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There is a famous formula in the World of sports psychology, it is this;
Performance = Potential – Interference
What can you learn from this?
The formula states that you perform better when you have less interference going on.
Now this formula is referring to the interferences of your mind. Things such as fear, doubt, worry, analysing, lack of confidence, asking negative questions, making 
assumptions.
Most of these interferences are based in the past or the future. In the moment you actually have no control over them. They are either done with and you learn from them or they have not even happened yet and you have an opportunity to change them.
In terms of staying positive, many experts are quick to recommend lots of methods you can try like positive self talk, visualisation, meditation, focusing on the positive possibilities and solutions which are all great ways of redirecting your focus in a positive direction.
However, there is another very effective way of improving your performance which you can learn from the above formula.
You can also reduce the interferences and stop doing the things that do not help.
Improving your performance doesn’t always require that you start doing something new. It can just require you to STOP doing what is not working.
What are you doing at the moment that is not working?
Too much thinking and analysing?
Trying to work out the “perfect” solution (that doesn’t exist)?
Delaying taking the first step and then putting it off and off?
Convincing yourself it is not that important so you don’t need to face it?
You can address this by writing down a “STOP” list. That is a list of all the things you are doing that are currently harming your performance and one by one, knock them off the list like an artist sculpting a masterpiece.
In fact, this is just how the great artist Pablo Picasso created his amazing sculptures. He would take a piece of rock and then chip away all the pieces he did not want until he was left with a masterpiece. He would visualise what he wanted to create and then start by chipping away everything that was not part of the picture in his mind.
What can you chip off that isn’t part of your picture?
Start today.
Inspiring you to be the best you can be,
Martin Robert Hall
Motivational Keynote Speaker, Trainer and Performance Coach based in Manchester, UK.
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