Motivation to Keep Going or Start Again (Joe Rogan) - Watch and Understand

 

Focus: How to use it to improve your life and your tennis game

The ability to focus most of your efforts toward one goal usually predicts some level of success.  To become extremely good at something it usually means removing many other things from your daily activities.

So it is with tennis.  If you want to become a superior player you need to eat, read, sleep, exercise, and practice tennis.  It should all be focused on that objective and each item on that list and whatever others you can find must move you toward that goal.

Here is the Warren Buffet 20 slot rule for investments that you can find a way to repurpose as you invest your time and energy into tennis.

Focus: Another way to achieve it.

Focus on your training requires sacrifices.   Here is a good and quick rundown of the benefits of not having a social life to distract you from success.   In tennis, you'll see this among the high achievers.


Social Isolation has benefits  - no social life

How to maintain Focus based on the methods used by Medieval Monks

How to Avoid Over Analyzing While Playing

In response to a situation that comes up often among players still developing their technique they often keep analyzing their strokes while playing. I saw a question online today about this. Here is my suggestion for getting past this.

A reliable Fix:

I've seen many beginners successfully ignore overthinking by naturally being competitively intense. To have your mind occupied with technique while playing a match it means to me that a player needs to learn to focus. Heightened intensity is where your mind has no room for technical concerns.

At an intermediate playing level you need a weapon that won't break down. I'd pick one and work on it until it becomes highly capable of direction, depth, spin, and then speed. The forehand is usually the best stroke for this project. At that point you can implement strategy and forget worrying about form while playing. The other strokes will follow.

Do you need an example of intensity to emulate. Think Rafa Nadal