Remember when you were young and your teachers and parents suggested that when you study you find a good seated posture, proper lighting, and a quite environment. For some reason, lounging on your bed was not the ideal study posture.
Remember how your coach spent so much time instructing you how to address the plate, address the ball, or address the free throw line? For some reason, your physical posture was important to good form in athletics.
Do you recognize how so many employers and leaders put so much focus on your attentiveness and outward posture in front of their clients and customers? For some reason, your physical posture is important in communicating certain messages of attentiveness and readiness to those you are trying to serve.
We can see in so many areas of our lives the value of posturing ourselves before our work or craft. Why is this?
When we spend the necessary time focusing on preparing ourselves physically, we are spending the same amount of time on preparing ourselves mentally. I fully believe that the mental preparation far outweighs the physical preparation, but it is the physical preparation that allows our minds and our hearts to be drawn into the moment or the task. As you focus on your physical posture and breath control before a free throw, you are also calming your mind to allow you to perform unhindered and un-distracted, and therefore, perform to the best of your ability.
When you sit up and prep your study environments, you are convincing yourself that this is important. Focus. Pay attention. Remain calm. Retain. You are focusing your mind.
No matter what you are giving yourself to, if you want to succeed, you must posture yourself correctly. Your posture sets your intentions, and your intentions determine your success.
What is vying for your attention, focus, and time? Is it your family, your children, or your spouse? Is it your career or craft? Is it school or a sport? Is it a character trait that you hope to shape, or a discipline that you are trying to sharpen? No matter what it is, posture yourself. Prepare yourself physically and mentally as you approach these areas of life. When you do, you communicate to yourself and to those around you that this matters to you- that they are important to you, and you bring yourself into a place ready to perform- ready to succeed.
How do you posture yourself?
Remember how your coach spent so much time instructing you how to address the plate, address the ball, or address the free throw line? For some reason, your physical posture was important to good form in athletics.
Do you recognize how so many employers and leaders put so much focus on your attentiveness and outward posture in front of their clients and customers? For some reason, your physical posture is important in communicating certain messages of attentiveness and readiness to those you are trying to serve.
We can see in so many areas of our lives the value of posturing ourselves before our work or craft. Why is this?
When we spend the necessary time focusing on preparing ourselves physically, we are spending the same amount of time on preparing ourselves mentally. I fully believe that the mental preparation far outweighs the physical preparation, but it is the physical preparation that allows our minds and our hearts to be drawn into the moment or the task. As you focus on your physical posture and breath control before a free throw, you are also calming your mind to allow you to perform unhindered and un-distracted, and therefore, perform to the best of your ability.
When you sit up and prep your study environments, you are convincing yourself that this is important. Focus. Pay attention. Remain calm. Retain. You are focusing your mind.
No matter what you are giving yourself to, if you want to succeed, you must posture yourself correctly. Your posture sets your intentions, and your intentions determine your success.
What is vying for your attention, focus, and time? Is it your family, your children, or your spouse? Is it your career or craft? Is it school or a sport? Is it a character trait that you hope to shape, or a discipline that you are trying to sharpen? No matter what it is, posture yourself. Prepare yourself physically and mentally as you approach these areas of life. When you do, you communicate to yourself and to those around you that this matters to you- that they are important to you, and you bring yourself into a place ready to perform- ready to succeed.
How do you posture yourself?
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