No matter what, there will always be this hum you may hear from the stands. But no matter the chatter 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 are on the mound pitching where the sounds the other team is making, the fans in the stands and everything else 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 type 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 challenging moments when you walk two of guys, somebody gets a squib hit, someone makes a gaffe, and the game starts to accelerate on you. When that goes down, boy can you hear all of the lovely distractions around you. You can hear the other team yelling, you can hear once quiet people in the stands and throwing a strike becomes extremely difficult.
How do we silence the outside and inside criticism in life?
How will we move past the dread of failing - the dread of success and not having the ability to handle it - the fear of being misinterpreted for something we're not? How will we be less afraid of losing everything we have produced? The hard part is, the bigger the risk you take the larger the questions become surrounding it. What can we actually do to progress?
We have to notice that this is all part of the game.
Balls, strikes, home runs, blunders, over throws, passed balls, wild pitches, strikeouts, walks, that is all part of the game. It isn't about having a perfect game each day. You cannot 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 2 of your pitches are not working well at all. What the hell do you do when that goes down?! Focus on the fact that you don't have your changeup and curve, start pounding the pitching zone with your best fastball - one which has each and every last ounce of conviction behind it. No matter what, you try feeling it out and throwing the other pitches because you would like to find them throughout the course of the game, but you can't 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 times. But it is better to be playing the game than sitting on the bench. It's far better to actually be in a spot 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 naturally say, but also use that as fuel...you will push yourself farther than you ever might have imagined. Use something negative and fashion a positive result with it. Perhaps that is the greatest type of alchemy itself?
So get back to that place where you can focus hard on your target and your purpose. There'll always be opinions about what you are doing, but in the end, 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 are on the mound pitching where the sounds the other team is making, the fans in the stands and everything else 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 type 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 challenging moments when you walk two of guys, somebody gets a squib hit, someone makes a gaffe, and the game starts to accelerate on you. When that goes down, boy can you hear all of the lovely distractions around you. You can hear the other team yelling, you can hear once quiet people in the stands and throwing a strike becomes extremely difficult.
How do we silence the outside and inside criticism in life?
How will we move past the dread of failing - the dread of success and not having the ability to handle it - the fear of being misinterpreted for something we're not? How will we be less afraid of losing everything we have produced? The hard part is, the bigger the risk you take the larger the questions become surrounding it. What can we actually do to progress?
We have to notice that this is all part of the game.
Balls, strikes, home runs, blunders, over throws, passed balls, wild pitches, strikeouts, walks, that is all part of the game. It isn't about having a perfect game each day. You cannot 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 2 of your pitches are not working well at all. What the hell do you do when that goes down?! Focus on the fact that you don't have your changeup and curve, start pounding the pitching zone with your best fastball - one which has each and every last ounce of conviction behind it. No matter what, you try feeling it out and throwing the other pitches because you would like to find them throughout the course of the game, but you can't 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 times. But it is better to be playing the game than sitting on the bench. It's far better to actually be in a spot 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 naturally say, but also use that as fuel...you will push yourself farther than you ever might have imagined. Use something negative and fashion a positive result with it. Perhaps that is the greatest type of alchemy itself?
So get back to that place where you can focus hard on your target and your purpose. There'll always be opinions about what you are doing, but in the end, you really do have to litsen to what's inside.
Case closed.
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