In almost every case, there will always be this hum you may hear from the stands. However no matter the hum 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 up on the mound pitching where the sounds the other team is making, the fans in the stands and everything else in the stadium around you silences. It's just you and the catchers mitt. Everything slows down and the distance between you and the plate really appears to shrink. You get this sort 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 pitching mechanics and your motion becomes second nature.
But there are so many moments when you walk two of their players, a guy gets a lucky hit, somebody makes an error, and the game starts to rapidly speed up on you. When that goes down, boy can you hear all the loud distractions around you. You can hear the other team screaming, you can hear once quiet people in the stands and throwing a strike becomes incredibly tough.
How do we silence the noise and chatter in life?
How can we move past the fear of failing - the phobia of success and not being able to handle it - the dread of being misinterpreted for something we are not? How can we be less scared of losing everything we have produced? The hard part is, the greater the risk you take the larger the questions become surrounding it. What are we able to do to move forward?
We have to notice that this is all part of the game.
Balls, strikes, home runs, errors, over throws, passed balls, wild pitches, strikeouts, walks, that really is all a part of the game. It is not about having a flawless game each and every day. You can not do that. Pitching is about grooving when you have it and facing grief when you don't. There are so very many times you go out there and 2 of your pitches are not working well in the slightest. What on earth do you do when that goes down?! Start to focus on the fact that you don't have your changeup and curve, start hitting the strike zone with your best fastball - one that is backed by heart and has each and every last ounce of conviction behind it. Of course you try feeling it out and throwing the other pitches because you want to find them throughout the game, but you can not bring yourself into a negative space or else you will probably not going to make it out of the first inning.
The hum of the crowd is always likely 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 some place facing criticism than to not be playing in any way.
And here's the closer. If you can get to a spot where you not only can tune out the negative things that people say, but also use that as fuel...you will propel yourself further than you ever possibly could have imagined. Use something negative and create a positive result with it. Perhaps that is the best form of alchemy itself?
So get back to that place you can focus competely on your mission and your purpose. There will always be viewpoints about what you're doing, but in the end of it all, you really do have to litsen to yourself.
Case closed.
Take 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 in the stadium around you silences. It's just you and the catchers mitt. Everything slows down and the distance between you and the plate really appears to shrink. You get this sort 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 pitching mechanics and your motion becomes second nature.
But there are so many moments when you walk two of their players, a guy gets a lucky hit, somebody makes an error, and the game starts to rapidly speed up on you. When that goes down, boy can you hear all the loud distractions around you. You can hear the other team screaming, you can hear once quiet people in the stands and throwing a strike becomes incredibly tough.
How do we silence the noise and chatter in life?
How can we move past the fear of failing - the phobia of success and not being able to handle it - the dread of being misinterpreted for something we are not? How can we be less scared of losing everything we have produced? The hard part is, the greater the risk you take the larger the questions become surrounding it. What are we able to do to move forward?
We have to notice that this is all part of the game.
Balls, strikes, home runs, errors, over throws, passed balls, wild pitches, strikeouts, walks, that really is all a part of the game. It is not about having a flawless game each and every day. You can not do that. Pitching is about grooving when you have it and facing grief when you don't. There are so very many times you go out there and 2 of your pitches are not working well in the slightest. What on earth do you do when that goes down?! Start to focus on the fact that you don't have your changeup and curve, start hitting the strike zone with your best fastball - one that is backed by heart and has each and every last ounce of conviction behind it. Of course you try feeling it out and throwing the other pitches because you want to find them throughout the game, but you can not bring yourself into a negative space or else you will probably not going to make it out of the first inning.
The hum of the crowd is always likely 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 some place facing criticism than to not be playing in any way.
And here's the closer. If you can get to a spot where you not only can tune out the negative things that people say, but also use that as fuel...you will propel yourself further than you ever possibly could have imagined. Use something negative and create a positive result with it. Perhaps that is the best form of alchemy itself?
So get back to that place you can focus competely on your mission and your purpose. There will always be viewpoints about what you're doing, but in the end of it all, you really do have to litsen to yourself.
Case closed.
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