by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
I perform better when I feel better. I can decide to feel better thereby improve my performance.<\/strong><\/p>\n Have you ever had the opportunity to (safely) crash someone else’s car? To spin the tires? To do a 180-degree spin? I had the good fortune to do that about 30 years ago. It was great fun (the story of the circumstances is too long for now).<\/p>\n I was in a class at the time of my car-crashing escapade. The car crashing occurred in the morning, and in the afternoon I was doing some skills tests. I did better on those tests than I ever did at all other times in my life. What’s more, everything I did the remainder of the day was easier than it was before.<\/p>\n Everything was easier than it was before. Wait a minute; how did that work? Was it possible to capture that moment and release it again when I wanted something to be easier? Had I discovered the secret formula to superior performance?<\/p>\n No, I didn’t. As much as I tried, I couldn’t recreate the feeling I had that day.<\/p>\n But, then again, yes, I did. I can feel “better” if I decide to do so. If I feel better, I work better, play\u00a0 better, and do everything better. I can capture the feeling of crashing cars and use that do to just about anything.<\/p>\n Sometimes, however, I forget what I have learned. I forget to feel better and do things better. Alas, such is the human condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips I perform better when I feel better. I can decide to feel better thereby improve my performance. Have you ever had the opportunity to (safely) crash someone else’s car? To spin the tires? To do a 180-degree spin? I had the good fortune to do that about 30 years ago. It was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,70,42],"tags":[171,190,164],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adapting","category-excuses","category-process","tag-adapting","tag-excuses","tag-process"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}