Now that we've talked about as an athlete you being in control of you, the next thing is, giving you some routines that can help you prepare for this ability to take one thing at a time and absorb yourself in that thing. Because what you have to do is, you have to learn to separate the different components of your life. As a student athlete you have to separate school and academics from your athletic performance.
Some of you maybe working before you go to your athletic performance. You have to separate work. But basically, we have to separate schools and work, social life and sport. We're balancing these three things. As I mentioned earlier, you got to make sure, you're where you need to be when you need to be there. When you're doing school, do school, when you're doing work, do work. When you're doing social activities, do them and when you're doing your sport, do your sport.
This is skill to take one thing at a time. We hear it all the time. When you watch athletes on TV we've got to take one game at a time. Question I have and I've spent 30 years figuring out, trying to anyway, how do we take one game at a time? How do we take one swing at a time? How do we take one moment at a time? We hear it all the time but how do you do that?
Well, we talked about that with the R's. But now, if we can get a routine that can help us have a way to funnel our energy and get ourselves so we're able to do that. So, for an athlete, we're talking about first thing I've got to do is I've got to make sure, as we've said, I'm in control of myself, so I've got to do those things before I begin my performance to get myself focused in and make sure I'm not carrying a lot of baggage that I have monkeys on my back from my personal life, from school from work, but that I want to make sure that I am here, right here, right now.
Once I'm in control of me, then I want to take care of my body, and this is where sometimes we go to the training room, we get the treatment that we need. This is where we may do our stretching; this is where we may do our light jogging. Then what we have to do is, we have to warm up our skills, we have to warm up our strokes, we have to warm up our pitches, we have to warm up our movements and after we warm those up, then we have to start practicing competing and getting ourselves ready to perform. So that's the final part of the performance, is getting ourselves and our pre-performance preparation is warming up the competition. So we go from ourselves to our body, to our skills, to competing.
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