Do you set and celebrate targets for yourself? At MITA International Brain Based Center, celebration of achievement is distinctive. Last week Ellen Weber and I were part of a foursome winning a trophy at the annual Rotary 7120 District Golf Tournament and Business Strategies published our article, Brain Based Strategies Propel Business.Why is celebration so important at MITA? Celebration of learning provides a sense of achievement in the culmination of the five MITA steps: Question, Target, Expect, Move and Reflect. How do these steps make a difference?
Ellen and I have golfed for a few years now and this was our first time to win a tournament. Past tournaments did not go well because one of the two of us fell into a “cortisol” spell and lost the easy flow required to keep our game at the top of our ability. By naming the problem and planning ahead, we could also overcome it. We discussed specific strategies to bring more serotonin to our game and to our team to enable quality play at the tournament.
Question: Each of us asked: “How can I bring more serotonin to my game when poor shots come?”
Target: Ellen: take my mind away from the immediate problem to picture my best golf shot and think I will do that next. Robyn: compliment each person on good shots and banter with other players to develop a sense of good will rather than focusing on times I “flub it up.” Both strategies focus on the positive. In past without realizing it, our minds began rehearsing a whole litany of what went wrong and how to correct it. We had the sense of focusing on good shots and just remembering the flow and enjoyment of these. It worked.
Expect: The benchmark for us was to stick to positives all the way both in our mind, talk and body language and to avoid negative thinking and rehearsing what went wrong. We wanted a score under par at the end of the tournament.
Move: includes using several of the eight intelligences to achieve our goal.
Reflect: “Where to from here?” How might you adjust to improve even more? Reflections lead us to keep learning and growing.Bodily kinesthetic: appropriate golf stance and swings based on past good performance. Positive body language especially when some shots do not go as expected.
Interpersonal: build a team sprit throughout tournament, by bantering and complimenting good shots
Intrapersonal: focus on positive shots and immediately take mind’s focus from any negative thinking since negatives destroy
Logical-mathematical: savvy choice of clubs for distance
Spatial: visualize positive results ahead of each shot. Dress well for the game since how you look often reflects in how you feel during an event
Musical: whistle a tune in your head after a few good shots and especially after a bad shot. Music can change your brain waves and actually bring more serotonin to your game.
Naturalistic: enjoy the beauty of the course. Take time to breathe it all in and enjoy the trees or birds and the sunshine. This brings well being.
Celebrate: We celebrated by publishing an article in Business Strategies and winning the trophy for the Rotary 7120 District tournament. What targets are you setting this year and how will you celebrate?
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