What are your Beliefs? What’s impeding you from achieving Peak Performance?
A great exercise to enhance your awareness of your thoughts is to simply, CYT: “Catch Your Thoughts” or “Catch Yourself Thinking.” Have a go at the moment. What are you thinking? Has your mind rambled off the track? Are they potent, positively charged thoughts or are you putting yourself down? Simply just become aware. We cannot begin to change our thoughts until we know what they are!
A good way to try this is to put post it notes with the letters CYT in places you will see all the time to help catch your thoughts. You could put one in your training bag, your bedroom, bathroom, diary, wallet, – anywhere is fine! Just do it! This easy methodology is so dynamic and yet incredibly simple.
One of my athletes put “CYT” on the dashboard in his automobile and his initials happened to be CT. When one of his competitors asked what the CYT sticker stood for, he answered with his name and a made up a middle name, not needing his buddy to understand his secret weapon! “Yon” his made up middle name became his nick name when he let me know that story!
What words do you decide to feed your brain with?
I would suggest spending a week doing the CYT exercise. What do you say to yourself? What other negative statements are you picking up at home or coaching? For instance, a fellow sportsman might plant a seed of doubt in your mind, somebody may put you down and you might even find that you are the best critic of you!
When I ask professional athletes to do this, I regularly get one or two pages! And my reply to that is “Awesome!” That’s because they’re already half way to becoming more positive and believing in themselves as they became conscious of what they are asserting. It is also worth asking your Mum or Dad or your coach what they hear you asserting. Often they won’t hear you but they know from your body language what it might be! It is only when we are aware of what we are saying or taking on from others that we will be able to start to change and become the top athlete we dream to be.
To get more info about how to become a professional athlete, check out Ann Quinn’s peak performance website now!
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