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Focus on winning sessions of matches you play!

By Bamboo In The Wind

To focus on actual results, the best approach is to focus on the nearest work. Just next to you. 

Operating in the vicinity is fraught with focusing on the micro instead of the macro canvas. And, micro canvas makes you uncomfortable. 

In microenvironments, everything appears just here, within reach. You are called out to begin painting. You have to get started unguarded. It gives a feeling of a constraining environment that requires you here and now. To be in the present and flow with your imagination. You feel kind of exposed. 

Your worries are justified. What if you leave the micro canvas over or under-utilized? What if you made irreversible mistakes? What if you disappoint yourself. What if you let anyone else down? Justified. But often stalling. Fear grips you. Stay there until it doesn't. The sky clears, and thinking prevails!

That opens the door of possibility. It is an imaginary door that unlocks only with a key of fearlessness. You begin to believe that the micro canvas is large enough, and you can pick a section of the canvas and make an attempt.

You make mental markings such that you apply yourself in sections. The micro that looked scary at first now looks engagement worthy. Much better than the chaotic whole (macro) that you could hide within. Micro now leaves the room for experiments and recoveries. 

The discovery that the small sections received your attention brings more composure. You now focus on the next with flowing ideas of extending and expanding from the initial ones.

Everywhere we look, it is the same. Whether achieving comfortable progress in schools, business, arts, music, hobbies, or sports. To achieve something substantial, you need something small and attainable. It brings control and agency back to you.

No point in focusing on the entire match. Instead, find how to can convert smaller sessions. The confidence to extend your lead into the next one follows right after.

Focusing on sessions is a habit of exposing you to an uncomfortable microenvironment that requires a relatively simple approach. Exposing yourself to everyday work!

Doing seemingly straightforward, routine work, taking it up as it comes, and daily duties will earn you unexpected rewards.

You might be surprised where it lands you!

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