Today I have a short quote from Gary Player's book Don't Choke. All of us have problems dealing with pressure, and this particular quote addresses the problems that come when you're in a position to do something for the first time.
It's from the first bankruptcy, where he talks about his first fundamental victory within the 1959 Open at Muirfield. He became manner lower back from the lead and completed early. He thought he wished a 4 at the very last hollow to win however took a six. It devastated him; he concept he'd misplaced so he went lower back to his resort, handiest to get a phone name from the path when the rest of the field completed to inform him he had in truth received. The climate was so awful that his universal score was too low for the sector to healthy.
Breaking via for the first time brings with it an entire one of a kind set of pressures. I understood the stress of Major championship golf. A yr earlier than Muirfield, I had finished 2nd inside the US Open, and I'd had top-ten finishes inside the Open in 1958 and the Masters in 1959. But this become new in terms of handling the pressure of trying to grow to be a Major championship winner for the primary time in my career.
It's a case of dealing with the nerves of realizing a dream for the first time. That can be a major obstacle when you want something so badly and have worked all your life to be at that point. The secret is to focus not on the pressure of the situation but rather on the blessing of being in a position to go for your dream. And often, at the moment when it looks as if that dream has fallen to pieces right in front of your eyes, that' s when the phone call comes. [p21] I know that sounds terribly simple. It is, and it's very hard to do. But the point is that many of the most important things we need to learn are also the simplest things. Often our struggles come because we believe that we need to do something complicated in order to succeed... when we really just need to adjust our perspective on things to regain our mental and emotional balance.
Focus at the opportunity instead of the mission. It's a simple concept that breeds gratitude... And we ought to in no way underestimate the electricity of gratitude.
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