Mental Rehearsal is Powerful
Great golfers and surgeons go over their game, their surgical procedures, in the mind ahead of time.
I do the same thing when I am in a play or preparing for a performance.
What mental tape are you playing right now? Are you preparing for what you want?
From YOUR BEST LIFE YET by Joel Osteen:
Osteen tells the story of a little girl named Tara Holland who grew up with a dream of becoming Miss America. When she entered the Miss Florida pageant in 1994, she became the first runner-up. She tried again the following year and again was first runner-up. Tara moved to Kansas after that and in 1997 became Miss Kansas and was crowned Miss Americathat same year.
As Osteen writes, this former Miss Americacould have easily given up. Instead, she chose to rent hundreds of pageant videos and watch them multiple times, always seeing herself in the experience of receiving the crown and walking down the runway wearing it. “Another reporter asked her if she was nervous walking down the runway in front of millions of people watching on television and with the announcer singing the famous Miss Americasong. Tara’s response was interesting. ‘No, I wasn’t nervous at all,’ she said. ‘You see, I had walked down that runway thousands of times before.’”
Authentically Yours,
Laura
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