Distractions Flashcards
How do (and don’t) the best exercise?
They show up to their practise. They focus on exercising, how their body is working, engagement of muscles.
They don’t distract themselves long enough to get through a run or a bike ride. If I’m truly practising outside my comfort zone, everything else falls away as the practise takes max effort.
Another way to be distracted (knocked off course) is to be vulnerable to people telling me “Oh, that’s an impossible goal.” What should I do?
I’m learning how to be a professional. Don’t be distracted by amateurs. Don’t give their negativity space in my head. Don’t question my ability, my skill, or my drive because someone else can’t believe the way I do.
What is ULTRA-PRESENCE? This is how the best cope with pressure (opposite to the majority)
It’s including everything, taking in the whole crazy scene rather than creating a tunnel, and then delivering the performance.
It’s dancing with everything around me.
Recovery is as important as competing in challenges. Why?
If I am just go, go, go, then I will just be exhausted, being unable to improve and get better.
What should I fill my recovery time with?
Things that truly matter in my life (family, God, whatever that gives me meaning). This then makes my working time more purposeful and productive.
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The ability of the average man can me doubled if their situation demanded it.
How should I feel when doubt sets in?
Remind myself that God is with me. He’s brought me this far. I’ve watched myself succeed in the past. I’m clear on where I’m going. I know I can get there.
Which distractions are the most dangerous? And what should I do?
The ones I am unaware of. Be ruthless at digging them out and eliminating them.
What should I do with distractions?
First name them, so I can eliminate them. Eliminate as much as I can.
The ones I cannot, dance with them (ultra-presence)
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In our town, there’s a shitload of great athletes, and I was not one of them. They knew it. I knew it. The only thing that put me ahead was my ability to keep my future in mind and stay focused on it. I knew overtime I would catch up to and then pass all these guys who were superior athletes. Why? My declaration most likely put me on a steeper trajectory.
We were all friends, some classmates. And when I started playing pro, I remember one day they came to watch me play. Guess how they got into that stadium? They had to pay for parking, pay for tickets, pay for a program to watch their old high school chum play pro football.
And after the game, I remember this look in their eyes—a numbness, a real regret for what they could have done. That feeling I had, it wasn’t gloating. It was humbling. I wanted them all to be with me on the player’s side of the fence. But they couldn’t, because they stopped, due to a distraction, or a loss of focus, or not course correcting, or not having a Dawn, or not having anyone believe in them, or it wasn’t their dream.
What are unchecked distractions several years down the line?
Struggle. Exhaustion.
It looks like a fan instead of a player.
It looks like regret.
What are the 2 kinds of pain in the world?
The pain of discipline and the pain of regret.
You can only avoid one. Choose, O warrior. The decision is yours.
“If you tell me where you’re spending your time, I’ll tell you your future.” What is the significance of this?
Distractions have a great destructive power on life. Unless I eliminate all the ones I can and learn to dance with the ones I cannot, distractions will ruin my life.
