Hello, and welcome back to Brain in the Game. Brain in the Game is a podcast that's been specifically designed for athletes, coaches, and parents who are out there looking to do their sport just that little bit smarter. Brain in the Game tackles those issues that others just won't. The Mental Ones. And I'm your host, Dave Diggle. In this episode 50, we've got a bit of a special episode for you this time. I did a live video feed from Sepang in Malaysia, the F1 circuit recently, What I'm going to do at the end of this podcast is play you a snippet of that live video. Just the audio, obviously, for those of you who listen on podcast. You can go to my website, which is smartmind.com, and watch the video. In this episode 50, we're going to look at managing emotions. Our emotions can be our rocket fuel or they can be our kryptonite. We know that our emotions are so incredibly important to us in order to make us not only become successful, but we also know that they can also derail us at any moment if we're not careful in how we manage them, how we use them, and how we keep them intact and in tow.
What we're going to look at today is a couple of different ways that our emotions are critical to our success and how we can then handle them with those kick gloves at times where we got to make sure that we don't break them. Many athletes struggle with their emotions. However, they don't recognise it as their emotions when things are not going right for them. They tend to think that it's a skill shortage or something that they've not been able to consolidate that's a physical aspect of their training or their competition. That's where they look for corrections. They look, what skill do I need to do differently or what performance do I need to put together in order for me to overcome the way that I'm feeling. When in reality, all that we're doing when we do that is we're trying to fix something that's not necessarily broken. We're not looking for the cause, we're looking at the symptom. The symptom is if we're feeling in an emotionally unstable and unperforming way, that when we do something, a skill doesn't work or a competition doesn't come together the way that we want it to, what we look at then is a physical, how do I fix that?
How do I then go back and make that skill work? How do How do I force that? What do I need to do physically to make myself perform that skill? What we want to be able to do is recognise the cause. The cause is often an emotional one or something that's going on internally rather than externally. And if we can do that, if we can recognise what that is and fix that, then the skill will fix itself. I don't know if you've ever come across, well, one skill doesn't work, and then that snowballs into multiple different skills that don't work, or if you have a bad competition that snowballs into many bad competitions. The reality to that is that it's not necessarily a bad competition. It's something that we're focusing on. It's what we get from our perspective that we then carry with us, like this heavy emotional weight and luggage to the next one. We start the next competition already laden down with the burden of the one before. The same thing happens with skills. Frequently, athletes will say to me, I've lost a skill, and I'd say, Okay, what happened? They'll say, I couldn't do skill X.
Okay, so then what happened after that? X, Y, and Z fell over as well. Okay, so what we're saying here is because you lost one skill, automatically, you started losing other skills. So your skill ability or your skill set as an athlete changed, and they'll go, yes. And I'll go, well, obviously it didn't. What's happened here is an emotional thing. It's a psychological perspective rather than a physiological perspective. What we want to be able to do then is to isolate where that catalyst happened, what went on inside your mind for you to think that you can't do that skill. That's what we're going to do today. There's two aspects of managing our emotions that we can utilise. It can either frighten the bejeebers out of us and scare us to the point where we can't perform, or it can motivate us so much that nothing becomes an issue. We overcome every single hurdle that we possibly can. This is all part and parcel of the same internal process, just dichonomic. It can either derail us or send us to the moon. How does that work? Why are our emotions so critical to our success or our failures?
If we think about our nerves, first of all, the things that make us fearful or anxious about either competitions or certain skills, often we don't have those same degree of nerves at our home track or our home training venue. Why is that? Why is it when you're training at home or you're competing in your home ground, your nerves are not as bad as if you go to another training venue or compete in another ground. If the skill set is what you're looking at, if it's, I can perform this I have a skill here, but I can't perform that skill there, that mechanical, can I not do it? Then that's not logical, is it? If you think about that from a logical perspective, if you can do the skill at your local venue, then of course, physically, you're capable of doing the skills somewhere else. What's not as obvious is it's not what you do, it's how you do it. More specifically, it's how you think you do it. When you compete and train at home, in your home venue, you have a familiarity to that. The only part of familiarity that is affected by this is lowering your anxiety, lowering your emotional state to a more stable platform.
