There will always be this hum you'll hear from the stands. Though no matter the chatter 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 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 pitching mechanics and your motion becomes quite natural.
But there are challenging moments when you walk a couple of their guys, someone gets a squib hit, someone behind you makes an error, and the game starts to speed up on you. When that occurs, boy can you hear all of the lovely distractions around you. You can hear the other team screaming, you can hear people in the stands and throwing a strike becomes extremely difficult.
How do we silence the noise criticism in life?
How will we move past the fear of failing - the fear of success and not having the ability to handle it - the dread of being misinterpreted for something we aren't? How can we be less frightened of losing everything we have produced? The hard part is, the larger the risk you take the bigger the questions become surrounding it. What can we actually do to progress?
We have to understand that this is a component of the game.
Balls, strikes, home runs, blunders, over throws, passed balls, wild pitches, strikeouts, walks, that really is all just a part of the game. It is not about having a flawless game each day. You really can't do that. Pitching is about grooving when you have it and facing adversity 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 at all. What the hell do you do when that goes down?! Target the fact that you do not have your changeup and curve, start battering the zone with your best fastball - one that is backed by heart and has each and every bit of conviction behind it. Of course you try to keep throwing the other pitches because you would like to find them throughout the game, but you can not bring yourself into a negative space or else you are not going to ever 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 certain times. But it is better to be playing the game than sitting on the bench. It's better to really be in a place facing criticism than to not be playing in the first place.
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 farther than you ever might have imagined. Use something negative and fashion a positive result with it. Just maybe that is the best form of alchemy itself?
So get back to that place that you can focus deeply on your mission and your purpose. No matter what, there will always be viewpoints about what you're doing, but in the end of it all, 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 the environment 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 pitching mechanics and your motion becomes quite natural.
But there are challenging moments when you walk a couple of their guys, someone gets a squib hit, someone behind you makes an error, and the game starts to speed up on you. When that occurs, boy can you hear all of the lovely distractions around you. You can hear the other team screaming, you can hear people in the stands and throwing a strike becomes extremely difficult.
How do we silence the noise criticism in life?
How will we move past the fear of failing - the fear of success and not having the ability to handle it - the dread of being misinterpreted for something we aren't? How can we be less frightened of losing everything we have produced? The hard part is, the larger the risk you take the bigger the questions become surrounding it. What can we actually do to progress?
We have to understand that this is a component of the game.
Balls, strikes, home runs, blunders, over throws, passed balls, wild pitches, strikeouts, walks, that really is all just a part of the game. It is not about having a flawless game each day. You really can't do that. Pitching is about grooving when you have it and facing adversity 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 at all. What the hell do you do when that goes down?! Target the fact that you do not have your changeup and curve, start battering the zone with your best fastball - one that is backed by heart and has each and every bit of conviction behind it. Of course you try to keep throwing the other pitches because you would like to find them throughout the game, but you can not bring yourself into a negative space or else you are not going to ever 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 certain times. But it is better to be playing the game than sitting on the bench. It's better to really be in a place facing criticism than to not be playing in the first place.
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 farther than you ever might have imagined. Use something negative and fashion a positive result with it. Just maybe that is the best form of alchemy itself?
So get back to that place that you can focus deeply on your mission and your purpose. No matter what, there will always be viewpoints about what you're doing, but in the end of it all, you really do have to litsen to yourself.
Case closed.
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