If you play the stock market, what is your real record?
Do you sometimes make decisions that come back to haunt you?
Do you get frustrated?
Beat yourself up?
Ask, "How could I be so stupid?"
Get stressed out?
I've sure been there.
And I've learned to deal with my boo boos.
I've learned a lot from baseball!
I was watching a baseball game on TV and the announcers
were talking about a young player in a slump.
He was having a bad time at the plate and making too many
errors in the field as well.
They talked about what a player has to do to deal with this kind
of situation.
And that it's a fact of life that "slumps happen."
To everybody, every now and then.
They suggested that baseball, more than any other sport,
is a game of failures!
Where else, they pondered can you fail 70 % of the time and
still be a superstar?
A hitter with a 300 lifetime average is almost guaranteed to
make it into the hall of fame.
A pitcher with an ERA under 4 is a star!
He gives up less than 4 runs for every 9 innings pitched.
A star!
In a sport where many games are won (and lost)
with less than 4 runs scored.
By both teams combined!
Baseball players have to learn to accept the slump as a part of
life.
It happens to everybody every now and then.
A young player especially, is in danger of losing his self
confidence.
He has to believe!
If he's playing major league baseball, it isn't a fluke!
Somebody, somewhere, watched him play.
And believed in him.
Believed strongly enough to see that he got a shot at the
majors.
He has to have faith in himself.
To believe that he belongs.
To believe that if he works hard at the fundamentals:
At his mental attitude:
At his focus:
The slump will pass.
Just as it has passed before.
Just as it has past for others.
Self confidence.
Belief in self.
Determination.
The willingness to do what ever is necessary.
And above all:
Perseverance.
There are no problems!
"We are all sometimes faced with incredible opportunities,
brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." (Author
Unknown)
Go forth and come first!
Len McNally