This enables you to put things in perspective. It enables you to see things for what they are, not what you think they are. When you're at home and you're training in your venue and you're You go there probably five, six times a week, maybe even more, maybe slightly less, but you have that familiarity. When you go there, your emotions are on an even kill. You might be going there and you say, Right, tonight I'm going to learn a brand new skill. So your emotions come up a little bit. They become slightly heightened, but they're not to the point of derailing you. However, when you go to a competition or when you walk into that venue, you walk into that venue with a much higher level of emotional anxiety. Our emotions and our pain are exactly the same thing. Let me explain it this way. When you're happy and you're healthy and life's going really well, you deal with things quite successfully. If a situation arises around you normally, you can normally overcome those normal situations fairly efficiently. You might be really good at them. Bang. Situation arises, dealt with, move on. Or you might be one of those people contemplate it for a small amount of time and then deal with it and move on.
But the point is that you do deal with them and you do move on. That's otherwise, you'd be completely stuck and would never grow. In order for the fact to move forward, we have to deal with certain situations. When we're in a comfortable environment, we deal with those much easier. When we're in an uncomfortable environment or we're not feeling well, then those situations become overwhelming to us. If you're sick and you stub your toe, that's it. The world's over. You have to lay down in bed for an hour just to get over you stubborn your toe. The pain is so much more intense when you're not well, of course. All your senses are heightened. Your emotional level is much higher. Your sensitivity to touch, to feel, to smell is heightened too. This is a psychological thing. It's because it's trying to protect you. You're not feeling well, so you're not as observant as you normally would be. So your emotions and your senses get heightened to protect you. It's an innate part of our brain. What that does for us, it makes us overcautious. That makes us over sensitive to what's going on around us.
The same way as when you're not well, if you go into a new venue, you're the same thing. You're not as aware of your environment, you're not as comfortable with your environment, so your sense has become far more alert. This puts a sense of anxiety inside your decision making. It also raises all your senses. So your sense of touch, your sense of smell becomes greater. You go into a new venue and you would smell something that you might even smell in your own training venue, but it becomes more front of thought for you, more relevant to where you are. This process of our senses becoming far more alert is a good thing. However, However, what we don't recognise is that his emotions start to play a bigger part too. And unless we keep those in check, they become the most prevalent thing to our thought process because our emotions are in there to protect us. Back in the days of the sabre-tooth tiger, of course, our emotions feed our imagination. If we want to protect ourselves, we got to imagine what's going on around us. Those of you who've heard my podcast in the past, probably 10 or 15 podcasts ago, we talked about this same concept.
Evolutionarily, our brain is designed to protect us, to use our imagination to say, If this could occur here, it could also occur over there or over there. We imagine what could happen. This fail safe trip switch in our brain says, if we go somewhere, our fears that we have here would also be fears over there. Or Or our ability to protect ourselves here should be the same ability to protect ourselves over there if we're cautious about it. This trip switch in our brain enables us to be cautious, to be careful, is designed to help us. Back in the days of the sabre-tooth tiger, I can see the relevance to that. Today, with a few less sabre-tooth tigers out there trying to eat us, our imagination, however, has a far greater database to call upon. We know far more things today than we did back in the sabre-tooth tiger days. Our fear levels can be greater because we've got more things to call upon, more sludge to throw in our brain to say, This could happen, that could happen, this catastrophic thing could fall on you, could eat you, could squash you, could maim you. Whatever it is, our brain has so much more data to scare us with.
If we don't keep that in check, then it can completely derail us. It can completely ruin our careers. That is fed by our emotions. Unless we keep our emotions in check, we can derail and be catastrophic to our careers if we don't control it. I talk about our emotions being our pitbull. If we let it loose, it's completely uncontrollable. If we put a leash on it, we can use its power. It can drag us along. How do we do this? How do we, first of all, manage these fears? What do we need to do to make our imagination not frighten the bejeebus out of it every single time we go somewhere? We've already got that strategy clear in our mind because we use it when we're back home. We have that familiarity, we have that continuity, we have a system, we have a structure that we follow. When we rock up to training, if you stopped today and you looked back over the last 6 months, 12 months your training, you will see a lot of patterns that you follow every single day when you go training or when you go to compete at your local venue.
