There will always be this hum you will hear from the stands. However no matter the hum going on, we must focus on the field of life.
Take the sports we play 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 kind of tunnel vision and when you realize you are in that moment, you are close to unhittable. 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 two of their guys, somebody gets a lucky hit, somebody makes a gaffe, and the game starts to rapidly speed up on you. When that happens, boy are you able to hear all of 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 can we silence the inside and outside feedback in life?
How do we move past the phobia of failing - the dread of success and not having the ability to handle it - the phobia of being misinterpreted for something we aren't? How can we be less scared of losing everything we have made? The hard part is, the bigger the risk you take the bigger the questions become surrounding it. What are we able to do to move forward?
We should notice that this is a component of the game.
Balls, strikes, home runs, mess ups, over throws, passed balls, wild pitches, strikeouts, walks, that's all part of the game. It isn't about having a perfect game each day. You can not do that. Pitching is about grooving when you have it and facing difficulty when you don't. There are that many times you go out there and two of your pitches are not even close to working well in the slightest. What in the world do you do when that goes down?! Start to focus on the fact that you don't have your changeup and curve, start battering the 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 would like to find them during the game, but you can not bring yourself into a negative space or else you will probably not going to make it out of the first inning.
The hum of the crowd is usually 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 actually be in a spot facing brutal criticism 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 launch yourself farther than you ever could have imagined. Use something negative and make a positive result with it. Perhaps that's the best form of alchemy itself?
So get back to that place where you can focus deeply on your target and your purpose. There will always be viewpoints about what you are actually doing, but in the final analysis, you really do have to litsen to what's inside.
Case closed.
Take the sports we play 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 kind of tunnel vision and when you realize you are in that moment, you are close to unhittable. 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 two of their guys, somebody gets a lucky hit, somebody makes a gaffe, and the game starts to rapidly speed up on you. When that happens, boy are you able to hear all of 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 can we silence the inside and outside feedback in life?
How do we move past the phobia of failing - the dread of success and not having the ability to handle it - the phobia of being misinterpreted for something we aren't? How can we be less scared of losing everything we have made? The hard part is, the bigger the risk you take the bigger the questions become surrounding it. What are we able to do to move forward?
We should notice that this is a component of the game.
Balls, strikes, home runs, mess ups, over throws, passed balls, wild pitches, strikeouts, walks, that's all part of the game. It isn't about having a perfect game each day. You can not do that. Pitching is about grooving when you have it and facing difficulty when you don't. There are that many times you go out there and two of your pitches are not even close to working well in the slightest. What in the world do you do when that goes down?! Start to focus on the fact that you don't have your changeup and curve, start battering the 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 would like to find them during the game, but you can not bring yourself into a negative space or else you will probably not going to make it out of the first inning.
The hum of the crowd is usually 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 actually be in a spot facing brutal criticism 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 launch yourself farther than you ever could have imagined. Use something negative and make a positive result with it. Perhaps that's the best form of alchemy itself?
So get back to that place where you can focus deeply on your target and your purpose. There will always be viewpoints about what you are actually doing, but in the final analysis, you really do have to litsen to what's inside.
Case closed.
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