{"id":6872,"date":"2017-10-30T04:45:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T11:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/?p=6872"},"modified":"2017-09-03T12:10:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T19:10:41","slug":"is-setting-a-goal-of-beating-my-competitors-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/is-setting-a-goal-of-beating-my-competitors-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Q: Is setting a goal of beating my competitors wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Q<\/strong>: “I’m a big fan, and believer, in your ‘mental game’ stuff, but I’m struggling with one thing! I totally get it that we should focus on our own performance and not that of others, based on the fact that one we have influence over (ourselves) and the other (our competitors) we don’t. BUT, if I make a goal to beat an individual competitor\/team (or indeed, all of them; i.e., win a race\/championship), am I making a mistake by focusing on the performance of others?”<\/p>\n

A<\/strong>: There is a big difference between setting a goal of beating another competitor\/team (or winning a race\/championship), and focusing on them. One is a goal that is in the future, and the other is right here and now. Focusing on beating another driver means that is your right now, and that will take away from your performance \u2013 it\u2019s likely you\u2019ll not perform at your best because your focus is on someone\/something else, and not something you can control.<\/p>\n

So, it\u2019s okay to have a goal of beating others. Hey, you probably wouldn\u2019t be racing if you didn\u2019t want to win! One could even argue that is why we race \u2013 to compete against, and beat, others. But the best way to do that is to perform at your very best, at your peak. And when you focus on others \u2013 your competition \u2013 you rarely perform at your best. Usually, you get caught up in either copying what others are doing, or being distracted by them. And that results in performing at less than your best.<\/p>\n

When you focus on your own performance, you\u2019re more likely to perform at your best \u2013 and more likely to beat your competition.<\/p>\n

Go ahead and set a goal. Then focus on what you have to do to accomplish that goal \u2013 how you need to perform, and what do you need to do to make it happen.<\/p>\n

I explain this further in my Inner Speed Secrets 201 eCourse (https:\/\/Learn.SpeedSecrets.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Q: “I’m a big fan, and believer, in your ‘mental game’ stuff, but I’m struggling with one thing! I totally get it that we should focus on our own performance and not that of others, based on the fact that one we have influence over (ourselves) and the other (our competitors) we don’t. BUT, if I make a goal to beat an individual competitor\/team (or indeed, all of them; i.e., win a race\/championship), am I making a mistake by focusing on the performance of others?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-ross"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6872"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6876,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions\/6876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}