You would have strategies already in place that are designed to make you feel more comfortable, more at ease, to lower that anxiety. Our brain is quite smart. If we didn't have strategies to manage those emotions, to lower that anxiety, then we would just become completely overwhelmed. Our brain wouldn't be able to cope. It looks for signs to show us that, you know what? Everything's cool here. There's no sabre-tooth tigers. There's nothing to be fearful of. We can be relaxed. Those same strategies that we employ to make sure that when we're at home, we're comfortable, we can employ it when we go to a new venue. It's just, first of all, understanding what is that strategy? What is it that works for me? Is it something visual? Is it something I say to myself? Is it just a pattern I habitually follow every single day? When we recognise those things, we take out the good parts of those, the parts of that that's structurally we can replicate anywhere else. Things that we can talk about, things that we can recognise, things that we can hang our hat on and say, That makes me feel good. I know why it works, so I can use it.
If we go into your training venue, if we look back over your last 6-12 months, what habits do you have when you go training? Do you put your bag in a specific spot? Do you warm up in a specific way? Do you talk to your peers and then start stretching? Or what is it for you? Everybody would be different. Do you wear specific things? I don't know. Do you go through a strategy that's specifically for you that makes you feel comfortable? There It would be something that works. It would be something that's unique to you that makes you subconsciously go, Everything's okay. Everything's normal. You can relax. You can enjoy. Calm. Do that exercise. Take a few minutes after this podcast and write down, When I go training, what is it that specifically makes me feel comfortable? What specifically makes me feel in control? Because that's what we're talking about here. It's being in control of your environment. It's doing things habitually or consistently that you know when you turn up and you do this, you feel comfortable. Now, when I speak to athletes, they'll say, I do it all the time. I don't have to think about it, but you do think about it.
Subconsciously, you will think about it. Maybe not consciously because you do it all the time. But subconsciously, your brain is ticking boxes when you walk into your venue. Because if you walked into your venue and you did something completely different to what you would normally do, your brain would go ding, heightened awareness, what's different? What do I need to be aware of? Where is that sabre-tooth tiger? I need to make sure that nothing's going to eat me, scare me, or hurt me. There's strategies in place already. There's things that you do that you aren't aware of doing. We just need to recognise those and work with those. That familiarity, that structure, that strategy needs to be extracted from what you do already because there's a history of success there. There's things that you do that we should be using. Now, would that be a perfect strategy to take forward? No. Because there'll be things in that that are not useful. There will be things in that strategy we would not have the ability to replicate. We need to take out the framework. Look at what makes you comfortable, and then we would need to build a strategy, a template that we can apply in any situation.
If you walk in the door every single time and you hit the fire extinguisher when you walk in the door and go, Right, that's it, training day. That's a great strategy if that fire extinguisher is there. If that fire extinguisher is not there and you walk in and it's missing, straight away, your brain's heightened. Your emotions, your senses are switched on to go, It's different. We want to have things that are replicable. Things that we, in any situation, in any venue, in any competitive environment, we can replicate. There are things that you can normally take with you. There are things that you can say to yourself. There are physical actions that you can trigger to have that familiarity and consistency. We're better to learn these and practise these, but in an environment you're already comfortable, your normal training environment. We want to have a switch, a consistent, structural approach to how you approach your training, how you come in, what do you say to yourself, what actions do you do, what things can you take with you that you can always... Like the same bag, the same whatever it is. These consistent things that you could then take to a venue that is not your normal venue, whether it be competitive or training, would already make you feel more at home.
It won't take away all the awareness, all your senses, because you are in a different situation. Your mind will be looking for differences. What we want to be able to do is lower it to the point where you gain back control, rather than your emotions control you. Fears are a normal everyday thing. Our brain is there trying to protect us so that we can move on and still have tomorrow and the day after. We don't want to take fear away from us. We don't want to go, right, I want to do something so I'm never scared, because that's no self-preservation in that. That won't be something that's productive for us going forward. Otherwise, we would have no awareness of what's going on around us, and things could hurt us. We want to keep that mechanism in place. We just want to control it. We want to put the leash on that pitbull. Once we've got that, once we can manage our emotions through managing our fears by having consistency, having a structure, and having a framework, we can then start to focus on what we want. We know we get what we focus on. If we're focusing on what's different, if we're focusing on what's going to scare us, then they're the things that we're going to see.
