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the journey -> the top | Reflections
Here's something i wrote for myself last night (it's night for me rn) that I would like to share with others. I was watching a couple of videos and had that dopamine rush that I just felt like I needed to write. I actually can't believe I wrote it. Sorry for all the typos i hope it is understandable.
Donte get complacent - what can i already do? What did i work on that now i’m good at? Those things i still have to keep practising or its no longer something i can do.
e.g free throws - i got good at them because i practised every week. I scored one in a high pressure situation so I thought i was done- that I was good. Then, my performance dropped. I wasn’t shooting them that well and i went from one of the reliable free throw shooters on the team to one of the worst on the team.
Another example - my left hand layups. I spent so long working on finishing with my left hand because i always went right that now I’m mor comfortable going left and I got down on myself for not doing better on the right.
Now I realise that I can’t be mad atmyself for it if ther is a reason and in both of these cases it wss because i stopped putting the work in. i may be able to put in the work to do my weakness put i also need to uphold my strengths.
https://youtu.be/K1QDYuHGa_I?si=mGueanfme3GwM3C5 - you gotta balance competence and confidence. You can’t have belief too far ahead of competency because thats just fantasy but you also cant have your competency dragged down by self doubt.
He also says “there’s also a built belief” that built belief for me was yesterday. I may have missed a couple of long range shots which weren’t my normal shots but I took them and and did with confidence and it felt good. The balance of that is that the belief that I’d get all my layups in probably shouldn’t have been there because it hurt me a little. It hurt me to know that I missed that many but again, I’m not allowed to feel bad about that because I didnbt practise it. The other thing was tho that I knew my free throws were bad. So I practised the day before game day. I did and it felt good. And what happened? I shot about 50%. while that is still bad the ones that I made were the ones that I had a clear mind in. the ones that I even had an ounce of self doubt in my mind or said “that didnt feel good” in my mind were never going to go in in the first place.
So use this analogy; you can’t take a step if you don’t know where the path is. Are you stepping in the right direction? Are you even sure? If you can’t see the end should you even keep going? To that, i say yes. Take that first step or take a couple. Maybe that’s all you need to get your head out of the clouds; to see clearly where you need to go, what you need to do. Maybe all you need to do is step around a puddle or jump over one. And so what if you step into that puddle? It’s not the end of the world, yes maybe your shoes get dirty but in the end that’s it. You now have that experience to analyse (not too much) and say, “ok this is what i did wrong” and “maybe i should do this before making this type of decision first”.
Some steps will be slower and more cautious because maybe you stepped in a little mud and perhaps there might be more around you and some will be faster because it’s just brick or concrete which is easy to step over.
However, don’t get too carried away with where you are going to go. Take some time to enjoy the journey you have made to put yourself in your current position but more importantly, be present for a couple of minutes to look at your spot on the path now and enjoy the view from there. The people coming back down the mountain are happy (they have also accepted that the walk; the hike is finished and it’s time for them to go home)and say it’s beautiful at the top but you havent been there yet, you’re tired from going up that steep bit, so you take a break, have a sip of water, look out into the view and enjoy it for just a few minutes. But don’t stop there, you’re not at the top.
To take yourself to the place you want to be, you gotta imagine it first and maybe it will come into view. And maybe the place changes, but the journey of steps along the way will shape your experience and that is a given in life.
So I ask you today - do you remember those steep bits, the places where you enjoyed the view for just a little, full steam ahead to the top or a little of all?
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