I'm a playoff fan of major league baseball. So I'll never claim that I'm a die hard fan. But the recent success of the Colorado Rockies has been fascinating to me. Not more then a few weeks ago the Rockies playoff hopes were about gone. But starting about 30 days ago, Colorado has won 20 of 21 games, which is unheard of according to most major league baseball fans! Each game leading to the playoffs could have been their last one. They had to play San Diego in the "play in game", which they one by one in the 13th inning! Now they've swept through the Phillies, and look to sweep Arizona in the next few days. Even if Colorado finishes short of winning it all, the Colorado Rockies run in 2007 could be looked at one of the greatest runs in baseball history.
How are they doing it? The canned answer is they play one game at a time. But I know one thing they're not doing, and that's believing the season is over. If they for once had thought that during that two week incredible run at the end of the season, then they would be watching the playoffs instead of rocking through them.
Here is a prime example of how sports relate to life. We like the Rockies have had an incredible run in the mortgage and real estate industry. Recently we've gone through a slump. The market's down, homes are not selling, the phones are not ringing, bills are piling up, everything seems depressing. So how do some ignore the negativity and manage to pull out victory.
I think it's mostly in the mind. The teams that the Rockies are playing and beating have no less talent, they're no less capable of winning. The Rockies are playing on another level, one that has been created by their mind. They have entered that focus or mind set that it's not possible to lose. They believe 100% in the possibility that they can achieve the impossible. Will that win them the World Series ? Time will tell...but the fact remains that they've mastered something that we all need to wrap our minds around, and that's the fact that we all can achieve what's impossible if we simple believe in possibility.
Possibility only exists if we can leave the distractions of what's happened in the past. It can only exist if we can move past that phrase that we often overuse. "Reality" is only the possibility that we create in our mind! So if someone wants to tell you to "face reality", you need to ask them, "which one?...yours or mine!"
So drop "what is reality", and focus on "what is possible"...... and one more thing...GO ROCKIES!!!
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