Falling Short of Your Potential
We have all fallen short of fulfilling our potential. Regardless of how successful you've been, at some time during your career, you've been frustrated because you know you haven't bowled up to you potential. You know you have the talent to bowl at a higher level, and you've done everything imaginable to unleash your talent.
You have set goals and outworked you teammates and competitors. You're driven and have the passion and the desire to be great. You get "locked in" for short periods or maybe even for extended periods, but you can't sustain that momentum. You constantly tweak your bowling game - but at the end of the day (or the year), the results are the same. You've seen other bowlers with less talent excel. They seem to get all the breaks and all the accolades. It's as if your foot is on the gas and you're revving your engine - but it feels like the parking brake is on. How do you release it?
The process is not as daunting as you might imagine. You won't even need to make any major changes - only a slight shift in your approach.
You've been successful because 95 to 98 percent of your behavior has been correct. Those skills go you where you are today. It's the behaviors that fall into the remaining 2 to 5 percent that have placed a false ceiling on your talent, thus capping your success. It is only the small percent of your behaviors that needs to be identified and addressed.
We're not talking about making major changes. You don't need a complete makeover. What I'm suggesting is that you make minor changes MENTALLY, much like you do when you are tweaking your swing, footwork, etc. It's these minor changes that can make a major difference in your results.
Make a small mental change to Win the Day!