I grew up playing baseball and basketball. My dad was my coach growing up, clear through high school.
And I find I myself applying many lessons I learned on the field/court as a kid in everyday life.
When I was young, my dad used to tell me, “You have what you say.”
Don’t let your words hinder your actions.
Basically, your perception of the situation becomes the reality of it. If you start to THINK you can’t do it, then you can’t do it.
Just because you don’t see how it can work out, doesn’t mean it can’t be worked out.
You have to see the good things in life, even when surrounded by the bad things.
My Dad called it having a “Positive Mental Attitude (PMA).”
It’s an attitude he has carried since I can remember. A swagger and a confidence that life will not get the best of him.
You go out and compete. You may not win every time, but you leave it all on the field. You don’t “give up.”
It’s not living outside of reality, rather, it’s like when an insurmountable problem hits you right in the face with everything it has, you get back up, look it right in the eye and give it a wink and a smirk. Because you are stronger than it can begin to imagine. And you can hit harder.
In sports, in life… You can hit harder than it hits you. Don’t let it get the best of you.
In order to get the best of a situation, you first have to BELIEVE you can.
Let your words dictate your actions.
You have what you say.
(From The Daily Stim)