Johnny was feeling very anxious, in fact the poor guy was distraught. Whatever he tried he just couldn’t hit that ball, and the whizzing of the ball passing his ear nearly caused panic attacks. What could Johnny do to get out of this situation?
You see Johnny lived and breathed baseball all of his life and was now one of the highest paid players in the American leagues.
This year he just couldn’t hit that ball and Johnny knew that if he didn’t get his act together soon, he would be out. This was all he knew, his whole life was baseball, Johnny got very desperate.
Then Johnny found out as people do when they are desperate, about some guy who was great at helping people with this kind of problems. He called this guy Frank and said to him, if he could get him to hit that ball again that he would give Frank 10% of his annual income. Frank knew that, that was no small amount and agreed to take on the challenge. Frank told Johnny that he’ll come to see him in a week’s time.
You know what Frank did next? He hired the guy who was hitting the ball.
He wanted to find out exactly what this guy was doing to hit the ball. He asked him specific questions on the pitch as the guy was doing his stuff and this was what he found out:-
‘Well Frank, first I talk to myself and say ‘I am going to hit that ball’, that voice comes form this direction with this tone. Then I see myself hitting the ball and running round the pitch. Then I position my body etc.’Basically Frank found out exactly what this guy was doing in his head so that he could hit that ball. Frank questioned this guy to make this process conscious.
When Frank was confident that with what this guy was doing, that this was his strategy, he went to visit Johnny.
Johnny did some tweaking for his own personality.
Do you know Frank got at the end of the year, a big fat cheque.
Now, we all have ways that we do everything from buying shoes to what we’re going to watch on TV. These are all processes that are running in our heads without us really have known what we’re doing consciously. There are ways of how we make ourselves happy, anxious, and confident and whatever we do there is a subconscious process involved.
Some times all that is involved is finding this process and then changing it to another one that can serve us better.
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