“It’s a concentration thing as well, being on the ball, playing every moment, every play, rather than lamenting what happened the play before.”
Man Craig Wing is pretty smart actually footballers despite popular beliefs they aren’t just knuckle head but are pretty switched on. I was reading an article about the Blues (Rugby League… Origin… nevermind) and this quote really struck me. It made me think how often I look back on things and lament about it rather than looking at what is coming next and living in the moment. Do I really have the focus that I’m meant to have on the task at hand or do spend too much wasted time crying over spilt milk?
I see it as being broken down into this. Concentrating on the object (ball), the now (moment) and the future (play), not the past (play before). I wish I lived my life like this. I think for myself so often I can look back and go ‘man that was good, lets replicate that’ or ‘man that was bad, don’t do that again’ and more often than not I screw up in the here and now or I try to replicate something that just simple won’t work in this current setting. I should be more focused on what is at hand though in saying this there is a place for looking back but only to analyze our errors and successes and to bring them to the now to avoid or try again.
Too much looking back means that we can’t look forward and usually ends up in disaster cos we crash into the car in front of us and end up paying through the nose cos you just crashed into a Ferrari. (not speaking from experience, just an analogy) but think you get the point.
