| What I am about to share with you is the most | | | | lose a tennis match. |
| common and potentially disastrous question any tennis | | | | The worst part about searching for what you did |
| player, coach or parent can ask - and the two | | | | wrong is that it becomes a mental habit. Your focus is |
| questions you should ask instead. | | | | always looking for the "wrong". Ultimately your |
| First, here's a basic understanding of the subconscious | | | | subconscious becomes programmed to repeat your |
| mind. The subconscious mind accepts whatever is | | | | failures - automatically. |
| delivered to it. It has no ability to reject ideas or | | | | How do you change it? Ask the two questions that I |
| information. What you think and say becomes the | | | | encourage every tennis player to consistently ask |
| programming from which your subconscious operates | | | | themselves - "What did I do right?" and "How can I |
| from. It runs on the fuel YOU give it. | | | | improve...?" |
| One challenge though... | | | | "To play better tennis you must think better thoughts, |
| Too often the subconscious receives awful | | | | regardless of circumstances. This is the art of |
| instructions. As a result, the tennis you are currently | | | | becoming non - judgemental." |
| playing is based on the programming contained within | | | | Challenge yourself the next time you make an error to |
| your subconscious mind. | | | | answer the 2 questions that will program your |
| Any person knows that you cannot play great tennis | | | | subconscious for "Automatic Success". It is easy to |
| with poor instruction from a coach. What happens | | | | focus on results and circumstances. You must learn to |
| when the poor instruction comes from your own | | | | think hard and look for what you did right. |
| mind? | | | | The very shot you missed is one you have probably |
| The most commonly asked question after a mistake | | | | made a thousand times. There's no need for |
| or a loss (from players - and dare I say even some | | | | reprimands over one error when you contain the |
| coaches and parents) is "What did you do wrong?" or | | | | greatest computer the world has ever known |
| "What happened?" Have you noticed that nobody | | | | between your two ears. Your subconscious will do |
| ever asks, "What happened?" after you win. The | | | | what you ask it to do. Your job is to program it with |
| answer to "What did you do wrong" creates a mental | | | | the "right" stuff before you infect it with a virus that |
| picture or re-run of the errors performed to the point | | | | could shutdown your game. |
| where the mind can only see how to make an error or | | | | |