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Any Experience Can Change Your Life
Any experience, even simply going to a restaurant, can create new beliefs about how you want to live your life. I have read in many different cultural and religious texts not to take any moment in life for granted, as all experiences can be...
Fitness
You pick up the magazines each day, and you're bombarded with
health and fitness information. Advertisements and articles that
are designed to impart much needed information to the reader
about the state of fitness and health in America today,...
Keeping Faith
Direct Answers - Column for the week of June 30, 2003
Please bear with me. I desperately need advice. I dated this girl for a year, and we broke up many times because of religion. We are of two different religions, and she wanted our...
Path to Healing
It is within us to explore and draw upon our inner resources to heal. Some wounds are embedded so deeply that no amount of professional expertise can cure, much less heal.
A famous Yale surgeon says that as a surgeon, he cuts into the body,...
Why Keep A Journal
What purpose does keeping a journal serve?
Do you write down your thoughts, your innermost feelings,
the joys and the pains embedded deep in your heart ?
Does it help for you to “verbalize” in words your plans,
your promises and don’t...
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It's More Important than Batting Practice
It was a night of focus and inspiration.
On October 20, 2004, the Boston Red Sox made history.
They became baseball’s first team to win a best-of-seven post-
season series after losing the first three games.
And they did it against arch-rival New York in Yankee Stadium.
Even if you are not a sports fan, here are some lessons you can
use to turn any situation around.
When things stink and they have stunk for awhile (you lost
three in a row), the best way to turn things around is to forget
how badly you have screwed up thus far.
Apparently, the Red Sox did this. After the game, manager Terry
Francona said his team had no margin for error. They played
“inning by inning” and “pitch by pitch.”
He said they “concentrated on every play.”
This is the short course in breaking any slump.
Focus on the present.
Forget the past.
Disregard the future.
Be in the moment with all your brain cells on board. Practice
this and no slump will ever be a long one.
Centerfielder Johnny Damon exemplifies this. Prior to this
game, he was hitting a dismal .108 for the
series. Then he hit
two home runs including a grand slam.
Will anyone in all of New England remember his batting average
for the first 6 games?
The Red Sox players prepared for this game in an unusual way.
They did not take batting practice.
Instead, they watched “Miracle on Ice,” the movie about the
amazing gold medal performance of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey
team, still considered one of the most stunning upsets in sports
history.
At some point, you are ready. You know what to do.
The rest is focus and inspiration.
And that’s more important than batting practice.
Copyright 2004 by Tony Papajohn
Tony writes and speaks on success. Subscribe to his free
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About the Author
Tony Papajohn speaks and writes on success. As a minister and traveling speaker for 13 years, he taught his own unique blend of spirituality and practical wisdom. Always a student of the mind, Tony researches the principles that achievers use for continuing success. He specializes in teaching how to use the brain to tap the power of the mind.
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