Upward and Downward Spirals
“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can easily become a self fulfilling prophecy.” Tony Robbins
I love watching basketball games. It seems at times that a player gets on roll and every time they touch the ball they score. Everything seems to go in. Even the worst off-balance shot goes in.
Then there are nights when the player can go 0 for 10. It makes no difference whether the player is right under the basket they can not score even if their life depended on it. The ball will just not go in.
As the example shows, it is easy to get on an upward spiral as it is on the downward one. So success is to minimize the downward spiral. The key is to recognize you are on one and to say to yourself that nothing last forever and that you just need to keep doing what you have been doing consistently. Your luck will change and eventually you will start the upward spiral.
Unfortunately, as you can see it in most athletes, most players dwell on the failure so much that they just become the self fulfilling prophecy. You change the prophecy by believing that soon the upward spiral will start and controlling the next shot.
Today's question is:
"Do you recognize when you are on a downward spiral?"
“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can easily become a self fulfilling prophecy.” Tony Robbins
I love watching basketball games. It seems at times that a player gets on roll and every time they touch the ball they score. Everything seems to go in. Even the worst off-balance shot goes in.
Then there are nights when the player can go 0 for 10. It makes no difference whether the player is right under the basket they can not score even if their life depended on it. The ball will just not go in.
As the example shows, it is easy to get on an upward spiral as it is on the downward one. So success is to minimize the downward spiral. The key is to recognize you are on one and to say to yourself that nothing last forever and that you just need to keep doing what you have been doing consistently. Your luck will change and eventually you will start the upward spiral.
Unfortunately, as you can see it in most athletes, most players dwell on the failure so much that they just become the self fulfilling prophecy. You change the prophecy by believing that soon the upward spiral will start and controlling the next shot.
Today's question is:
"Do you recognize when you are on a downward spiral?"
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