If we focus on what control we have over it, what the familiarities are, what the consistencies are, and what we want, they're going to be the things that we're going to see. Part is how do we manage our fears? It is done through managing our structure, those familiar things that make us feel we're in control, that are consistent in our everyday approach, and that make us already a strategy we already have to make us feel calm and lower our senses, lower those emotions so that we have a better ability to see things for what they are, not what our imagination thinks they could be. That's the The negative side of it. Managing the negative, the emotions by building the positive, by having a consistent approach. How do we use our emotions for motivation? Again, we've talked about using our decision matrix, and we do that because we utilise our end step. Our big end objective could be our competition objective, it could be our training objective, it could be our season objective or our career objective. When we look at those different objectives, what we're looking for is the reason, the buy-in. Why do I want that?
If you're looking at a training objective of, tonight, I want to go and learn this skill, once you've identified what that skill is, the most important thing to ask is, why? Why is that important to me? What's that going to give me? When we get that emotional buy into what it's going to give me, what outcome I'm going to get when I have that, we already have a reason why we do something. Neurologically, everything we do is done for a reason. It doesn't matter if it's blinking your eyes, scratching your leg, picking your nose, whatever it is, it's all done for a reason. We don't do anything for no reason whatsoever. Now, the people will tell you, you do things for no reason. The reality from a neurological perspective, that's not true. If we scratch, it's because we've got an itch. If we pick our nose, it's because we've got a blocked nose and we've got discussed lasting habits. Whatever it is, we do it for a reason. It may not be a logical reason to somebody else. It may not be an acceptable reason to somebody else. But in our own brain, it's a rational decision.
Everything has a reason. When we recognise that reason, we then create value for that reason. Is doing this worth getting that? If your value on your objective is greater than the value on your actions, then you'll do it. However, if your value for your objective is so low, then there's no buying to do what you need to do to get it. You might want to, at the end of your session, I want to achieve this goal. Why do you want to do that? I don't know. It's just a skill. If you don't have a buying, the minute you have an exit strategy, you're going to look for that as being a greater value than achieving that objective. That's what you're going to take. You take that exit strategy because it has a higher value to you. When we think about objectives, we've got to look at the why. If the why is not a big enough buy-in, look for a different objective. The objective needs to be so magnetic that everything that you do is pulling you towards that objective. Every single thing that you put your body through, put your mind through, time that you utilise in training.
The thing that you give away, all the things that you give away have got to be of a lower value than that big end objective. That's got to be worth more to you than everything else that you do. If it's not, look for a different objective. Otherwise, it's not sustainable. It's not something that you're going to look at and go, getting out of bed at 4:00 in the morning, running I'm doing that 10Ks. Man, I could have done without that. I could have stayed in bed this morning, but I want that. So this has been worth it. That's an emotion. That end-step objective buying is an emotion Why is it of value to me? What do I want? Why is it something I'm prepared to give up all these other things for to get to? That's an emotion. We manage that by being really clear, concise and precise about what it is, and then really clear, concise and precise about what it gives us, why it's of value to us. When we think about that, that is our positive luggage. We've got fears that create negative luggage that we just don't want to carry with us.
We don't want them anywhere near us. We can leave them outside. When we go to our training venue and you've had a bad day at work or you've had a bad day at school, or you've had an argument with your parents on the way there or with your partner, That's luggage that we got to deal with it, but you don't have to deal with it while you're training. You can leave the outside the venue. I'll often take athletes who turn up for training still carrying that luggage. I will come outside and go, Right, what did you bring in here today that you shouldn't bring in here. And I'll go, Oh, you know what? I had an argument with so and so, and it's still playing on my mind. I think, Okay, right. When are you going to deal with that? Tomorrow when I get to work or I get to school, whatever it is, or what tonight when I get home and see mum or dad. All right, So we know it's going to be dealt with. Put that to one side now. Take it outside, leave it out there. It's yours. You get to keep it.
You get to take it home with you. But you do not need to bring it into the training. And I'll physically get them to Capulcat side and put imaginary luggage outside. Okay, now you've walked in, do you feel lighter? And 99.9% will say, Yeah. Okay, so what's the objective inside this training? So let's choose positive luggage. What do you want to bring in here? And then that shift in perspective shifts their emotions. So managing emotion is all about perspective. What you see is what you choose to see. In the same way that if you choose to see the negatives, they're what you will see. You'll see them everywhere you want. If you want to look at the world in a negative way, or you want to look at everything that you do in, I can't do that, or I haven't never done that, so I'll never be able to do that, then sure, that's exactly what you'll get, and that's exactly what you will see. You will see an abundance of I can't have, so I can't do's. If you choose to see what you do want and how you do get that, you will see more of those than you do with the negatives, because that's what you choose to put your focus on.
