There will always be this hum you may hear from the stands. But 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 everything else in the stadium around you silences. It is just you and the catchers mitt. Everything slows down and the gap between you and the plate seems to shrink. You get this type 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 pitch by pitch mechanics and your motion becomes second nature.
But there are challenging moments when you walk a couple of their guys, a guy gets a lucky hit, somebody makes a gaffe, and the game starts to accelerate on you. When that goes down, boy are you able to hear all of the really lovely distractions around you. You can hear the other team yelling, you can hear the hum of the people in the stands and throwing a strike becomes extremely difficult.
How will we silence the inside and outside feedback in life?
How will we move past the fear of failing - the fear of success and not having the ability to handle it - the fear of being misinterpreted for something we aren't? How can we be less scared of losing everything we have produced? The hard part is, the larger the risk you take the larger the questions become surrounding it. What can we actually do to progress?
We must understand that this is a component 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 isn't about having a perfect game each day. You actually cannot do that. Pitching is about grooving when you have it and facing adversity when you have nothing at all. There are so 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 happens?! Target the fact that you do not have your changeup and curve, start hitting the zone with your best fastball - one which has every ounce of conviction behind it. No matter what, you try feeling it out and throwing the other pitches because you wish to find them during the game, but you cannot bring yourself into a negative space or else you're not be making it out of the first inning.
The hum of the crowd is always going 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 is better to really be in some 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 push yourself further than you ever might have imagined. Use something negative and make a positive result with it. Maybe that is actually the best kind of alchemy itself?
So get back to that place that you can focus deeply on your mission 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 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 everything else in the stadium around you silences. It is just you and the catchers mitt. Everything slows down and the gap between you and the plate seems to shrink. You get this type 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 pitch by pitch mechanics and your motion becomes second nature.
But there are challenging moments when you walk a couple of their guys, a guy gets a lucky hit, somebody makes a gaffe, and the game starts to accelerate on you. When that goes down, boy are you able to hear all of the really lovely distractions around you. You can hear the other team yelling, you can hear the hum of the people in the stands and throwing a strike becomes extremely difficult.
How will we silence the inside and outside feedback in life?
How will we move past the fear of failing - the fear of success and not having the ability to handle it - the fear of being misinterpreted for something we aren't? How can we be less scared of losing everything we have produced? The hard part is, the larger the risk you take the larger the questions become surrounding it. What can we actually do to progress?
We must understand that this is a component 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 isn't about having a perfect game each day. You actually cannot do that. Pitching is about grooving when you have it and facing adversity when you have nothing at all. There are so 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 happens?! Target the fact that you do not have your changeup and curve, start hitting the zone with your best fastball - one which has every ounce of conviction behind it. No matter what, you try feeling it out and throwing the other pitches because you wish to find them during the game, but you cannot bring yourself into a negative space or else you're not be making it out of the first inning.
The hum of the crowd is always going 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 is better to really be in some 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 push yourself further than you ever might have imagined. Use something negative and make a positive result with it. Maybe that is actually the best kind of alchemy itself?
So get back to that place that you can focus deeply on your mission 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 yourself.
Case closed.
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