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Your Judgments Come from Your Expectations
Typically, your judgment of whether something is good or bad comes from your expectations. This is especially true when shooting a tournament.Under emotional pressure, people tend to revert to past negative memories and associations if they don’t affirmatively decide that they want to store their current activities, emotions, and memories more positively.You are what you repeatedly do and you become what you remember. ... Read more…
Testimonial: "When you are a beginner everyone is an expert"
When you are a beginner, everyone is an expert. I just had to share this testimonial from Stephen with all of you: I bought a sporting shotgun back in February of this year to learn to shoot skeet, and the progression would then be on to sporting clays. It was the first time I had shot a shotgun in nearly 40 years. As a new shooter, it seemed to me that almost everyone I met was an expert at sporting clays, (because no... Read more…
Humans have a 3:1 Negativity Bias
Psychological research has shown that humans have a 3:1 negativity bias as our default setting in storing memories. The brain naturally stores negative memories faster and stronger than positive ones.Neuroscience and evolution give us a simple explanation. It was much more important to remember danger and threats long ago than to remember positive or happy incidents. If we remember the snake and the hot stove, we are m... Read more…
Become Present with your Senses
Through an awareness of your senses, your goal is to become present with your senses before you close the gun and call “pull.”By trial and error in practice, you determine which senses you as an individual can count on when everything is on the line. It could be seeing, feeling, or visualizing - anything but thinking mechanical swing thoughts.What do we mean by sensory awareness? We mean awareness related to the five s... Read more…
Smiling Relaxes Tension!
Smiling relaxes tension in your jaw!Smiling with your shoulders back and stand-up posture releases DHEA into your system which is a good thing for performance.The idea is simple and powerful. When you’re present to something you can feel, hear, visualize, smell, or taste, you disengage the language center of the brain and engage the other brainwave states that control motor movement.If you are talking to yourself, you ... Read more…
