Confidence, Shutters and Scones
Hello once again to fans and detractors.
I blocked another fan who never stops moaning about Spurs yesterday, don't want children throwing their toys out their prams on my timeline.
ITK accounts using my info I don't mind as much, they don't like it when you know though.
All very childish.
I stand by what I write like the info weeks ago with actual figures for KWP and Højbjerg.
The Højbjerg fee was right £15m + add-ons, his wage was right, the KWP fee was right at £12m will everyone else was tossing out alternatives.
Knock me if you like, but I get it right time and time again.
Right, now I have patted myself on the back let's move on to devotion.
I'm giving a big thumbs up to Ben.
OK, you're all dying for some more Tottenham Tittle Tattle and wondering what I have for you today no doubt or are you reading for the culinary advice!
Confidence, that's what I have for you today folks, confidence.
No not my confidence, just confidence.
This post is actually inspired by an ENIC OUT Twitter account (yes I haven't blocked them all yet) with a remark where he hadn't grasped that Chiefs are the bosses, Indians work for a chief.
That is not to say budding chiefs are not learning their craft or that an Indian can not rise to the very top of his profession.
A deputy president is still and Indian, although a chief in all but name.
I'd better stop that path as that isn't the intention of this post.
OK, I'm off on another tangent anyway.
You have all heard me mention a book called Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, one of the most popular books of all time and essential reading for anyone wishing to be successful.
The background is, he interviewed over 200 ultra-successful people, Rothschild, Abraham Lincoln, Gerald Ford, vice-presidents, leaders of business etc to seek a formula for success and he found one.
The book explains that formula through it's chapters BUT you have to read slowly, take it all in, think about it and interpret it correctly.
Every chapter has a message that isn't expressly expressed. It is like reading a story in each chapter and understanding the meaning of each story.
Do that and you'll have your formula and it is a simple one because your subconscious will help you find the answers while you sleep.
Confidence, unshaking confidence is a key element.
We are talking confidence where you know without a shadow of doubt that you are going to succeed, it's just a matter of time.
Read a chapter slowly, take it it, think about what it means and then how it applies to you and where you want to go, where you see yourself being.
To put 99% of you off, you'll have to set goals and not just in your head.
As 99% of people just dismiss this and doesn't think it works, 99% are not successful, those that take it on board are.
Still on my tangent and off topic, how many Spurs players do you think have set goals, proper positive written down goals?
Goals that they remind themselves of every morning and every night so their subconscious can help them achieve?
The youngsters won't have, those that like a laugh won't have, they'll simply be I'd like to achieve this or I'd like to play for England.
Sorry that isn't anywhere near good enough.
They are simply wishy washy aspirations, dreams and things remain a dream unless you do something positive about them, preferably every day.
I would ask them what they are doing "over and above" the normal training everyone else is doing?
How are you going to rise to be the best you can be, the best in your field, if all you are doing is the same as everyone else?
Have you hired a chef like Harry Kane did to improve his fitness?
Have you undertaken or studied mental training to improve your decision making?
Do you have specific drills you do to improve a certain aspect of play?
Have you been to the boss, like Ronaldo did at Manchester United to ask to work one-on-one with a coach to develop every aspect of your game?
There are stacks of questions you could ask about lifestyle and about their views and you'll be into their real mindset in no time, not the mindset they think they have and tell you they have, the real mindset they don't even know they have.
Their subconscious knows the real mindset and tells the brain what path to take.
Control that message and you control the decision making and thus performance.
Anyway enough of that tangent, let's get back on topic, confidence.
Over 500 words and we haven't started yet, but those 500 odd words could change your life if you truly desires and not just thought you desired but couldn't be bothered to put in the effort (99% of people).
What does confidence do?
First and foremost it allows you to see opportunity where others see none.
It allows you to see more opportunities and more factors in any given situation than those of a lower confidence level.
Now let me add here, if you are a moaner and a groaner you will not see through the bushes.
You will not step toward the bushes, you will just look at them and figure out how to get over them.
A confident man will stride up to them and pull them apart to see what is behind them, see how thick they are, how wide they are.
He will arm himself with more information.
He will process more information and determine the best course of action.
The result, one is taking a leap, not knowing what is waiting on the other side.
The other knows exactly what is on the other side and takes a course of action that avoids any potential dangers.
He arms himself with information BEFORE taking a risk.
On a football field the confident player will look for a pass, a difficult pass others won't attempt.
Fans will moan when it doesn't come off,but better a player try and unlock a defence than just pass sideways and pass the buck.
Humans look for the easiest route, the easiest route is a 9-5 job.
There are a few, and it is a few, who love what they do so rise in their profession with the safety net of employment, these folk who go the extra mile and stand out.
I had a lovely morning out in the old High Street in Hythe on Thursday morning with a nice apricot and raisin scone (take note Viv) without sugar so diabetic friendly.
