Restart

Restart

It's usually a psychological problem...

Have you ever failed once? (Of course)

and being a good reader of this blog, you've followed what was advised and you worked harder and in a better way.

and you try at it again.

and you failed, a second time.

and this process keeps repeating: you try. you fail you change. you try again. you fail again. you change again.

I personally have faced this problem. After getting a medal in my first inter school competition when I was 13. I thought that this winning business was easy. Just go to a competition, do what I do during training, go home with a medal. Simple. 

Well it didn't work out that way.

My past three national inter-school competitions have ended horribly. What makes it worse, is that if I had reproduced the same score that I did the month before each of those competitions, I would have went home with at least a silver! So what's the problem here? Why couldn't I restart...

Most of us have a reason for trying to achieve things, be it self satisfaction, doing your country/school/team proud or maybe in some cases impressing that girl or guy ;) , there is always a reason. These "reasons" are usually our sources of motivation. But sometimes, they may turn into our biggest distractions. That small form of encouragement, may turn into that little extra pressure, that gives you that bit of nervousness which snowballs eventually to the lack of success. The worst part is, repeated setbacks over the same thing may eventually cause us to give up entirely on it. Demotivated? 

"That small form of encouragement, may turn into that little extra pressure, that gives you that bit of nervousness which snowballs eventually to the lack of success."

I'm not saying that having a reason for achieving something is bad. Please, reasons, goals, aims, they're all good. It's how you manage it. Things pop into our minds suddenly even with very little stimulation or reason to do so. When this happens. Failure to control them usually leads to a loss in concentration of the present. You Lose Focus. And what does that give you?

Our brains can only focus on one thing at a time. (For most of us...and I really mean most, like almost EVERYONE) Even those "multi-taskers" When you multitask, you're basically just shifting your main focus really quickly from one thing to another and back. But at any point of time, you're only focusing on ONE thing. So taking this fact. We should use it to our benefit right? See it in a positive light. If I can only focus on one thing at a time. If I focus on the right thing...then I can't focus on the distractions. Which means you'll stay focused on your goals! 

"When you multitask, you're basically just shifting your main focus really quickly from one thing to another and back. But at any point of time, you're only focusing on ONE thing. " 

So the next time your mind wanders during an important situation (especially when you're retrying something which you failed before), Start thinking about what you're supposed to be doing! Focus on that. Just keep thinking about the process which you should be doing. and nothing else.

"Start thinking about what you're supposed to be doing! Focus on that. Just keep thinking about the process which you should be doing."

With that, I'm sure your next attempt at success should be....a success! :) All the best to you! 

Always Lifting You Higher!

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