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Lose Like a Boss But Win More Padel Games
Do you find it difficult to get over a bad game or a loss? Do you rehash your performance over and over in your mind, beating yourself up over every little mistake? That’s normal, it’s human to feel negative emotions especially if you poured your all in that padel game and ended up losing. But you need to be able to let it go if you want to improve as a player. Here’s how:
If you keep replaying mistakes in your mind, it chips away at your confidence and interferes with your ability to perform to your capabilities in the next game. It is normal to be upset over a loss and mistakes. You shouldn’t feel that there is something wrong with you after you played less than your best.
You start asking yourself: “Why does this happen to me over and over again?”
We get into trouble when we don’t let go of the negative ideas and emotions that we have. When you begin to question your abilities to execute in the current situation.
If you have prolonged negative emotions after losing games, this becomes a mental burden that will weigh you down and interfere with your future games. Of course, no athlete wants to remind themselves of mistakes, but if you don’t take proactive steps to “let go” of bad games, you are doomed to repeat those same mistakes in future games.
Letting go of the past is not simply a matter of forgetting the last game. Letting go requires that you make a conscious choice where to place your focus.
By allowing the past to occupy your present, you double your opposition in the next game. Not only will you be competing against the other team, but you will also be battling the negativity you created in your mind.
The goal is to focus on your next game with optimism. You want to assess your performance to improve your game but not dwell on mistakes and missed opportunities.
How to move forward after losing:
If you want to play your best in the present, you need to turn the page on the past. To move forward, see the past game as a footnote in yesterday’s newspaper. Imagine yourself flipping the papers of yesterday’s news and refusing to review what happened yesterday.
The key is to objectively assess your performance or statistics to develop a future practice plan–without dwelling on your shortcomings or losing.