Why are there no speciality diabetes shelves in supermarkets, shops or restaurant menus?
It is an untapped niche where someone with vision and drive could really make a name for themselves, carve out a local niche.
You'd get free advertising from the press and you could market yourself through diabetes organisations in your area.
Diabetes is a growing market.
Anyway, enough of making someone else a fortune, but to my tea and delicious scone.
I was looking around at the buildings, not the two rather attractive ladies that went past while I was there for three quarters of an hour and saw some solid old wood shutters.
Now I have a solution based mind, I see something I'll come up with a solution for it.
Ideas I have pouring out of me.
If I look at something I can see lots of different things in it that I wouldn't have seen when I was young, I hadn't developed that talent, that skill yet.
Art critics see all sorts in a painting.
I can do that with pictures, the sky, clouds, plants, anything, partly because of blurred vision on occasions, the objects look totally different to me, a light for instance is a huge cartwheel, that's what I see.
But I can sit and contemplate as I did with these shutters.
I looked at them and saw them open so the window has full view, but when shut, you'd only see through the middle of the window.
A confident person looks at the world with shutters open so he see more than the negative person who has the shutters closed.
Well isn't that how Spurs fans look at Spurs?
Isn't that how a confident person and a negative person differ?
These shutters were horizontal slats just quarter window size, so when shut just stopped peripheral vision, not the simple vision straight ahead.
The field of vision is restricted to a negative person.
They are mentally restricted.
But the confident person with the shutters open has the extra peripheral vision.
They see more of the battlefield.
They can thus make more informed decisions, which they will make quicker and more decisively.
Tough work dreaming up new articles!
The sugar-free cherry and raisin scone on Saturday was delicious too.
I had a lovely morning out in the old High Street in Hythe on Thursday morning with a nice apricot and raisin scone (take note Viv) without sugar so diabetic friendly.
Why are there no speciality diabetes shelves in supermarkets, shops or restaurant menus?
It is an untapped niche where someone with vision and drive could really make a name for themselves, carve out a local niche.
You'd get free advertising from the press and you could market yourself through diabetes organisations in your area.
Diabetes is a growing market.
Anyway, enough of making someone else a fortune, but to my tea and delicious scone.
I was looking around at the buildings, not the two rather attractive ladies that went past while I was there for three quarters of an hour and saw some solid old wood shutters.
Now I have a solution based mind, I see something I'll come up with a solution for it.
Ideas I have pouring out of me.
If I look at something I can see lots of different things in it that I wouldn't have seen when I was young, I hadn't developed that talent, that skill yet.
Art critics see all sorts in a painting.
I can do that with pictures, the sky, clouds, plants, anything, partly because of blurred vision on occasions, the objects look totally different to me, a light for instance is a huge cartwheel, that's what I see.
But I can sit and contemplate as I did with these shutters.
I looked at them and saw them open so the window has full view, but when shut, you'd only see through the middle of the window.
A confident person looks at the world with shutters open so he see more than the negative person who has the shutters closed.
Well isn't that how Spurs fans look at Spurs?
Isn't that how a confident person and a negative person differ?
These shutters were horizontal slats just quarter window size, so when shut just stopped peripheral vision, not the simple vision straight ahead.
The field of vision is restricted to a negative person.
They are mentally restricted.
But the confident person with the shutters open has the extra peripheral vision.
They see more of the battlefield.
They can thus make more informed decisions, which they will make quicker and more decisively.
Tough work dreaming up new articles!
The sugar-free cherry and raisin scone on Saturday was delicious too.
Dream, hope, plan, desire produce results, wishing does not.
When you desire something obsessively, then you'll achieve it.
Faith - if you don't believe you can achieve something, then you can't, you're subconscious will actually stop you.
You have to totally believe you can achieve your goal or you are wasting your time.
You will NEVER achieve it without totally believing you can.
Look how many of our fans who don't believe, who have no faith.
Mourinho has absolute faith, which others see as arrogance, it isn't it is just a winning mindset that is different to those who lack it.
That's why we get abused.
You can achieve what you think you can achieve, faith removes all the barriers.
Give me 11 players with the right mindset and Spurs will have a trophy even if they are not the best players.
Feed your subconscious and the path to your goal will be revealed.
This is why you set a goal, write it down and say it out loud to instill it in your subconscious.
That will then produce solutions.
It will increase the desire too.
That has to be translated to a team in this instance, so how do you do that?
Do you really need me to tell you again?
Yep, those pesky sports psychologists.
No point one or two of the players having that total belief and faith if the others don't.
Unfortunately that is the situation we find ourselves in.
So Mourinho has to try and pick up players with the right mentality and interviews suggest that Pierre-Emile Højbjerg is one such player.
When harry Kane first broke into the team under Sherwood very late in the season, I wrote then that Emmanuel Adebayor needed his mindset, that Spurs players needed his mindset.
