SOS

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  Becoming Better –> How To Make Little Steps… Forward

  We get stuck in “comfortable” ruts. They might be safer than pushing forward. For a time, they might be all we can handle. And possibly, they might even be enough—but what happens when that little voice inside you starts asking for something a little bit better? If you are in a non-safe position, then becoming…

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  Training Your Self Care

  As a lifeguard back in the 1980´s and 1990’s, I was trained to prevent accidents as it was so much easier than doing rescues. Learning to see risks before something happens is key to keeping yourself safe. There are dangers in this world. Plus it is always rather shocking when you realize that you are…

• How Much Did You Lose

  After a very long break, some athletes are realizing just how much conditioning they have lost. For those athletes starting back into training, all those months of not being able to train ‘normally’ have definitely taken a toll. It is a very harsh new reality. While seeing the first month’s results of the Challenge, I…

• SOS – Self Oasis Sequence

  When a client is dealing with performance anxiety, stressed out moments and those times when everything just feels wrong, I have found a few things to be effective…   Do your  Breathing A B C’s while touching the roof of your mouth with the tip of your tongue and holding a calm image in your…

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  Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz (1960) –> Do Not Tolerate

  Do not tolerate for a minute the idea that you are prohibited from any achievement by the absence of in-born talent or ability. This is a lie of the grandest order, an excuse of the saddest kind. – Maxwell MALTZ in Psycho-Cybernetics 1960 Every author combines resources, experience and ability to share ideas in unique…

• Lifeguard

  When you are performing, you need to become your own lifeguard. You need to know what to do, when to do it and how to keep yourself safe while doing it. You keep training the steps, over and over again, so when you are called up, you can do the necessary performance without any guesswork…

• IF / THEN ==> Procrastination

  My heart is saying I don’t understand or accept or desire it enough to do it now. My brain just needs to figure out why. Stop looking for another reason more complex than fearing the truth.

• IF/ THEN ==> Bickering

  Actually I was going to entitle this post dealing with idiots/jerks, but then reconsidered 😉

• Stop feeding each others’ internal hurricanes

  Everyday, humankind is constantly challenged. Hatred is relearned. Violence spirals like hurricanes from the inside out. We talk about goals and action plans but our real daily choice is how to react progressively to all those jagged edges pushing us off course.  Reacting with more hatred, more violence, more sadness… is not progress for anyone…

• IF/ THEN ==> Anxiety

  First competitions are coming up for the new archers. While I have been competing for decades and absolutely love the buzz …some newbies and some veterans alike are not so inclined. One specific feeling word that pops up is anxiety. This is a real medical problem for some people when it leads to panic attacks,…