Training and Performance Habits
How Do I Stay Focused Between Games at an All-Day Tournament?
Rhema Adelaja · National Champion & 4x DUX
Treat the gap as a reset. Use a Gear Shift: shut down the last game, reset your body, then prime for the next one. Tools to try: a notebook, box breathing, visualisation and a short mantra. Then pick one process goal for the next game.
The answer
- Shut down the last game. Write what happened in plain facts in a notebook.
- Ask: what was in my control? What did I learn?
- Reset your body. Try box breathing.
- Prime for the next game. Visualise your first action.
- Choose a short mantra and say it before you go back out.
- Pick one process goal for the next game, something that is yours to control.
- Ask: what is my next action? Then do it.
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