Having a net with @Tom Naish today. After my convocation with @Rob Ferley am lookign to be more disciplined with planning my sessions here's my plan for today. 20 min - Face some throws in a more controlled environment so I can feel my trigger movement and whether it's repeatable as I've made a slight tweak here recently. Goal one - with disciplined focus be aware of how wide and low my stance is Goal two - Feel the extent of my weight transfer into the ball 20 min - match scenario as if I'm opening in the weekend. Also taking from an interview I saw of Micheal Phelps I'm going to practice things going wrong e.g. being 0 from 12 and then how do I train my mind under pressure 10 min - Play, trust subconscious do whatever it wants Bowling 20 min - forget about outcome feel the extent of the stability of my back foot contact 20 min - in Scenario I will write my debrief on the session later

Why as a batsman you are choosing to be in bad form. When I was 14 I broke records scoring 4 hundreds in 5 games, I thought my career was taking off. But then it changed. The next week two first ball ducks in a row. In the weeks that followed I scored low score after low score. It felt like every half chance was caught, every decision was bad, and I seemed to always get the best balls. A month earlier everything I touched turned to gold - Every shot went in the gap, bowlers bowled to my strength and if I did edge it, it was dropped. I believed this was just luck. But then I read the courage to be disliked applied it to my knowledge of cricket. It all changed. I had a mental reframe that changed my batting. Better timing, faster reactions, more runs. Regardless of my previous score. It stems from Alderian philosophy. Your actions stem from the direction you aim, not the story behind you. Your thinking - how does this relate to batting. See, I realised I wasn’t perceiving reality. I wasn’t getting better balls, I wasn’t getting worse decisions, I wasn’t getting caught more. These things were happening because of me. My contact point was earlier → edges carry → balls seem better I wasn’t committing to the shot → less power → catches get caught more I wasn’t tracking the ball → less margin for error against movements → more LBWs. To me this was form. But remember. Your actions stem from the direction you aim, not the story behind you. It was tough to accept but I was choosing bad form. I was too scored to accept that I wasn’t good enough. So I said ‘it’s just form’ it will come back. As soon as I realised that in fact it wasn’t form my mindset, game plan and execution was poor. I had clarity about what I needed to work on. And rather than blaming form, I began to work hard. Runs came back, I scored my hundreds and I dominated the leaderboards again. To do this you need to detach from outcomes. I teach this in my free 3 step focus PDF and free Skool community

So in the week I played a friendly match - a couple of decent bowlers, a couple not so decent. I ended up scoring 100. I felt like my all round inner game was the worst it’s been. So much I needed to work on and batting time in the middle allowed me to identify these problems. The 3 main ones were; timing of the cue word, pre meditation and the transfer of energy from self 1 - self 2. In the league yesterday I can take some big wins. As the bowler ran in, some premeditations came into mind and I simply acknowledged them and moved on. My cue word was then said much later than in the week, allowing myself to block out self 1 along with its premeditations. And in dry periods as well as drinks breaks - I made a conscious effort to gains energy from self one which helps my fluidity massively. This resulted in a relatively comfortable 73. Not the 100 / winning knock I wanted but big wins to take into next week! P.s TRUST in the inner game is key.