We get what we focus on. Now, I'm not naive enough to think, just think positive thoughts and it all happens. That's not true. It's just about choosing what you get to see. Our brain can't process everything. If we choose to focus on the negatives, then our brain will focus on that, and it will use all its capable mind space to focus on that because you've told it, it's a value to you. If you choose to focus on the positives and what you can have and what you need to do to get what you want, then your brain will focus on that because you've told it that's of more value to you than those negative things. It's a choice. It's about utilisation of what facilities you have available in your brain, what resources are available to you. You have limited resources. Use them for positive rather than negative. It's a choice. Our emotions are critical to our success. They are of rocket fuel if you want to focus on what you want to have. If you focus on what you don't want, what you can't have, what you didn't do, then it will be your kryptonite.
It will drag you down. It's just human nature. It's what we are designed to do, to focus on what we tell it to focus on. Emotions are important. We manage them by focusing on everything that we want, but also we need to focus on balance. In order to feed them, like when I said at the start, if you're not well, if you're tired, you're anxious, then everything seems to overwhelm us. What that is, is a lack of balance. We need to bring our emotions back into check. It's pointless being unwell, going to a training session, having such a poor training session, that that compounds into making us feeling even worse, and then seeing more negatives. All we're doing is building a strategy and habitual behaviour and neurological points of reference to the negatives. The likelihood of us overturning that is minimal. We need to add balance to that. If it is a physical thing, then get better. I don't mean go and stay at home and don't do anything, but maybe knock it back a notch or two. Put things into perspective. If it's a time thing, if you're constantly feeling like you're running behind schedule, schedule your time better.
Take the time to do a much better time management structure. Then once you've done that, once you've taken the action and you can put things into perspective, you'll notice that the Those little things aren't tripping you up anymore. Those little things aren't becoming boulders that you can't move or get round. All it's about is perspective, and perspective feeds our emotions, and our emotions feed our perspective. We want to make sure that these two are in check and well balanced. What I'm going to do now is I'm going to finish up this part of the podcast, and I'm going to play just a short snippet from the live video feed I did from the Sepang F1 circuit in Malaysia. I'd been there training with one of my clients on preseason testing for the racing season, and I was watching and observing other teams and other drivers and how they managed the fears and the motivation. I hope you enjoy it. The sound quality isn't great because the noise from the racing cars going past were huge, but I'm sure you'll get something out of it. Until the next episode of Brain in the Game, train smart and enjoy the ride.
My name's Dave Diggle, and I'm the mind coach.
For those of you who are watching online, you'll see a live video feed. Here from Sepang F1 circuit here in Malaysia. For everybody else, you'll be listening through a podcast or maybe reading this on my blog. But we're going to We're going to be speaking today about emotions. I'm here with my client pretesting for the season that's coming up. One of the things that's been very obvious to me is when I look around and I see so many different other athletes who are struggling with their emotions. That could be because they're nervous, it could be they're overwhelmed by the F1 circuit, or it could be they've been here so many times that they've lost that drive. All of this comes down to managing our emotions. Our emotions can either be the rocket fuel to get us going, or it can be our kryptonite. Depending on how we use our emotions, it depends on the result that we get. So in this episode, episode 50, we're going to have a look at how we utilise our emotions efficiently to overcome either our nerves or to fire us up and get us motivated and moving along. So Why are emotions such a critical aspect to our behaviour and our performance?
Emotions hold the key both to our memories and our drive. So when we've looked before and we've looked at how we create momentum and traction, we've looked at using our emotions for our end objective to buy in and get that drive forwards and that reason why. Also, when we've looked at our fears, we've recognised that emotions have a huge part to play in us creating our own fears Our brain then buys in and creates a much bigger problem than it actually really is, so that protects us. Again, this is utilising our emotion. We also know that emotions help us catalogue our memories. When we want to replicate performance, what we're using there is a recall from our memory based on categorization with an emotion. As you can see, emotions are really important to us. They hold so many different keys to to so many different aspects of our welfare and our performance. How do we manage those? As I say, here at the circuit, and you probably hear the cars hooning around the circuit behind me, I've seen a lot of young athletes, and some of the older athletes, struggling with nerves or struggling with being able to put it together consistently.
