How To Keep Your Cool

I just hung up with a guy who invested in the full year of
the Baseball Confidence Gym. As we chatted he talked about
his son, a pitcher...

"Mistakes get to him. His eyes sort of glaze over.

"Last year he gave up a HR on a change up and he was
thinking about that pitch the rest of the inning. Instead
of giving up 1 run, he gave up 4. If he can get to where
when bad things happen it's just on to the next pitch, just
forget about that last bad pitch -- he'll be great."

That is sooooooooo common. A player gets upset about
something that happened on one pitch and as a result screws
up the next several pitches.

I call it spiraling out of control. If you've read Heads-Up
Baseball you know it as running yellow and red lights.

He may be throwing one pitch physically, but mentally he's
throwing two or more.

To be as good as you can be in baseball, you must learn to
play one pitch at a time.

And the thing I love about my work is that it goes so far
beyond baseball. Dealing with adversity and stress is a
vital part of success in life.

I hung up a few minutes prior to this call with a client
who is a director at a major corporation here in Tampa. He
said they had a "major event" at their company 2 weeks ago
that has turned the place into a fire drill since then.

I simply reminded him of some of the mental skills he's
learned from me (some breathing and perspective shifting)
and he said, "Oh, yes, they've helped me stay above the
fire. I'm actually handling it fine."

That's what a player must be able to do. That's what a man
needs to do when he's done playing baseball. He must be
able to keep his cool when all those around him are losing
theirs.

That's a natural ability for some. But those people are
rare.

That's a learned ability for the rest of us.

The beauty is now you can choose if you want to simply wait
until you pile up enough failures to learn how to deal with it,
or if you want to use the latest, most powerful mental tools available to
dramatically speed up your learning curve.

The guy that just invested in his son did more than just
help him be a better baseball player. He's helping him be a
better man.

How do YOU handle adversity? What happens to you
physically? Emotionally?

Having the awareness of how you respond is a nice first
step toward becoming skilled at performing when the
pressure is on.

Stay Focused,

Dr. Tom
Dr. Tom Hanson

p.s. The price on the Baseball Confidence Gym is going up
tomorrow. I've been in start up mode pricing and now that
this is off the ground and humming I'll move to my real
pricing.

Good news: once you start at one price and stay a member
you'll never have to pay a higher price. So if you're on
the fence I'd get off it and take advantage of the goodies
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