Unfortunately, to my eyes,we haven't surrounded him with that same mindset, hence we have bottled it when the pressure is on on the biggest occasions.
Knowledge and learning come next.
You learn what you need to learn and surround yourself with the experts you need in other areas, so you know where to turn when you need the knowledge you don't have.
The last thing you do is surround yourself with negative people, if you want success they should have no part in your life, apart from helping up.
If they don't want help, cut them out.
On Twitter that means blocking them, they don't understand of course, they don't have the mentality of success, but constant negativity will stop you.
Learning new things should never stop,everyone should have learnt a new skill during lockdown, added new knowledge, not had a holiday and watched TV.
Red people, read.
Imagination - I love this one.
The successful person can visualise their success, they see where they live, who with, their lifestyle and how they earn their money.
That last one is a bit of a key, they can see how they earn their money, through what channels when they look into it deeper as their subconscious has already worked it out for them.
Once a person achieves success then it is just a question of scaling it or duplicating it as Amazon have done.
They created a system and with a successful delivery system simply added other products,sell a few of a lot of products instead of lots of a few products.
That formula has made them the biggest Internet-based in the world, they started selling music and videos in 1988.
If you can imagine it, you can create it said Hill over a century ago and that still stands.
Ideas fuel the imagination, thus if you lose the quest for answers, for ideas you lose imagination, you limit yourself.
Negative people are actively limiting themselves, would you want to take advice from someone who limits themselves or from someone open to ideas and thus an active imagination?
Write down your ideas, you will forget them and importantly, write down your plans, don't keep them all in your head.
Organisation and Planning.
When he sends his scouting team to find out about a player, he goes into great detail.
Put yourself in his shoes,a winners shoes.
Do you think he starts researching when a transfer window starts to round who he would like?
Companies like Wyscout make this easier now, but for every position he has files and files on players that fit his system.
I have highlighted before (2 months ago), 11 strikers, 18 right-backs and over 25 centre-backs and I can't remember how many left-backs we are constantly watching.
Mourinho has done his research on them all, he'll have a file for each one.
He sits down with Daniel Levy, they discuss what the budget is and Mourinho produces a list for each position that are the type of player he wants than fit our financial profile for each position.
We will be happy to spend higher wages on a striker than a right-back for instance.
Daniel Levy works the jigsaw magic to make it happen.
We might move to a different target if we spend more than expected on a striker for instance.
If you remember the piece on our finances, there was £50/60m and not all of that would go in transfer fees.
Sell KWP, buy Højbjerg for basically £3m + £3m add-ons (£4m if we win something).
Daniel Levy seems to have found someone in Mourinho who thinks like he thinks, they both have winning mentalities and thus are misunderstood.
From the outside I think they dovetail well and I think Mourinho is going to surprise a few people who have written him off prematurely.
Once you have your plans it is action time and that means action with persistence regardless of what obstacles appear in your path as they inevitably will, like losing Kane to injury against Manchester City and battling like fury to get to a Champions League Final.
The ability is there, but the focus was lost for a while, I see it returning but there is further to go mentally,we are scratching the surface really in terms of what we could do.
We have started to improve, now we need the persistence to continue to strive to improve, which I'm sure we will see next season.
Successful people make decisions quickly, once they have sufficient data, they don't procrastinate and mull over it.
Now here, fans will complain about Daniel Levy taking to long over everything but that is just negotiation to get a product at the right price for the club.
In this current climate clubs need money, they can't hold out for inflated fees, they need the reddies.
Levy can make a realistic offer, just as he did for Højbjerg and sit and wait.
We have other realistic offers on the table for Kim Min-jae for instance.
The offer we have made is the highest fee a defender would have ever gone for from the Chinese Super League, where most defenders are Chinese.
To wrap this post up, which has gone far past the mere confidence we started talking about persistence will win out.
Don't give up, just keep going, keep trying, keep learning and you efforts will improve until it all clicks together.
The season just finished was a learning curve for the guys, learning how Mourinho wants them to play and adapting to that.
Post lockdown showed the players are grasping it, yes there were downs, no upward curve is always upward, it has blips but the improvement was there to see, if you wanted to see it, alas, some didn't.
Let me leave you with this thought:
Positive emotions and negative emotions CAN NOT occupy the mind at the same time, therefore if you fill your mind with positive thoughts ( a success trait) you will achieve more than if you neglect your mind and let it fill with negativity.
Negativity is like vineweed, it's a bugger to get rid of because he keeps growing back, so don't let it.
See Spurs in a positive light, look for the positive, look for the why in everything, the real why not some imagined agenda driven why.
Spurs success depends on positivity.
The word Spurs should breed an air of positivity, that's the place the club need to get to, that's the place supporters should be taking it.
Have a great day folks, I will, I'm off to see my Daughter and Grandson.
COYS
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