Unlocking Peak Performance

What are you doing to help control your anxiety? What are you doing to slow down the game and get into the present moment? What strategy are you using to play the game one play at a time? In this episode, we will teach you three breathing techniques to practice to help you relax, focus, and live in the present moment.

What does the breath do for you? It allows you to relax and focus. It is the gateway to the present moment. It will release all the tension in your body.  You should be taking a deep breath before every pitch, before every shot, before every down. Get relaxed and focused by taking a deep breath. 

What is the number one thing you need to work on in the upcoming month? Make it your one word focus. Bring attention to this one word focus, put a plan in place, and then attack it. You will be amazed at the progress you will make by bringing attention to your one word focus.

Listen to Brian Cain teach us the lesson he learned from Dr Ken Ravizza about the importance of focusing on staying present and playing the game one play at a time.

We need to be different.  Everybody has the same goal. We need a different goal - a narrow goal. While everybody is focusing on winning championships, we will focus on what it takes to win championships. To win championships, focus on winning one play at a time, one play at a time. 

Winners Focus On Winning, Losers Focus On Winners.  Let's spend more time focusing on what it takes to win than on comparing ourselves to others. Comparison is the thief of all joy.

What is a spot at your field that you can focus on that can help bring you back to the present moment? It will help bring you back to neutral, slow the game down, and help you regain control of your focus and awareness. 

Can you create your own circle of focus so that you can help yourself lock in when you need it most? Step in to focus and then step out. Step in, and then out. 

When you are driving in a car on the highway at night, your headlights shine 200 feet. You can only see and focus on the next 200 feet. Then the next 200 feet. Then the next 200 feet. We sould focus the same in our own journey. Keep it small and focus on the present moment.

You aren't running 26 miles, you are running 1 mile, 26 times. Narrow your focus. Focus on small tasks or victories. Create small wins. Little by little, a little becomes a lot.