Rituals vs Routines
Rituals vs Routines
The definition of a pre-performance routine...
A sequence of systematic, task-related thoughts and actions.
Over the last 30 years and more...
Sports Psychologists have conducted numerous studies into what athletes do before they compete.
These studies generally show...
That people who use a well-conceived and consistent routine...
Perform better than those who don’t.
So, if you do the same thing before every game you will perform better.
But, each element needs a reason behind it.
Let's assume you put your left football sock on before your right.
It's routine, but meaningless.
However, if you scored a hat-trick when you put your left sock on first...
And every time you do so now reminds you of those feelings...
That puts you in a mental and emotional place where you are more likely to succeed...
So then it has an active purpose...
It sparks those same success emotions in you.
Harry Kane has a ritual before every penalty kick...
Cristiano Ronaldo has a ritual before every free-kick.
51 female students were asked to play a tilting board game, 36 loose balls into 36 holes.
Just before they began, the researcher told some of the girls: “I press the thumbs for you,” a German phrase meaning “I’m crossing my fingers for you.”
The fingers-crossed group performed the task much faster than the control group.
This demonstrates why you should be supporting the club rather than all the anti stuff.
Your good vibes, if you want to call them that, can make a difference.
Your job, if you actually want the club to win, unlike the WindyCoys of this world wanting us to lose, is to create a positive environment around the club.
You can impact actual performance by changing performance expectations and player confidence.
Why do I give you gardening advice?
Why do I give you simple things you can do with your young children?
To help them obviously, but, to give you a task where you can forget everything else, unwind.
Give the growing of simple window sill plants or vegetables or feeding the birds a little love and affection.
These simple rituals serve an inadvertent, but useful purpose, amid an insanely busy and deadline-driven world.
It forces you to take a quiet, reflective pause to catch your breath.
As Gandalf the Grey says (yes I know it's only a character, "Simple acts of love and kindness keep the darkness away."
It is a mindset.
The power of our minds and brains is massive, and modern medicine is just starting to recognize the effects of a positive attitude.
Studies by Harvard Business School professor Michael Norton showed that if you call a routine a ritual it has a greater impact than if you don't.
There seems to be something about rituals that reduces anxiety and helps you do a little better.
Rituals increase people’s consumption of event experience by increasing their involvement in it.
It is why restaurants engage in wine bottle-opening at the table and tasting regimens when serving wine with a meal.
It's to involve you in the process even if you haven't a clue what you are tasting, you still go along with it don't you.
You have a better feeling, you feel as if you have taken part in something that just increases your dining experience, but makes you feel like you are more important, that you are in a more up-market environment.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Be lucky, COYS
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