What are your Beliefs? What is holding you back from achieving Top Performance?
An excellent exercise to increase your awareness of your thoughts is to simply, CYT: "Catch Your Thoughts" or "Catch Yourself Thinking." Have a go right now. What are you thinking? Has your consciousness rambled off the track? Are they forceful, positively empowered thoughts or are you putting yourself down? Simply just become aware. We can't begin to change our thoughts until we know what they are!
A great way to do that is to put post it notes with the letters CYT in places you'll see all of the time to help you catch your thoughts. You might put one in your coaching bag, your bedroom, loo, diary, wallet, - anywhere is fine! Just do it! This simple strategy is so potent and yet extremely simple.
One of my athletes put "CYT" on the dashboard in his automobile and his initials happened to be CT. When one of his competitors asked what the CYT sticker stood for, he answered with his name and a made up a middle name, not needing his buddy to understand his secret weapon! "Yon" his made up middle name became his nick name when he let me know that story!
What words do you choose to feed your mind with?
I might suggest spending a week doing the CYT exercise. What do you are saying to oneself? What other negative statements are you picking up at home or training? For example, a fellow athlete might plant a seed of doubt in your mind's eye, someone may put you down and you could even realize that you are the greatest critic of you!
When I ask professional athletes to do this, I regularly get one or two pages! And my reply to that is "Awesome!" That's because they're already half way to becoming more positive and believing in themselves as they became conscious of what they are asserting. It is also worth asking your Mum or Dad or your coach what they hear you asserting. Often they won't hear you but they know from your body language what it might be! It is only when we are aware of what we are saying or taking on from others that we will be able to start to change and become the top athlete we dream to be.
An excellent exercise to increase your awareness of your thoughts is to simply, CYT: "Catch Your Thoughts" or "Catch Yourself Thinking." Have a go right now. What are you thinking? Has your consciousness rambled off the track? Are they forceful, positively empowered thoughts or are you putting yourself down? Simply just become aware. We can't begin to change our thoughts until we know what they are!
A great way to do that is to put post it notes with the letters CYT in places you'll see all of the time to help you catch your thoughts. You might put one in your coaching bag, your bedroom, loo, diary, wallet, - anywhere is fine! Just do it! This simple strategy is so potent and yet extremely simple.
One of my athletes put "CYT" on the dashboard in his automobile and his initials happened to be CT. When one of his competitors asked what the CYT sticker stood for, he answered with his name and a made up a middle name, not needing his buddy to understand his secret weapon! "Yon" his made up middle name became his nick name when he let me know that story!
What words do you choose to feed your mind with?
I might suggest spending a week doing the CYT exercise. What do you are saying to oneself? What other negative statements are you picking up at home or training? For example, a fellow athlete might plant a seed of doubt in your mind's eye, someone may put you down and you could even realize that you are the greatest critic of you!
When I ask professional athletes to do this, I regularly get one or two pages! And my reply to that is "Awesome!" That's because they're already half way to becoming more positive and believing in themselves as they became conscious of what they are asserting. It is also worth asking your Mum or Dad or your coach what they hear you asserting. Often they won't hear you but they know from your body language what it might be! It is only when we are aware of what we are saying or taking on from others that we will be able to start to change and become the top athlete we dream to be.
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