People who tell themselves they are not allowed to make mistakes have a strong internal critic. Nothing is ever good enough. They can always do better. Striving for perfection is a good habit, but being dissatisfied is not. You can be satisfied and at the same time strive for perfection or for better performances.
Focussing on the things that went wrong and being annoyed by it costs energy. During moments of frustration you are losing lots of energy. People that are being perfectionistic are focussing too much on the things that didn't go well instead of focussing on the things that did go well. The result is that these negative patterns are being anchored in their brains. The signal "NOT GOOD" or "NOT GOOD ENOUGH" can not give you much confidence but gives you the opposite, a feeling of insecurity. Performance anxiety is the result of this process.
You can train yourself to shift your attention from the negative to the positive. This is not fooling yourself but helping yourself to better perform. Your negative thoughts are probably realistic but they are NOT helping you. And they probably don't make you feel good about yourself, so why keep doing it?
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vrijdag 7 september 2012
zondag 2 september 2012
Keep the focus... but HOW?
During important games coaches and athletes talk about "keeping the focus", some athletes even have a twitter restriction for example, because coaches think that twittering will interfere with the athletes focus.
Actually what the athlete wants is to be concentrated during his match, in other words to be focussed on his task at the moment he wants to peak.
Being concentrated is realized by focussing your attention on your task and holding on to that for a certain period of time...
Every individual has his own way of creating the optimal circumstances in which he can focus best...
Athletes who are more extraverted already pick up lots of sensations from the outside world... When you add tensions before a game to it, this will make extraverted people even more extraverted... and to keep the system from overloading they want to seek rest and focus on their own feelings and thoughts.
Athletes who are more introverted prefer focussing on the outside world because tension will make introverted people even more introverted. A system overload can result in worrying. Worrying about failure for example. So they rather be distracted to keep them from turning inward and worrying to much.
www.prestatiepsychologie.nl
Actually what the athlete wants is to be concentrated during his match, in other words to be focussed on his task at the moment he wants to peak.
Being concentrated is realized by focussing your attention on your task and holding on to that for a certain period of time...
Every individual has his own way of creating the optimal circumstances in which he can focus best...
Athletes who are more extraverted already pick up lots of sensations from the outside world... When you add tensions before a game to it, this will make extraverted people even more extraverted... and to keep the system from overloading they want to seek rest and focus on their own feelings and thoughts.
Athletes who are more introverted prefer focussing on the outside world because tension will make introverted people even more introverted. A system overload can result in worrying. Worrying about failure for example. So they rather be distracted to keep them from turning inward and worrying to much.
www.prestatiepsychologie.nl
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