MESSAGE #1471
Thinking too much about how you are doing when you are doing it is disastrous.
-Harvey Penick
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MESSAGE #1302 DOUBT YOUR DOUBTS
One of my favorite sayings is:
“Doubt your doubts.”
We all have a little negative voice inside our heads that shows up every once in a while (more often for some people).
Recently, I was coaching some tennis players and I introduced topspin to them. Before they even hit one ball, one of the players said, “Oh, I can’t do that.”
I was in shock.
This was a grown woman and she was counting herself out before she even started.
Fortunately, I was able to help her re-frame her negative voice and she actually performed quite well, but it could have been ugly. This type of limiting attitude is quite common, but we can choose to believe it, or doubt it.
Choose wisely.
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MESSAGE #1279 WHAT DIRECTION ARE YOU HEADED?
“The distance one goes is not as important as the direction.”
-author unknown
How hard you work does not matter if you are doing the wrong things.
How are you practicing?
How are you studying?
How are you working?
There is a big difference between movement and progress.
If you know where you want to go, just keep doing the things that will help you get there.
Buddha said:
“If we are heading in the right direction, all we must do is keep walking.”
MESSAGE #963 THE WAY OF LIFE
A man is born gentle and weak.
At his death he is hard and stiff.
Green plants are tender and filled with sap.
At their death they are withered and dry.
Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death.
The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.
Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle.
A tree that is unbending is easily broken.
The hard and the strong will fall.
The soft and the weak will overcome.
-LAO TZU
MESSAGE #644 WORLD LAUGHTER DAY…
“Angels can fly because they take things lightly.”
-author unknown
Yesterday was World Laughter Day.
Is this a necessary day?
Well, we have Administrative Assistants Day.
We have National Nurses Day.
And we have National Boss Day.
I think that people create special days because of under appreciation.
The power of laughter is certainly under appreciated.
Laughter can strengthen your immune system, reduce stress, lower blood pressure, improve brain function, protect your heart, and make you feel good.
Oh, and I forgot…
Laughter can help you perform better in your sport and job.
Do you ever get nervous? Do you ever feel pressure? Do you ever feel like you’re thinking too much?
Laughter can help. It loosens you up.
When you laugh, you loosen up physically.
When you loosen up physically, you lighten up mentally.
When you lighten up mentally, you play better.
When you play better, you win!
Seek out ways to laugh: watch a funny DVD, go to a comedy club, listen to comedians while driving, seek out funny people.
“If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.”
-STEVEN WRIGHT
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MESSAGE #538 DO THIS, WHETHER YOU WANT TO OR NOT…
I’ve worked with athletes of all levels and from all different sports. I’ve worked with students, business professionals, stay-at-home parents and musicians. One of the secrets is that you can act differently than how you feel. If you act how you want to feel, pretty soon you will feel how you act. Let me explain in a quote…
“No matter how much madder it may make you, get out of bed forcing a smile. You may not smile because you are cheerful; but if you will force yourself to smile, you’ll end up laughing. You will be cheerful because you smile. Repeated experiments prove that when man assumes the facial expression of a given mental mood-any given mood-then that mental mood itself will follow.”
-KENNETH GOODE
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