Oh Come On! That's Not Cricket!

We spent all afternoon and the early evening at a cricket match today...as my brother-in-law needed 32 runs to beat the record for most runs ever scored for his cricket club.

He has been freely scoring runs all season long...and only last week he got a 68 in double-quick time.

All of the family turned out to watch him get the record in the last home game of the season.

You can guess what happened next...

He only got 11 runs!

Still...luckily he has two away games left to get the record.

But...his score was one of the lowest he had achieved during the entire season.

He was the first person to admit that he couldn't quite get into the 'swing of it' today for some reason.

Well...I KNOW the reason.

He 'psyched' himself out of it because he felt under pressure to perform as everyone had turned up especially to share his 'big moment'.

I bet that it's probably happened to you in some form in the past, hasn't it?

It just goes to show how what we think determines whether we succeed at something or not.

What if nobody had turned up...would my brother-in-law have beaten the record?

What if the record was hundreds away...would he have scored more today?

Or...perhaps if he had only need eleven runs...would he have scored less today?

Who knows...but we can certainly agree that had the circumstances been different...he almost certainly would have scored a different amount of runs.

Makes you think, doesn't it...about how powerful our minds really are...and how our thoughts can change our outcomes...despite nothing being different in the 'real' world?

Are YOUR thoughts determining what happens to YOU in that way too?

Posted by vurnumg