PS. My apologies to my Mother-in-Law – she’s been great all
the 26 years I’ve been married!
Be generous with your smiles. Be lavish with your praise. Be upbeat in your conversation. Let laughter fill your life. Make it your priority to always give more than you receive. When someone snaps at you, refuse to react. When someone asks you how you are, respond with, ‘Fantastic!’ When someone needs a hand, give them both your hands. When someone asks you to walk a mile, walk two. Give a tip. Grant a wish. Anticipate before being asked. Buy a gift. Share your lunch. Deliver the unexpected. Make the element of pleasant surprise a part of your daily routine. Others will bypass a thousand people in order to meet with you.
This is a page from the book ‘Smile Your Way To Success’ written by Peter Sinclair. I illustrated each piece with a cartoon.
I love playing sports(Even at 57!) and motivational sports articles are always read with interest. Here’s one I liked and drew a couple of cartoons to go with it….
Fear of Failure Holds Back Your Game by Dr.Patrick Cohn PeakSports.com
Many peaksports.com readers have requested that I write about how to deal with the fear of failure. Many athletes that come to work with me hold back their physical ability because of the fear of failure. Fear of failure can motivate athletes to work hard and improve, but it also can become debilitating when the first ball is served and it is time to play your best when it counts. Typically, highly perfectionistic athletes have this syndrome.
Their and many typical fears associated with fear of failure. Fear of embarrassment is a good example of one of the fears associated with the fear of failure. This is when you are afraid to make mistakes in front of others for fear of what they may be thinking about you or your performance. Fear of making mistakes is another example. This is when you play very tentatively or defensively because you are afraid to make mistakes, fault, or miss a shot long.
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Fear of losing is another prevalent fear for many athletes. Many players cannot stand to lose and thus become over wrought with anxiety and tension, which prevents them from playing freely and to their potential. A good example of the fear of losing is in the last set or the match you make a mental error such as trying too hard to hit the baseline and it costs you the match.
The bottom line is, no matter what the fear, you probably are scared, tight, tentative, and afraid to make mistakes if you have fear of failure. Many perfectionistic athletes want to win so badly that they cannot perform up to their potential. Here are some ideas for dealing with these obstacles and getting beyond the fear of failure.
You cannot care about what others think. Social approval is the phenomenon at the root of the fear of embarrassment. If you get embarrassed on the court, you probably are too concerned about what others think about you. You need to stop mind reading or projecting onto others what you assume they think about you. This only serves as distraction to the task of driving and causes you to think about the “what if’s”.
Focus on the ingredients of the process and the task of hitting the ball. Fear of losing or making mistakes often occurs because you focus too much on the end of the match. Thus, your mind is racing ahead to the consequences of your actions. This is also a distraction. Worrying about results is one of the major mistakes I see athletes making. You have to define what is relevant to only tennis and keep your mind immersed into those task-relevant cues.
Let go of expectations. Expectations, good or bad, are the root of self-sabotage in tennis. For example, if you are playing better then expected you will probably protect your lead and thus perform tentatively and if you are performing below your expectations you will probably become frustrated and make some poor choices. The formula I teach is to have no expectations, high self-confidence, and manageable goals. Self-confidence comes from believing in your tennis ability and focusing on the reasons to succeed rather than the excuses to fail.
Article by Dr.Patrick Cohn PeakSports.com
There is no substitute for persistence! It cannot be supplanted by any other quality! Remember this in the beginning and it will hearten you when the going may seem difficult and slow. Those who have cultivated the habit of persistence seem to enjoy insurance against failure. No matter how many times they are defeated, they finally arrive up near the top of the ladder. Sometimes it appears there is a hidden guide whose duty is to test people through all sorts of discouraging experiences. Those who pick themselves up after defeat and keep on trying arrive; and the world cries, “Bravo! I knew you could do it!” The hidden guide lets no one enjoy great achievement without passing the persistence test. Those who can’t take it simply do not make the grade.. Those who can “take it” are bountifully rewarded for their persistence. They receive, as their compensation, whatever goal they are pursuing.
Think and grow rich inspired me to become a cartoonist and it’s contents kept me going when the going got tough! I’m a Think And Grow Rich fan! Think and grow rich to the day I die!
You might have a stack of stuff like myself that needs sorting out! Most self-help writers, including the most popular ones, will freely admit that even their best ideas only work for about five percent of their readers. Why? Because they are one-size-fits-all remedies that either don’t fit your situation or aren’t easily put into action. 
As a 23 year veteran of the personal development field, I’ve seen self help material come and go. Most of them claim you have unlimited power and can create anything you consciously want — all you have to do is use the expert’s techniques. That’s a nice theory, but it probably doesn’t match your day-to-day experience, does it?
Recognize that there are what I call “unseen forces” at work – parts of your unconscious that work like the director of a movie, planning for you, filtering, coaching, shaping your daily experiences (and the results you get from self help techniques) to help you fulfill your life purpose.
We all come to the table with different “life purposes” to fulfill. You can get far better results from how-to and self-help information if you customize it to fit your life, business, or some other specific situation. If you feel like an idea or technique doesn’t feel right to you or isn’t working, trust your intuition and modify or discard it.
Don’t base your self-help efforts on the ideas of a single book, report or expert. Sample a variety of methods. Find elements that work together and work well for you. Rather than pushing yourself to follow someone else’s path, find comfort in the knowledge that you came here to carve out your own unique path to success.
Good+Fast = Expensive Choose this and I’ll postpone every other project on my drawing board, my round of golf or give up my footy match ticket and work day and night to get your job done. It WILL NOT BE CHEAP though!
Good+Cheap = Slow Choose good and cheap and I’ll still do a great job at a discounted price. But you’ll have to be patient while I fit you in after my higher paying clients, updating my web site, going down the gym, my footy matches, rounds of golf and liquid lunches!
Fast+Cheap = Inferior Choose this option at your peril. It will still be delivered on time but it will be inferior, as many corners as possible will be cut. You know the saying ‘You get what you pay for!’ The least favorable option in my opinion!
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