How to Believe Like s Professional Athlete
What are your Beliefs? What is constraining you from achieving Top Performance?
A great exercise to enhance your awareness of your thoughts is to simply, CYT: “Catch Your Thoughts” or “Catch Yourself Thinking.” Have a go at the moment. What are you thinking? Has your mind rambled off the track? Are they potent, positively charged thoughts or are you putting yourself down? Simply just become aware. We cannot begin to change our thoughts until we know what they are!
A good way to do this is to put post it notes with the letters CYT in places you will see all the time to help catch your thoughts. You may put one in your training bag, your bedroom, toilet, diary, wallet, – anywhere is fine! Just do it! This straightforward plan is so powerful and yet so simple.
One of my sportsmen put “CYT” on the dashboard in his car and his initials happened to be CT. When one of his competition asked what the CYT sticker stood for, he answered with his name and a made up a middle name, not desiring his chum to grasp his top secret weapon! “Yon” his made up middle name became his nick name when he told me that story!
What words do you decide to feed your brain 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 try this, I frequently get a few pages! And my reaction to that’s “Awesome!” That is because they are already half way to getting more positive and believing in themselves as they have become mindful of what they are pronouncing. It’s also worth asking your Mother or Father or your coach what they hear you exclaiming. Occasionally they might not hear you but they know from your body language what it could be! It is just when we are mindful of what we say or taking on from others that we are able to begin to change and become the top athlete we dream to be.
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