Woah, that winning feelin

Bring back that winning feelin

Cause it’s gone,gone,gone wooooooh

– with apologies to the Righteous Brothers

As a baseball guy, I like to watch other sports for tips on baseball coaching, mental toughness, and confidence.

I watched Apollo Ono win the 500m short track speed skating gold in the last Winter Olympics.

I could see the electricity rocket through his system after he crossed the line. Fists clenched, arm muscles fired, and a primal yell erupting from just above that ridiculous patch of hair on his chin.

We can only imagine what that winning feelin’ is like.

But you know, that’s not so bad.

Our imagination is extremely powerful.

I’ll bet if I said I’d give you a million bucks if you could right now generate the emotion he felt at that moment you could get pretty close.

How would you do it?

You’d stand up, jump up and down a few times, clench your fists, fire all the muscles in your arms and legs, and let loose a primal yell.

At the same time you’d visualize your winning the million dollars, or cashing in huge on some stock deal, or getting a date with Paris Hilton (or whatever would really set you off).

Keep doing these things — I mean for real doing them, no holds barred — for one minute and you’d be pretty close, don’t you agree? You’d certainly be pumped up, you’d certainly be excited.

Would you like to feel that way? Then do what I prescribed above.