater the risk you take the larger the questions become surrounding it. What can we do to go forward?
We have to notice that this is part of the game.
Balls, strikes, home runs, errors, over throws, passed balls, wild pitches, strikeouts, walks, that is all part of the game. It isn't about having a flawless game each and every day. You really can't 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 2 of your pitches aren't working well in any way. What the hell do you do when that occurs?! Target the fact that you do not have your changeup and curve, start pounding the zone with your best fastball - one which has each and every last ounce of conviction behind it. Naturally you try and keep throwing the other pitches because you would like to find them throughout the course of the game, but you can not 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 going to be there and it can even get vicious at times. But it's far better to be playing the game than sitting on the bench. It's far better to essentially be in a place facing feedback than to not be playing in any way.
And here's the closer. If you can get to a spot where you not only can tune out the negative things that folks say, but also use that as fuel...you will propel yourself farther and further than you ever could have imagined. Use something negative and make a positive result with it. Maybe that is the best kind of alchemy itself?
So get back to that place that you can focus hard on your objective and your purpose. There'll always be opinions about what you are doing, but in the end of it all, you truly do have to litsen to yourself.
Case closed.
Take 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 really appears 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 natural.
But there are other moments when you walk two of their guys, somebody gets a squib hit, someone makes a mistake, and the game starts to speed up on you. When that occurs, boy can you really hear all the lovely distractions around you. You can hear the other team screaming and yelling, you can hear the hum of the people in the stands and throwing a strike becomes extremely difficult.
How can we silence the noise feedback in life?
How will we move past the dread of failing - the fear of success and not having the stuff to handle it - the fear of being misinterpreted for something we aren't? How do we be less frightened of losing everything we have produced? The hard part is, the greater the risk you take the larger the questions become surrounding it. What can we do to go forward?
We have to notice that this is part of the game.
Balls, strikes, home runs, errors, over throws, passed balls, wild pitches, strikeouts, walks, that is all part of the game. It isn't about having a flawless game each and every day. You really can't 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 2 of your pitches aren't working well in any way. What the hell do you do when that occurs?! Target the fact that you do not have your changeup and curve, start pounding the zone with your best fastball - one which has each and every last ounce of conviction behind it. Naturally you try and keep throwing the other pitches because you would like to find them throughout the course of the game, but you can not 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 going to be there and it can even get vicious at times. But it's far better to be playing the game than sitting on the bench. It's far better to essentially be in a place facing feedback than to not be playing in any way.
And here's the closer. If you can get to a spot where you not only can tune out the negative things that folks say, but also use that as fuel...you will propel yourself farther and further than you ever could have imagined. Use something negative and make a positive result with it. Maybe that is the best kind of alchemy itself?
So get back to that place that you can focus hard on your objective and your purpose. There'll always be opinions about what you are doing, but in the end of it all, you truly do have to litsen to yourself.
Case closed.
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