How To Come Through Under Pressure – Tip #4

For most athletes, the answer to that question is “No.”

Are you the one everyone looks to for the game-winning goal or clutch score? For most athletes this just adds on more pressure, because everybody starts expecting you to be the one to save the day whenever your team is down or needing a score. Every athlete needs to know how to come through under pressure consistently.

In today’s pressure tip, you will learn that the key is not to fight the feeling in the first place.

So when it is up to you, like say, as the team’s final shooter to score for your team to win…what are you thinking at that moment?

I’ve typically heard athletes that have come to me say things like: “I have never felt so much pressure in my whole life. My legs were literally shaking and I was totally sweating and I didn’t think I could do it.”

In today’s pressure lesson, you are going to learn a powerful tool called: “It’s an AND world”

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Sandy was the captain of her soccer team. She also was the one her teammates and coach always looked to, to score the big goal when the team needed it most.

This began to make her feel pressure, because everybody started expecting her to come through making the game-winning goals.

Last season, Sandy’s team was in the finals. The game came down to a penalty shootout. Sandy’s team’s goalie blocked the other team’s penalty shot and so it was up to Sandy, as the team’s final shooter to score for her team to win.

I asked her what she was thinking at that moment…

“I have never felt so much pressure in my whole life. My legs were literally shaking and I was totally sweating. My first thoughts were, I’m going to miss and I feel so scared…and then I remembered what you taught me…it’s an AND world.

I then just kind of laughed at my feelings of nervousness and said to myself about 10 times: “Yep, I’m nervous… AND I can still do this…I’m putting the ball into the upper right corner. “

I asked her if that made the nervousness go away and she said: “No, not really, I was still nervous, but I still stuck the ball in the upper right hand corner exactly as I said I would…and we won!”

You can do this too! The next time you are feeling the pressure or the nervous, just AND it. Meaning…don’t fight the feeling…just go ahead, feel the feeling and know you CAN still perform under pressure and still play great.

Even the greatest pro athletes in the world feel nervous under pressure AND still turn in great sport performances. You can too!