Mental Toughness
"Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory."
I have been working with a high school baseball pitcher with a rocket for an arm but the nerves of a worm...well that is the way he put it... Yes, he could be pro material... Yes he could bring the heat and make batters cringe in the batters box...
So I say...
"Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms
of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of
your way."
The theory is that mental toughness is an important and integral part of success and positive outcomes in pretty much everything we do in life...
Some of the key characteristics of mental toughness can and do relate to:
consistency in all you set out to do
desire to be better than your present and past self
focus on that which you want to do next and ways to get you there
winning attitude when overcoming setbacks,
resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life and concentration. of a genuine effort to receive what is being communicated...
PRACTICE: Becoming mentally tough does not happen overnight. To become mentally tough one must experience a wide-range of situations that are both positive and negative. However, the fastest way to get genuine mental toughness is to work on the above key characteristics until they are ingrained and come natural to you
APPLICATION: We are all performers when it gets right down to it... A performer needs to practice what they have learned. Thus, any skills that are taught must be practiced. Overtime individuals become mentally tough. And when you have a mental edge, nothing can stop you.
The baseball players, Ichiro and Matsui would have never crossed the ocean to play in the Major Leagues if it wasn't for Nomo and his mental toughness when most of Japan told him he could never make it in the big leagues... He proved them wrong in two leagues and Japan baseball players are mentally stronger from the core because of it... We all have the potential to do what we want. You have to pick a cause you won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate your big ideas over and over again in every encounter you have with your positive and negative self and overcome until it is all positive.
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
Robert Scott is an Exercise and Sport Sciences/ Sport Psychology Specialist.
University Professor at University in Osaka, Japan
Master/PhD. Courses: Sport Philosophy, Psychology, Pedagogy and Physiology
Ex-Professional Athlete--
Health Specialist-- Motivational Speaker and Trainer to Professional and Olympic Athletes and to the Masses.
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