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How to be sure to mark the penalty shootouts

Blow the whistle Cup final. It's one apiece. The extra time was played, but no scores. The referee signals a shootout. Now, five men from each side has to step up and put the ball into the net only once.

It's something they can do in their sleep, but at least one of them will lose. How is it possible that the stars of talented and highly paid, you can lose vital shot that will bring the glory?

This is a dilemma men and women have suffered for centuries.

When writing about the pressures to win an archery contest, the 3 rd century BC writer Taoist Chuang-Tzu says that when we focus on the prize and do not work, we lose the edge of our ability. He said: "An archer shooting a clay pot for shooting without effort, his unfettered talent. If the prize is changed to an ornament, start shaking hands. If you change to gold, squinting as if he were going blind. His skills do not deteriorate, but his belief in them does, as it allows the supposed value of an external reward to cloud their vision. "

Of course, football stars and archery champions are not the only ones affected by the rewards of winning.

It is well known that the most vulnerable of any trade negotiation is just before the final when, perhaps after a long and difficult process, first prize is an agreement in scope and mentally relax their guard thrown on the line. As says an Indian proverb puts it: "Beware the tiger at the end of the fight." This is the time, which appears at the foot of detection, but his opponent relax, tiger turns and makes his strike.

In a negotiation, one of the smartest tactics that a negotiator can use is the trick Salami. This is when an important concession is rejected during the negotiations, but conceded in the end, little by little, because the less experienced negotiator relax your guard. It's like a sausage to be offered a slice at a time, even before knowing where the whole sausage is gone.

The reason I fail at the last moment in all these tests is due to distraction. In short, it loses focus.

When we focus on the task, all our attention is directed on it. We stop side eerily reminiscent of past thoughts and tempting in the future. We open ourselves to what is happening here and now.

The word "focus" comes directly from the Latin word "focus" which means a home or a fire. In the days before electricity, the fire was in the middle of the house. Those sufficiently fortunate to have an open fire in their homes today to know the time on a winter evening can only look to the wood fire or coals and lost in their dreams.

In fact, there are two approaches: hard and soft.

hard approach is the same as the concentration or tunnel vision when everything is counted is what is before you, as an athlete than 100 meters looking down the track to the exclusion of everything else.

There are two ways to enter a state of focus hard. One of them is to be physically yet. The other is to eliminate all distractions. Once you delete all around, the hard approach is what is left.

The approach Soft has a different quality. It is also known as immersion of one mind, the excitement of the zero point and free-flowing thought.

Instead to focus their thoughts on your goal similar to the laser, to expand their consciousness in a dream to include the whole environment. Tune with the time and place. You can even become aware of yourself in a decoupled.

A good year for soft focus is to imagine yourself as a blue feather floating in the wind. No destination, no time, no obstacles. You are aware of yourself and expand, in the sense of freedom and possibilities.

It's time that time stands still and has no meaning, where hours pass like minutes and minutes like hours.

This is what Daniel Coleman calls "flow": a state of oblivion the opposite of rumination and worry. Instead of getting lost in the nervous before the occupation, people in flow are so absorbed in the task that they lose all self-consciousness, dropping the small pre-occupations – health bills, but rather – of everyday life.

And that is the secret of work: do work for the sake of it, not by leading a.

In his book "Thank God It's Monday," Charles Cameron and Suzanne Ellusor describe seeing a Zen monk sweeping the snow the steps of a temple in the middle of a snowstorm. The more it snowed, more sweeping. The monk did not expect to clear the steps in the snow or the storm hit. I did not expect nothing. The simplicity of his actions was enough to make it worthwhile, the process beyond the end result being a place of execution.

This is what they call "zenning" and is in the heart of all success.

In fact, there are only two ways you can fail at any business. One is giving up. The other is trying too hard. If you are at the last hurdle, the final stretch, or about to take the final shot in a drawn match, simply to learn to stop, let go and trust in yourself. That's when you discover all the energies of the opening for you and your success will undoubtedly be yours.

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