Mind · Pressure
Pressure + controllables
The short version
Pressure feels less heavy when your attention goes to what you can control: preparation, effort, your next action.
The full version
Where pressure pulls attention
Under pressure, attention tends to drift to the result, the score, the opponent, what people think, or what already went wrong. None of those are things you can act on right now.
Bring it back to controllables
Controllable actions include your preparation, effort, decisions, routine, a single technique cue, and your next action. Shifting attention back to one of those gives you something useful to do with the nerves.
Make it a routine
A short, repeatable routine — a breath, a cue, a first action — makes this easier when it counts. That's exactly what MIND // PERFORMANCE practises.
What actually matters
Name what you control, prepare it, then commit to the next action. Let the scoreboard look after itself.
Key takeaways
- 01Pressure pulls attention to outcomes
- 02Focus on what you control
- 03Routines make it easier
- 04Next action, not the scoreboard
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