When we understand that this is down to our emotions and how our emotions are categorising and cataloguing our memories, we can utilise that more efficiently. What we can do is to create an opportunity to know what we want from an objective, how we then see that objective, unpacking it, and then how we catalogue it and put it into our brain. We can do that by pre selecting where we want it to go, what it should look like and the mechanical aspect of that performance, and then turning around and saying, Okay, that performance was one of these kinds of categorizations. This is what I can get from it, and this is where I want to put it so I can How to access it? Becoming a little bit more clinical with the way that we analyse and process our information before we give it that emotional tag. When we think about that from a performance perspective, when we look at how we can maximise on using our emotions to better catalogue and categorise, that comes down to preemptively setting up different kinds of catalogues that we wanted to go in. Is that something that worked? Is it something that didn't Or is it something I need to do different?
And those of you who've listened to my podcast before or come along to my live trainings, know that I talk about that sequence of order and sequence frequently. So what worked, what didn't work, what would I do different? When we think about what worked, we're looking for the positives. We're looking for that emotional high. So that's a positive emotion we want to keep. They're the luggage we want to take with us. When we look at what didn't work, we got to recognise what didn't work. With that, it's going to come some negative emotions. We want to be able to disassociate ourselves from those emotions so that we can learn from them, but without taking those as luggage with us. When we look at what we can do different, that's our preemptive look at how we make things better in the future. We have our opportunity then to go, I can problem solve here, and how do I put that right? That's an exciting place and a very emotionally driven place. If you've got something that's not working for you, then all of a sudden, well, I've got a solution to this, that's going to be a good emotional drive for you to constantly being switched on, looking for the solution-based thinking.
I've spoken there a little bit about how we categorise, but also we want to think about how we utilise our emotions to get us motivated in the first place. We've talked before about using the decision matrix and starting with the end objective, and then recognising that big end why. Why do I want this? Why is it important to me? When we recognise That's why it's important to us we can utilise that to drive us forward. How do we manage that? And that's more specifically why I wanted to do this podcast today here. When we think about what that is, we're focusing on what we don't have. And that's an emotional negative place for us to start from. You know as well as I do, we get what we focus on. So if we're focusing on what we don't have, then that's exactly what we're going to end up with, things that we don't have. When we think about that, we've got to be realistic, being able to look at where do I need to improve. However, we want to focus on what we do have. When we go out and we want to perform, we want to look at the parts of our performance, parts of our preparation, parts of our skillset that we do own, we do know what we're doing with, and how we can then better utilise those through structured approach.
We can do this by sitting down and working out, All right, what do I need in In order for me to perform well at this venue, what do I need? What skillsets do I need to do that? We have a very clear and concise demographic and personification, really, of what it takes to be a great, in this case, driver around this track. Then we'll look at, Okay, what parts of those different skill sets do I own? We can start ticking off, Yep, you know what? I can drive this vehicle. Yep, okay, I do know the track. I do know where the fast parts are. I do know where I need to be heavy on the brakes. I do know where to come out in a lower gear. So you do your homework. You understand all the mechanical aspects of what you're doing. Once you've done that, once you recognise all the things that you do have, then you need to, again, recognise the things, Okay, what do I need to improve on? What's the aspects that would make this a much better, much more reliable drive? All right, now I've got those. Do I have them?
If I don't have them, what What do I got to do to get them? What action do I need to take in order to get those skill sets to up my performance? Again, what we're doing was we're using our emotions rather than focus on what we don't have. We're focusing on, What do I need to do to make this work? How do I get this from here to here? These are the three key steps I've got to do, or five steps or two steps. Whatever it is that you need to focus on, whatever it is that you need to do to get you to where you want to get to. When we use our emotions in this positive format, what that does is embeds in our brain in such a way that it makes it recallable, meaning that we can go out and we can replicate that performance. That's where the structure comes in. If we go out and we've got a template that we constantly use, then we can gauge off that too. If that bit worked, great, we'll keep that. If that bit worked, but we could do it better, okay, let's tweak that and make it better.
If that bit didn't work, okay, let's get rid of that and replace that. Our emotions can, as I said before, be the fuel to get us where we want to get to, or can be our kryptonite. The choice in how you use your emotions, what you do with them, how you manage them, and how you get the most out of you as an athlete is down to you. It becomes a choice. A very short, very sharp podcast today. I hope you've enjoyed it. I hope I'm going to go back now and work on the track. See you next time.
