How good is the finger on your trigger?

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How good is the finger on your trigger?

What are your patterns of thinking and can you control your personal triggers?
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Hi there

How’s your racing being going recently?

How much do you find yourself repeating the same behaviours? If you find this happening at key moments in your racing, then how much are these repeated behaviours helping or hurting your performance? If they’re hurting your performance, then you need to do something about it to improve.

These repeated behaviours will come from standard patterns of thinking and will be triggered by your reaction to events. The more control you have over these personal triggers, then the better you’ll be at overcoming setbacks and distractions in your racing.

For example, when you’re fatigued, perhaps because of a heavy testing schedule with lots of travelling, and you don’t end up on the free practice timesheets anywhere near the position you’d expected to be in, do you tend to react in a certain and predictable way? Does the combination of fatigue and disappointment trigger you into an unhelpful state?

For the next two weeks, simply take note of how you are when under pressured conditions. Don’t change anything, just be aware.

Awareness is everything in this game. The more you’re aware, the more you can personally control how you react and therefore how you think and behave. As a racer, you already know that a system under control is a consistently fast one. That’s why we put third dampers on IndyCars back in the 90s. (Ask me about separated ride and roll control next time we speak!)

* The Mindset for Racing Finish Line *

You have a personal setup that means you think in repeatable patterns. You need to find out which patterns are helpful and which patterns are unhelpful when it comes to going faster more often. When you’ve identified these two things, make sure you do something to change the unhelpful ones. Your rivals will be doing something today that will gain them a tenth tomorrow. You need to make those personal ‘triggers’ work for you, not against you.

You know what the top guys do and what you should be doing, don’t you?


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Next Edition – Four big problems with your sub-conscious mind and how to solve them

How and why you need to upgrade the software of your mind
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Enjoy your racing and never give up.

Regards

Mike

Mike Garth
Helping karters, racing drivers and motorcycle racers perform better
+44 (0) 7737 655 912
www.sun1400.com
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