All the Best

I saw a heading recently and I saw it in a completely different way to what I normally see it.  It was “what you see is what you get.”  I normally think of that in terms of whatever is on display is what is available.  There will be no surprises.  No additions.
Yet this time I saw it as what I picture is what is possible.  Sorta like the old saying, “think you can, think you can’t - either way, you’ll be right.”
It was a great reminder to me that what I fill my mind or life with is what I attract.  If I always put myself down and insist I am no good then I am likely to pursue a self-fulfilling prophecy.  I have experienced it time and time again that circumstances work to make what I expect happen.
Of course this is not dealing with the things that come out of the blue but even then how I see myself and the world can effect the outcome of random events.  Often people do heroic things but rarely is it an act of total surprise and out of character.  Very often investigation shows that the perpetrator of the act had been heroic in mind many times previous and when the time came to be heroic in reality it was not an untrodden road.
It seems to be why many coaches encourage visualization these days.  I have seen it work.  Someone learns the right way to do something, muscle memory is practiced and winning is lived in the mind.  
That does not guarantee a win but it definitely increases the chances.  So often the difference between winning and losing is one percent.  It is the working on the one percents like picturing a win that encourages winning.
I will never forget that when Greg Norman was ahead in the US Open (I think it was).  It was considered there was no way his nearest rival could pull off the shot required to win.  Yet his caddy said to him “you can do this.  You have been here before.”  Winning is the goal kicker staying back after practice to practice goal kicking from all sorts of angles.  It is the golfer practicing shots from the rough or the bunker long after others may have retreated to more comfortable surroundings.
Greg Norman’s rival made the shot.  To me it was a shot that defied belief.  Yet he believed.  He had been there before both in practice and in his mind.
I happen to believe “what I see is what I get.”  That is why I am prepared to pray for, believe, imagine the best.  Maybe the best will not always result, but it can never be said I was not doing all I could to make it happen.