Don't Jump Planning to Fall...
If you prepare yourself for a jump thinking that you’ll probably fall and hurt yourself, where do you think your body will end up? Every muscle in your body is tensing in preparation to catch you falling, rather than to succeed in your jump. Your attention is on the ground, where you are expecting to end up, not forward where you should be landing. You are ready to fall, not to clear your jump. The same concept applies to any goal. If you assume you’re not going to make it, you begin to prepare to fail. You visualize failure and the reasons why you failed. You give yourself an out instead of pushing yourself harder when things don’t quite workout. You prepare to tell your friends about all the obstacles that kept you from making it, rather than focusing on your moments of small successes along he way. Your thoughts become your biggest obstacle. To beat them, you must identify and change the visual that you allow into your mind. You must practice this process of s...