For Pitching, Hitting, Everything: A Mental Game “Secret” Revealed
Here’s from today’s St. Pete Times (AP):
[Cardinals WR] Larrry Fitzgerald isn’t going to lie: He has pictured himself making that defining catch on Sunday.
“That would be great to have that kind of impact in the biggest game of my life. That’d be a phenomenal accomplishment,” he said.
“But I visualize myself always making plays. I sit around and daydream, making that tough catch on third and 2. I’m always visualizing.
“A lot of times it comes true for me.”
[and later...]
“Your Michael Jordans, your Magic Johnsons, the guys who want the ball in their hands when it’s time,” he said.
“You see a lot of guys who don’t want the pressure on them.
But look at the pressure as a privilege.”
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Pressure as a privilege.
That’s a cool and potentially very helpful way to think.
Reminds me of when Jeter told me “pressure” was fun. “It’s all just like Little League,” he said.
Yet just shifting your mindset like that isn’t often that easy.
The best way I’ve found to make a major shift in your thinking (from, say, pressure to fun or must-be-perfect to playing with passion and understanding or I’m no good to I’m unstoppable is through tapping.
In the next two days I’ll announce the time of my complimentary teleseminar on tapping.
I’ve had a lot of great questions, well over 100, so far.
But I need yours.
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Great Offer
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For a limited time I’ll give you a recording of a basic intro to tapping class if you’ll ask me a question.
Don’t ask what tapping is, though, please. I’ll tell you.
Forget about tapping and ask me about your toughest mental game challenge.
What would you like to be able to do that you can’t do right now?
What would you like to learn how to do?
Go here and ask and I’ll send you the recording.
You can ask a second question if you have a good one.
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Thank you,
Tom
Tom Hanson, Ph.D.
p.s. Visualize yourself doing great things “all the time.”
And pay this email forward, please.
www.BaseballConfidence.com
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I just got back from an injury and all I can think about when I am on the mound. How can I get away from thinking about my injury and just focus on piþching