No matter what, there will always be this hum you'll hear from the stands. Though no matter the whispers 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 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's just you and the catchers mitt. Everything slows down and the gap 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 mechanics and your motion becomes quite natural.
But there are other moments when you walk two of their players, a guy gets a squib hit, someone behind you makes a gaffe, and the game starts to rapidly speed up on you. When that happens, boy can you really hear all of the really 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 will we silence the noise criticism in life?
How can we move past the phobia of failing - the fear of success and not having the stuff to handle it - the dread of being misinterpreted for something we are not? How do we be less scared of losing everything we have created? The hard part is, the larger the risk you take the bigger the questions become surrounding it. What are we able to do to move forward?
We must notice that this is part of the game.
Balls, strikes, home runs, mess ups, over throws, passed balls, wild pitches, strikeouts, walks, that's all just a part of the game. It isn't about having a flawless game each day. You actually can't do that. Pitching is about grooving when you have it and facing grief when you have nothing at all. There are so very many times you go out there and a few of your pitches are not even close to working well in any way. What on earth do you do when that happens?! Start to focus on the fact that you do not have your changeup and curve, start pounding the strike zone with your best fastball - one that has each and every last ounce of conviction behind it. No matter what, you try and keep throwing the other pitches because you wish to find them throughout the course of the game, but you cannot bring yourself into a negative space or else you're not be making it out of the first inning.
The hum of the crowd is usually going to be there and it can even get vicious on occasion. But it's far better to be playing the game than sitting on the bench. It's far better to actually be in some place facing criticism than to not be playing in the first place.
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 launch yourself farther than you ever could have imagined. Use something negative and create a positive result with it. Maybe that is actually the best type of alchemy itself?
So get back to that place that you can focus competely on your objective and your purpose. No matter what, there will always be views about what you are actually doing, but in the end of it all, you really do have to litsen to what's within you.
Case closed.
Take sports 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's just you and the catchers mitt. Everything slows down and the gap 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 mechanics and your motion becomes quite natural.
But there are other moments when you walk two of their players, a guy gets a squib hit, someone behind you makes a gaffe, and the game starts to rapidly speed up on you. When that happens, boy can you really hear all of the really 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 will we silence the noise criticism in life?
How can we move past the phobia of failing - the fear of success and not having the stuff to handle it - the dread of being misinterpreted for something we are not? How do we be less scared of losing everything we have created? The hard part is, the larger the risk you take the bigger the questions become surrounding it. What are we able to do to move forward?
We must notice that this is part of the game.
Balls, strikes, home runs, mess ups, over throws, passed balls, wild pitches, strikeouts, walks, that's all just a part of the game. It isn't about having a flawless game each day. You actually can't do that. Pitching is about grooving when you have it and facing grief when you have nothing at all. There are so very many times you go out there and a few of your pitches are not even close to working well in any way. What on earth do you do when that happens?! Start to focus on the fact that you do not have your changeup and curve, start pounding the strike zone with your best fastball - one that has each and every last ounce of conviction behind it. No matter what, you try and keep throwing the other pitches because you wish to find them throughout the course of the game, but you cannot bring yourself into a negative space or else you're not be making it out of the first inning.
The hum of the crowd is usually going to be there and it can even get vicious on occasion. But it's far better to be playing the game than sitting on the bench. It's far better to actually be in some place facing criticism than to not be playing in the first place.
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 launch yourself farther than you ever could have imagined. Use something negative and create a positive result with it. Maybe that is actually the best type of alchemy itself?
So get back to that place that you can focus competely on your objective and your purpose. No matter what, there will always be views about what you are actually doing, but in the end of it all, you really do have to litsen to what's within you.
Case closed.
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