No matter what, there will always be this hum you will hear from the stands. Though no matter the whispers 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 around you silences. It's just you and the catchers mitt. Everything slows down and the gap between you and the plate appears 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 mechanics and your motion becomes second nature.
But there are other moments when you walk a couple of their players, a guy gets a hit, somebody makes a gaffe, and the game starts to rapidly speed up on you. When that goes down, boy can you really hear all of the really 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 incredibly tough.
How do we silence the outside and inside criticism in life?
How do we move past the phobia of failing - the phobia of success and not having the ability to handle it - the phobia of being misinterpreted for something we aren't? How will we be less afraid of losing everything we have created? The hard part is, the larger the risk you take the larger the questions become surrounding it. What can we do to go forward?
We must realize that this is all part of the game.
Balls, strikes, home runs, mess ups, over throws, passed balls, wild pitches, strikeouts, walks, that is all just a part of the game. It is not about having an ideal game each and every day. You cannot do that. Pitching is about grooving when you have it and facing grief when you do not. There are so very many times you go out there and 2 of your pitches are not even close to working well in any way. What in the world do you do when that goes down?! Focus on the fact that you presently don't have your changeup and curve, start pounding the zone with your best fastball - one that has each and every last ounce of conviction behind it. No matter what, you try to keep throwing the other pitches because you would like to find them throughout the game, but you can't bring yourself into a negative space or else you are not going to make 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 is better to be playing the game than sitting on the bench. It's far better to actually be in some place facing brutal criticism than to not be playing at all.
And here's the closer. If you can get to a place where you not only can tune out the negative things that folks say, but also use that as fuel...you will propel yourself farther and further than you ever possibly could have imagined. Use something negative and fashion a positive result with it. Just maybe that is actually the greatest kind of alchemy itself?
So get back to that place you can focus hard on your objective and your purpose. No matter what, there will always be opinions about what you are doing, but in the end of it all, you really do have to litsen to yourself.
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 around you silences. It's just you and the catchers mitt. Everything slows down and the gap between you and the plate appears 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 mechanics and your motion becomes second nature.
But there are other moments when you walk a couple of their players, a guy gets a hit, somebody makes a gaffe, and the game starts to rapidly speed up on you. When that goes down, boy can you really hear all of the really 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 incredibly tough.
How do we silence the outside and inside criticism in life?
How do we move past the phobia of failing - the phobia of success and not having the ability to handle it - the phobia of being misinterpreted for something we aren't? How will we be less afraid of losing everything we have created? The hard part is, the larger the risk you take the larger the questions become surrounding it. What can we do to go forward?
We must realize that this is all part of the game.
Balls, strikes, home runs, mess ups, over throws, passed balls, wild pitches, strikeouts, walks, that is all just a part of the game. It is not about having an ideal game each and every day. You cannot do that. Pitching is about grooving when you have it and facing grief when you do not. There are so very many times you go out there and 2 of your pitches are not even close to working well in any way. What in the world do you do when that goes down?! Focus on the fact that you presently don't have your changeup and curve, start pounding the zone with your best fastball - one that has each and every last ounce of conviction behind it. No matter what, you try to keep throwing the other pitches because you would like to find them throughout the game, but you can't bring yourself into a negative space or else you are not going to make 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 is better to be playing the game than sitting on the bench. It's far better to actually be in some place facing brutal criticism than to not be playing at all.
And here's the closer. If you can get to a place where you not only can tune out the negative things that folks say, but also use that as fuel...you will propel yourself farther and further than you ever possibly could have imagined. Use something negative and fashion a positive result with it. Just maybe that is actually the greatest kind of alchemy itself?
So get back to that place you can focus hard on your objective and your purpose. No matter what, there will always be opinions about what you are doing, but in the end of it all, you really do have to litsen to yourself.
Case closed.
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