Have you ever wondered why sometimes everything just goes smoothly, you just navigate past any obstacles, or maybe you don’t even pay attention to them. You’re focused on your goal, and you just effortlessly progress towards it.
I was walking my daughter to school the other day while she rode her bicycle, something she only recently mastered. As we went along, we’d come up behind other people, and she’d slow down, balancing nicely as she waited for a chance to get past. I praised her for how well she was riding, balancing expertly at very slow speed, fully in control.
While I was suitably impressed, given her relative inexperience, it was at that point that the spell was broken. She suddenly started to focus on the people and other “obstacles” and started telling herself how scary it was and that she didn’t want to bump anyone. Where before she’d just been riding and navigating past anything she came across, now all of a sudden she saw all these obstacles.
This experience reminded me (again) that as humans we perform best when we have a clear mind, when we aren’t focusing on all the hazards but just trusting that we’ll know what to do and how to do it when we need to.
We should all strive to operate with a clear mind and catch ourselves when we aren’t, so that we can fall back into our natural state and effortlessly achieve our best results.
If you’d like to talk about how coaching can help you achieve this more regularly, reach out for a conversation.
Here’s to you achieving clear-minded success.
Patrick Hickman 