No matter what, there will always be this hum you will hear from the stands. Though no matter the whispers 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 everything else in the stadium around you silences. It is just you and the catchers mitt. Everything slows down and the distance 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. Your body is in complete flow with your pitching mechanics and your motion becomes second nature.
But there are other moments when you walk 2 of guys, someone gets a hit, someone makes an error, and the game starts to accelerate on you. When that occurs, boy are you able to hear all of the lovely distractions around you. You can hear the other team screaming, you can hear once quiet people in the stands and throwing a strike becomes incredibly difficult.
How do we silence the outside and inside feedback in life?
How will we move past the phobia of failing - the phobia of success and not having the ability to handle it - the phobia of being misinterpreted for something we are not? How do we be less afraid 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 progress?
We have to notice that this is a component of the game.
Balls, strikes, home runs, blunders, over throws, passed balls, wild pitches, strikeouts, walks, that is all part of the game. It is not about having a flawless game each day. You actually can not do that. Pitching is about grooving when you have it and facing difficulty when you do not. There are so many times you go out there and a few of your pitches aren't working well in any way. What in the world do you do when that occurs?! 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. No matter what, you try and keep throwing the other pitches because you wish to find them throughout the course of the game, but you cannot bring yourself into a negative space or else you will probably 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's far better to be playing the game than sitting on the bench. It's far better to essentially be in a spot facing feedback than to not be playing at all.
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 propel yourself further than you ever possibly could have imagined. Use something negative and fashion a positive result with it. Perhaps that is actually the greatest kind of alchemy itself?
So get back to that place where you can focus deeply on your mission and your purpose. No matter what, there will always be viewpoints about what you are actually doing, but in the end of it all, 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're 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 distance 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. Your body is in complete flow with your pitching mechanics and your motion becomes second nature.
But there are other moments when you walk 2 of guys, someone gets a hit, someone makes an error, and the game starts to accelerate on you. When that occurs, boy are you able to hear all of the lovely distractions around you. You can hear the other team screaming, you can hear once quiet people in the stands and throwing a strike becomes incredibly difficult.
How do we silence the outside and inside feedback in life?
How will we move past the phobia of failing - the phobia of success and not having the ability to handle it - the phobia of being misinterpreted for something we are not? How do we be less afraid 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 progress?
We have to notice that this is a component of the game.
Balls, strikes, home runs, blunders, over throws, passed balls, wild pitches, strikeouts, walks, that is all part of the game. It is not about having a flawless game each day. You actually can not do that. Pitching is about grooving when you have it and facing difficulty when you do not. There are so many times you go out there and a few of your pitches aren't working well in any way. What in the world do you do when that occurs?! 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. No matter what, you try and keep throwing the other pitches because you wish to find them throughout the course of the game, but you cannot bring yourself into a negative space or else you will probably 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's far better to be playing the game than sitting on the bench. It's far better to essentially be in a spot facing feedback than to not be playing at all.
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 propel yourself further than you ever possibly could have imagined. Use something negative and fashion a positive result with it. Perhaps that is actually the greatest kind of alchemy itself?
So get back to that place where you can focus deeply on your mission and your purpose. No matter what, there will always be viewpoints about what you are actually doing, but in the end of it all, you really do have to litsen to yourself.
Case closed.
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