"Bring Out The Greatness Within You"
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
—Albert Einstein—
Seeing Is Believing
It’s the last day of the regular season and your team needs this win to become conference champions, and everything hinges on you becoming the hero. Your hands are perspiring, your heart is racing, and the sell-out crowd is shouting and screaming. You feel like there is no one else around you because you are so focused on winning this game. You then begin to perform your magic that ultimately brings home the crown for your school for the first time in twenty-five years. Your teammates and the fans rush to grab you, and your coaches can’t believe what just happened. You are a hero!
If you’ve ever played sports, this is something we’ve all dreamed about. Everyone wants to be a success, but they just don’t know how. You need to turn these dreams into reality. How? Through the use of visualization.
According to Denis Waitley in his book, “The New Dynamics of Winning,” he talks about a visualization checklist:
· When you visualize make sure it is an action scene with movement
· Visualize the successful outcome and the steps that lead to it
· Make sure you visualize things consistent with your moral values (is this in your best interest and the interest of others)
· See yourself as if you have already accomplished the goal
Remember; see yourself as you are actually participating in that sport. Think of having a camera on your shoulder as you are going through your visualization process.
Vision Boards
Vision boards can also enhance this process. Make up a board (cork board, e.g.) that has your goal(s) pictured on it. You might have several pictures of yourself pasted on it and have the caption read, “all conference” or “athlete of the week.” Use goal posts, soccer goals, tennis rackets, etc. if these are your sports to enhance the board.
Visualization is well practiced in the world of sports, so don’t brush this off. By the next blog, I would like you to create your own board and hang it where you can see it every day. Send me an email at tpperformer@aol.com telling me about your vision board as I would like to know.
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