By Andy Murphy
Press quotes:
London Mayor Boris Johnson – What was that? That was diabolical,’
One fan said: ‘At this rate, Capello (the manager) will be looking for a new job in the morning. It’s rubbish. Rooney couldn’t trap a bag of cement.
‘And the team looks like it just doesn’t care. There’s no energy. 0-0 is just terrible.’
Nice to see your own fans booing you. That’s what loyal support is, – Wayne Rooney (England striker)
All of you die hard world-cup football addicts out there, you can relax and understand that this is only a perspective … it is time to open your mind to another view of the world.
Like any problem,/ people only ever see the symptoms; people getting constantly sick from too much stress at work, a performer drunk on and off stage because of unmanageable nervousness, the list goes on. However, to fix the issue we have to get to the root cause-change the beliefs and perspectives.
With England they don’t belief they can win, the fans don’t believe they can win, and the press remind everyone every day that they can’t win. Everyone is focusing on the specific mistakes and only remembers the unsuccessful times from the past.
My belief is that you either support your team or you don’t. When you work with professional athletes, performers, or even someone becoming a non smoker or someone looking to lose weight, there is no place for second guessing. Negative thoughts directly affect your confidence, your belief about yourself or your opponent and your outcome. In addition, there is no place for being anxious or nervous, otherwise your mind is not in the perfect winning mind set- “I don’t want to lose”, “I don’t want to let this corner kick in“ “I don’t want to make the whole of England angry and get bad press“.
If you were focusing on those things, how would you feel?
5 key points for athletes & life success
1 Beliefs aren’t real. That is a fact. A belief is something from your past experiences that you have decided you trust is real,but it isn’t. The only belief you should have is you can belief anything you want to. As I always say, people once believed the earth was flat. If you change your belief about what is possible it will change your motivation, passion and drive to get that result. Make sense?
2 Understand that you have a filter system in your brain which literally has a belief filter in it. Millions of bits of information come in through your 5 senses every second. Someone’s outside story is determined by their belief program that is running on their inside.
3 What is the quantum mind set? t is just a belief, and it doesn’t even matter if quantum physics is real or not.- if you take on and hold the belief that you create everything in your life and you take 100% responsibility for your outcomes, then you have to adopt the new belief.
4 The power of words. “Don’t mess this up”; “don’t let this goal in”. The unconscious mind doesn’t process a negation. What does that mean? Don’t think of a big blue elephant? Don’t think of England messing this up? Don’t think of England lifting the World Cup high above their heads and the entire crowd cheering with passion. And absolutely don’t think about how amazing it would feel and all the headlines in the press congratulating them! I am kidding of course on the last one, that is what you should think!
So then you have to ask yourself “fans”, what would happen if you just kept believing and got behind them again? What if the press only supported England? There is always a choice. There are always 2 sides to a coin, right?
It is the same in life. If you give yourself as many options as you can, your unconscious mind will always choose the one that excites it the most. If your belief is that you expect to fail then you are right and you get what you expect! You have to be strong in your decision.
Maybe England can win? Maybe not? Maybe you can keep working in a job that bores you or what else in life could you do that excites you? At the end of the day the choice is yours? And it is same with the England players and fans. Whatever you expect to get out of life, you probably will….
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