Four ways to choose how you react to a situation

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Four ways to choose how you react to a situation

When something happens in your race team, how much choice do you really have?
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Hi there

When stuff happens in your race team, what controls the way you react?

Is it the case that whenever certain things happen, when certain people say certain things, you will always react the same way, be that effective or ineffective?

There will definitely be situations that annoy you, and sometimes you’ll be right to get annoyed! However, sometimes you may ‘fly off the handle’, ‘retreat into your shell’ or ‘storm off in a huff’ when the reaction you choose only makes the situation worse. When at the track, of course, all we really care about is making the best laptime out of what we’ve got in front of us.

The key word in the sentences above is ‘choose’.

Even in the face of a tirade from the Team Numpty during a key racing moment, YOU have FREEDOM TO CHOOSE how you react in these four ways:

1st Way – Your self-awareness

When your self-awareness and performance state awareness is high, just as it is for all the top drivers, you will know when you need to exercise your ability to choose how you react.

2nd Way – Your imagination

Any top athlete can create in their minds what they want to have.

3rd Way – Your conscience

You will have your own inner ‘code of conduct’, your ‘rules of the game’ that you will naturally act according to, even without thinking. This could equally be ‘I’m happy to fire someone off at the start’ as it could be ‘they were wrong for launching me’.

4th Way – Your right to choose

Any racer at any level always has independent will. They always have the right to choose, but when under pressure, and without some basic mental skills, this right isn’t always exercised.


* The Mindset for Racing Finish Line *

You don’t have to react to the same situation in the same way everytime. You always have the freedom to choose how you react to an event, even if at times, that will test you to your limits, but that’s why we all go racing, isn’t it?

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


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Next Edition – Five scenarios in which you must be clear on the outcome

How well do you begin with the end in mind?
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Enjoy your racing and never give up.

Regards

Mike

Mike Garth
Helping karters and racing drivers perform better
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