Dear Chase,
I had a dream last night.
I was back in high school, and I was playing in the biggest soccer game of the year.
It was my school vs the rival school, and we were tied 2-2.
Clock is running down.
My teammate and I are running up the field, passing back and forth, flying by everyone.
Guys on the other team are falling over trying to keep up with us. It's a masterclass in passing.
We get all the way up the field on a little duo breakaway.
I pass it to him so he can take this game-winning shot.
He passes it back to me, and I immediately think "oh no, don't pass it to me. I don't want the pressure of having to take this shot. I'm not the most competent player on the field. I will mess this up."
I'm panicking.
I literally have a wide open net, but I'm panicking.
Of course, after having that thought, I kick it towards the goal…
And I air it.
It goes right past the post and out of bounds.
Pain.
I look like an idiot. The team counted on me and I blew it.
Huge L.
But here's the thing:
The only reason I missed that shot was because I told myself I would.
I basically manifested that I'd air it.
I did that to myself.
I put doubt in my head that became real.
The moral of the dream is that I didn't have to do that.
I missed the shot BECAUSE I said I would miss it.
The reality is, I don't think like that anymore.
When I was a kid playing soccer, those were the thoughts that would creep into my mind. I did not wanna have to be the one to take the game-winning shot, because I would convince myself that I was gonna miss it.
Nowadays, I have a ton of confidence in my ability to do pretty much anything…
BECAUSE of my self-talk before I take some sort of action.
My self-talk is always positive.
I always tell myself I can do stuff.
I always think that I'm the best option to do anything.
I always speak these types of things into the world.
And that is why I've had some decent success in copywriting, and generally in life.
I've learned that success starts in the mind.
It is imperative that you believe you can actually do something before you start to do it.
I remember when I first started doing outreach when I started copywriting.
When I started, I didn't really believe that it was a real thing. I was just going through the motions with my fingers crossed, hoping I hadn't been lied to about the idea of reaching out to business owners to pay me money.
But once I got my first reply to a cold email, I realized that this WAS a real thing, and I COULD do this.
I had conviction.
My self-talk was much more positive.
I knew that I was capable of making this work.
And a few weeks after I started thinking like that, I started getting paid for my work.
It was almost magic the way that I spoke it into existence.
My mentality literally dictated reality.
I watched it happen.
The lesson here is you can control your self-talk, and you self-talk can control your destiny.
And when you have a chance to take a game-winning shot (in any endeavor), you best believe that you're gonna put that thing right in the back of the net.
Yours truly,
Alex.
Sent from my Fox 40 whistle (they call me the referee cuz I be so official 🎶🎤)
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