There will always be this hum you will hear from the stands. Though no matter the hum 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 are up on the mound pitching where the sounds the other team is making, the fans in the stands and everything else around you silences. It's just you and the catchers mitt. Everything slows down and the space 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 mechanics and your motion becomes second nature.
But there are other moments when you walk two of their guys, someone gets a hit, somebody makes a gaffe, and the game starts to speed up on you. When that occurs, boy are you able to hear all of the loud 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 incredibly tough.
How do we silence the outside and inside and chatter in life?
How will we move past the phobia of failing - the fear of success and not being able to handle it - the dread 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 larger the risk you take the larger 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, errors, over throws, passed balls, wild pitches, strikeouts, walks, that really is all part of the game. It is not about having an ideal game each day. You really 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 two of your pitches are not working well in any way. What the hell do you do when that happens?! Start to focus on the fact that you do not have your changeup and curve, start hitting the pitching zone with your best fastball - one that has each bit of conviction behind it. Naturally you try feeling it out and throwing the other pitches because you wish to find them throughout the course of the game, but you can't bring yourself into a negative space or else you are 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 at certain times. But it's better to be playing the game than sitting on the bench. It's better to really be in some place facing criticism than to not be playing at all.
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 farther than you ever might have imagined. Use something negative and create a positive result with it. Perhaps that's the greatest kind of alchemy itself?
So get back to that place that you can focus deeply on your objective and your purpose. There will always be views about what you are doing, but in the final analysis, you truly do have to litsen to what's inside.
Case closed.
Take competitive sports for example. In this case, baseball in particular.
There's this moment when you are up on the mound pitching where the sounds the other team is making, the fans in the stands and everything else around you silences. It's just you and the catchers mitt. Everything slows down and the space 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 mechanics and your motion becomes second nature.
But there are other moments when you walk two of their guys, someone gets a hit, somebody makes a gaffe, and the game starts to speed up on you. When that occurs, boy are you able to hear all of the loud 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 incredibly tough.
How do we silence the outside and inside and chatter in life?
How will we move past the phobia of failing - the fear of success and not being able to handle it - the dread 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 larger the risk you take the larger 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, errors, over throws, passed balls, wild pitches, strikeouts, walks, that really is all part of the game. It is not about having an ideal game each day. You really 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 two of your pitches are not working well in any way. What the hell do you do when that happens?! Start to focus on the fact that you do not have your changeup and curve, start hitting the pitching zone with your best fastball - one that has each bit of conviction behind it. Naturally you try feeling it out and throwing the other pitches because you wish to find them throughout the course of the game, but you can't bring yourself into a negative space or else you are 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 at certain times. But it's better to be playing the game than sitting on the bench. It's better to really be in some place facing criticism than to not be playing at all.
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 farther than you ever might have imagined. Use something negative and create a positive result with it. Perhaps that's the greatest kind of alchemy itself?
So get back to that place that you can focus deeply on your objective and your purpose. There will always be views about what you are doing, but in the final analysis, you truly do have to litsen to what's inside.
Case closed.
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