Focus: A Key to Success

Do you have the ability to focus on command? Follow this 5 steps to clear your mind:

1. Decide What You Really Want to Accomplish

2. Write Out Tasks That Will Help You Achieve What You Want

3. Write Out Unessential Tasks You’ve Been Doing

4. Start Doing Only the Essential Tasks

5. Begin Enjoying Your Increasingly Clear Mind

Composure

Athletes who focus too much on results or what others think, instead of the process, are likely to become anxious, scared, worried, and perform tentatively at best.

Thus, if you want maximum composure, you must learn to train yourself to focus only on the stuff in your direct control in sports. You can divide the competitive arena into two areas:

1. Things you can control: your thoughts, behaviors, performance, and reactions in both practice and competition.

2. Things beyond your control: events or persons that you cannot influence during competition and which cause you to be distracted from your real mission.

Your goal is to separate these two areas in your mind and focus only on what you can control during performance. You should ask yourself: What do I need to focus on that will help me perform my best?

The other important question to ask yourself: What things should I not give any energy to during my performance?

Your answer to these two questions will help you improve your composure in sports. You will not get as anxious or frustrated by giving energy to the stuff that is beyond your control.

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Have a Crazy Athletic Day! -Ryan "Crazy Athletic" Bishel