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Paying Attention to Your Successes
We’ve learned that, in building a good mental game, you have to look at things for what they really are.Our brains are predisposed to not give successes nearly as much thought or emotion as we do failures. And it’s a real problem. It’s a real thing that you have to face.Once you understand it, once you understand how we’re predisposed to always give more thought and emotion to poor performances and the things that we d... Read more…
What Our Experience Has Taught Us
In our travels shooting, coaching, and speaking about our passion, we’re still amazed at the perceptions that each shooter brings to what they do when they shoot a shotgun.We’ve spent most of the last few decades confused, constantly searching for a deeper understanding of how talent and skill is really developed, and that definition has changed several times in our lives so far. No doubt it will change again a few mor... Read more…
Being Honest with Your Score
You can’t run away from the score, but your ability to admit what the score is and admit the situation you’re in is huge.Controlling doubt and fear is also huge because if you can admit the fact that you’re only down two going into the last station and let that in, you’re ahead.Don’t try not to think about it because the harder you try to not think about it, the more you’re going to think about it.But you can let that ... Read more…
Shooting "Bling"
If I could find ten people that would give me a million dollars to have a AA game in sporting clays overnight, I’d make them all drink a pint of goat’s blood and then leave town with their money. They would be too sick for two days to find me, and I’d be gone by that time.But you know as well as I do about what I call “shooting bling.” There are people out there that have the latest bling, thinking that they’re going t... Read more…
Creating Concepts
When will you be willing to fully embrace the concept of breakpoint and being early? It is a choice.When will you be willing to fully embrace the concept of subconscious lead and stop looking at the barrel? There’s a choice.When will you be willing to not be afraid to play really far out in front of the target? All of these are concepts.They are all concepts that we’ve gone over. You know they work, but each one of you... Read more…
