How to Tell if Your Baseball Coaching Performance is a Joke
Three guys walk into a bar.
The fourth guy ducks.
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That’s not laugh-out-loud funny. But funny enough to make my point.
Most humor involves a sudden shift in perspective. The first part of any joke sets a context, perspective, or point of reference.
The punch line then comes in at a right angle, something not expected, and changes our perspective suddenly.
It create a switcharoo in our heads and instantly we see the situation differently.
For some reason, that makes us laugh.
If you want to make 2009 a season you look back at and laugh (in a positive way), you need one of these switcharoos in your head.
It is this change in perspective, or change in paradigm (defined as “prevailing mindset or way of looking at a
situation”) that creates the greatest performance improvement.
Yes, the pre-pitch routines and breathing techniques are great, but for major changes (go from last place to first place types of changes), a major paradigm shift is needed.
I’ve also referred to this as self-image: How you see yourself.
Who you see yourself to be determines how you will play.
If you see yourself as a “joke,” for example, that’s what you’ll be.
If you see yourself as a champion, you’ll play like one.
I’ve worked a lot these past two weeks with “yippers.”
People with the “yips” throwing problem.
(See www.YipsBeGone.com)
Lots of players and coaches have made great progress. It’s some of the most rewarding work of my life.
One of the major obstacles we need to overcome is their seeing themselves as having this problem.
They’ve come to identify themselves as a person with a throwing problem.
So it isn’t just a matter of clearing out the problem, we also have to clear out their new identity as someone who has this problem.
They need a paradigm shift. They certainly don’t find anything funny about the paradigm they are in.
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Here’s the Punch Line
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REGARDLESS of your current level of success, you too are in a paradigm.
You too are locked in a box of your own making that limits the amount of success you allow yourself to have.
Now I, or anyone else, can talk to you til you’re blue in the face about this and it may do some good.
But nothing I’ve done or seen in my 25 years in performance enhancement can help you make that shift to the next paradigm or next level the way tapping can.
I don’t understand why I’m not hearing more about it from my colleagues. In my experience it dominates any other single method of performance enhancement.
Plain and simple. If you want to find out what is possible for you in baseball, as a player or coach, I believe you should be tapping.
And that’s no joke.
Thank you,
Tom
Dr. Tom Hanson
www.BaseballConfidence.com
p.s. I’m in the middle of teaching a course right now on how to get the most out of tapping (and therefore yourself).
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Is this program for everyone? No.
Not now any way. But I think it is sort of like the early days of the computer. It will go from obscurity to daily usage.
You can choose to be on the front end of the wave if you want, or join in when everyone else is.
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