Your Prior Best – Your New Normal

Establishing A New Baseline

In my previous blog post I wrote about what a World Class Training Camp might like for you. Here’s one way Josh Waitzkin tells us we can go about doing that.

Think about you at your absolute best. And make that your new baseline.

In The Art of Learning, Josh tells us about his quest to be the best Tai Chi Push Hands martial artist in the world. His training videos are inspiring to say the least. He’d film his sparring sessions, reviewing moments when he performed a new move that was better than something he had done before. He’d study it in the finest detail until he figured out how to make that prior best his new baseline — discovering little things like the fact that his opponent was vulnerable at the moment he was blinking.

Think about the most recent film of your life – TODAY! Stop for a moment and journal your thoughts about…

Eating: __________________________________________

Exercise: ________________________________________

Sleeping: ______________________________________

Focusing: _____________________________________

Self-Talking: __________________________________

Relating: _____________________________________

What comes to mind when you think about your daily activity? Journal your thoughts and start here as the new normal of your life. Now you know what to improve!

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