Keeping Your Foot on the Gas Pedal
Don’t Ever Stop Doing What has Made You Successful
Growing up, I played a lot of sports. My two favorites were baseball and basketball. And my biggest fan and advisor was my father. Dad would take me out between team practices to have me practice even more. He literally ran my butt off until the things I did were a second nature reflex.
In addition to doing physical practice, we also talked strategy, such as in what situation would I attempt to make what play.
He told me that there were two types of mistakes you could make.
The first was an error of commission, a physical mistake. That would be something like dropping a fly ball or making an errant pass to a teammate.
The second was an error of omission. That was a mental gaffe, like throwing to the wrong base or staying in the foul lane for too long and getting called for a three second violation.
He also stressed to me that games always have a momentum to them. When you get on a roll, like not missing a shot, or throwing strike after strike. You want to maintain that big mo. Once you deviate from what you are doing, the momentum can change, both quickly and dramatically. And regaining it can be hard if not impossible to do.
