Feel Great Today

How do you choose to feel today? 

Personally, I woke up tired this morning - I've been working hard at my business, with my superstar athlete clients, head coaching a  balancing the household, working out . . .blahblahblah.  Isn't it all the same really? Some version of the same story?  

Life can become monotonous, your sport can become all-consuming, it can rule you. . .

But only if you let it!

What seperates us as human beings, from the rest of the animal kingdom, is our unique ability to think and reason.  Did you know a belief is just a thought that we hold onto?  It's like a cloud floating by in the sky, thoughts are just there until we catch hold of one and say: hey that cloud looks like an elephant, then bam, it becomes a belief.  Ever notice the person beside you disagree and say 'That doesn't look like an elephant, it looks like a baby!', so certain that their point of view, their belief is the right one?

There are so many different ways to look at the same experience, the same object, the same interraction, the same memory.  As a beach volleyball player, I say it's like looking through different coloured sunglasses: when it's gloomy and grey outside, I always chose a yellow lens to brighten things up.  And when it was over-bright, my automatic choice was a darker lens.  Either way, it was I who decided which lens I'd look through.

So is the same in life: Your day today could look very much the same as the day before, and everyday for that matter, unless you decide to shift it, to look at it from a different perspective, to try on different coloured sunglasses.  You could have woken up this morning feeling tired, or sad, or disappointed, or happy, or excited or whatever.  And, if you don't like how you felt, or how you feel at any moment, it is only you who can shift it.  In the world of Sport Psychology, we call this shifting of perspective 'Reframing'.

How do you feel right now? Do you want to feel that way?  If not, reframe it.  Shift your perspective to something that excites you, that freshens up your life, that makes your feel powerful.

Today I choose to feel Great!

How about you?

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Love,

Coach Kara