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Act Your Way to Right Thinking
You’ve got to put yourself in the game and fail enough times, but keep trying harder and doing the things that we’ve talked about on the Coaching Hour in order to succeed.Remember: you can’t think your way to the right action. You’ve got to act your way to the right way of thinking. You can tell yourself it’s like you to hit that target until you’re blue in the face. But you can’t lie to yourself.If you hit that target... Read more…
Turning Fear into a Motivator
You can turn your fear into a motivator. That’s what I’m trying to do. Every time I come to an impasse and I know fear is there, I can feel it. I know that there’s something good getting ready to happen. There’s something good on the other side of that fear if I will let myself go on through that waterfall.You can’t overcome that fear without facing it or without doing it.You can rehearse the speech as many times as yo... Read more…
From Thinking (Behind) to Doing (Ahead)
When you’re in the subconscious mode, the anticipation circuit is projecting forward. It is anticipating what’s going to happen and it is coordinating all of your movements to bring about the action you’re about to do or that you’re in the process of doing; but the instant you begin to think, the anticipation retreats back to behind where you are.Let’s just use a nebulous number as an example. You go from 18 dots ahead... Read more…
What Are Focus Ratios?
“Focus ratios” are what we call the amount of focus a shooter puts on the target versus the amount of focus on the gun as a term of percentage. For many people, these things change. For example, you might have 98 percent on the bird and 2 percent on the gun, 95/5, or 75/25.When you are equally aware of the target and the gun, you have a 50/50 ratio, meaning that your focal point is between the target and the gun. When ... Read more…
Being in a Position to Fail
You’ve got to be willing to put yourself in a position to fail in order to succeed. And you’ve got to be willing to look at it from the standpoint of “the more times I put myself out there in a position to fail, the more opportunities I’m going to have to win because every time I fail, I want to learn something from it.”It doesn’t mean you’re not going to learn the same thing several times. But that’s experience. And e... Read more…
