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Hello and welcome to Pickleball Therapy.

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My name is Tony Roig,

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and I'm glad to be with you this week.

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Today we take another step along our mental Pickleball journey,

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whether it's your Pickleball sanity,

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wanting to play calmer,

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more focused Pickleball,

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a desire to improve,

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or any combination of these or podcast is designed with you

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in mind.

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My goal today is to share with you a way of

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looking at Pickleball that will help you have a positive and

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healthy relationship with the sport we all love.

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Today, we're gonna be talking about something that is very timely

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because it's around the new year.

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We're talking about goals and how to use goals in a

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more positive and constructive fashion.

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Now, I know that goals can happen anytime during the year.

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We can have goal set goals and,

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and modify goals,

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things like that.

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But usually at the beginning of the year is when everybody's

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focused on goals.

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So today's a good time to talk about goals and again,

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how to use them more positively in your Pickleball.

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Before we dive into the main subject today,

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a couple of quick announcements.

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Number one,

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the academy.

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Our our academy is gonna be launching this spring beyond the

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lookout for Academy courses.

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We already have a few up.

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If you wanna check 'em out at you,

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go to better Pickleball dot com and you'll see our list

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of classes there.

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We have on Enforce Airs class.

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That's really good class.

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Got a lot of good feedback on that one.

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And on our partner play class,

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we had versions of that class last year during Black Friday,

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and we now have them in a full course inside our

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Better Pickleball Academy.

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So make sure you check those out.

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And if you're in the need for shoes,

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I know the new year,

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hopefully you got some shoes for Christmas,

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but if you didn't,

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our friends at Tyro have some new shoes that just came

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out, the SMASH shoes.

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I'm still waiting to try 'em,

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but I can tell you that the ones that I use,

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the, the,

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the, the,

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the Bali Drive,

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and I forget the name of the other one right now,

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but the,

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the Tyro shoes that I use are excellent shoes,

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and I'm sure the smash is no different.

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And if you want to check those out,

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I'll put a link in the show notes to get you

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a discount.

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It's also an affiliate code that helps support our podcast.

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And as we get into the podcast,

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if you have a minute to rate and review the podcast,

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we certainly appreciate that it's helpful to other players like you

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who may benefit from the content of this podcast.

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They'll have a higher chance of coming across this information if

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you've, if it's been rated and reviewed by other listeners such

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as yourself.

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All right,

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let's dive into goals in depth and talk about goals and

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how to use them constructively,

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how to use 'em in a more healthy fashion.

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Now, it's,

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there's nothing wrong with having goals.

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Goals are a fine thing.

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The problem that can arise sometimes when as Pickleball players is

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in how we frame out our goals.

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And, and there's ways to framing out goals that can lead

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us to frustration.

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So what we wanna do first is let's talk about how

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we frame our goals.

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we always talk about framework and framing in,

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in both in our podcast as well as in our teachings

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on in our Better Pickleball Academy,

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as well as a Pickleball system.

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So framing's always gonna speak where we're gonna start everything from.

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start talking about how we're going to define our goal.

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That's really important because when we set a goal,

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what we're trying to do is measure against it,

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right? The reason to set a goal is to say,

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okay, did I accomplish a goal or not accomplish a goal?

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Otherwise, the goal is irrelevant.

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So how we define the goal is gonna be key to

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whether it works for us and whether it helps us avoid

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potential problems later down the line.

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And the key here is to understand the difference between long-term

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goals and short-term goals,

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because we need to keep those two separate and avoid confusion

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between them,

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because each operates in a very different sphere.

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Short-term goals are about the,

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now they're very,

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they're finite.

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They have a finite measurement to them,

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and a finite time to them.

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Example, I wanna be able to hit 20 dinks in a

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row without making a mistake,

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right? Without missing a,

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a shot.

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That is a short term goal that can be measured.

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I can take steps to accomplish it,

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and I can know when I have reached that goal.

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I I'm able to hit 20 dinks in a row without

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Long-term goals are different.

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'cause long-term goals are about always remember short-term goals are,

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goals are about now they're finite.

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Long-term goals are about the always,

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they're, they're infinite,

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right? They're just something that sticks with us during our Pickleball

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journeys or Pickleball careers,

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if you want to call it that.

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It's, there are things like,

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I want to become a better player.

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I want the respect of my peers,

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of my other players at the courts.

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I want to improve as a Pickleball player.

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Those are infinite kind of goals.

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Those are goals that have no real finish line to them.

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You can measure steps along the way.

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Sure, right?

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You can set up short term or medium term if you

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prefer goals along the way,

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but you can't really measure the,

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the, the entire thing by becoming a better player because there's

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no finished product to measure,

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right? As long as you're alive and wanna play Pickleball and

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grow, then you're gonna always have something to work towards.

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So there's never a finish line that you get to and

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say, you know what?

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I have arrived,

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in this long-term goal of becoming an improved player or a

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better player.

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As an example at best,

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which you can tell is that today I'm more proficient than

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I was yesterday and tomorrow.

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Hopefully I'll understand the game a little bit better than I

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do today.

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But there's nowhere to arrive at it.

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It's really important to,

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to get our arms around this idea that there is no

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finish line in terms of our Pickleball improvement journey.

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Our Pickleball improvement paths have no stopping point as long as

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we continue to want to grow.

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As long as you continue to remain curious,

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as long as you continue to remain interested in knowing more

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about Pickleball and growing as a Pickleball player,

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you'll always have something to learn.

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finish line can lead you to potential frustration.

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What happens is you start applying finite thinking to an infinite

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situation, and there's this whole concept about playing finite game versus

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infinite game.

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in a different podcast,

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but you can apply that to your learning process as well.

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The example I gave earlier about 20 dings,

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you can think about the same thing in terms of,

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my objective is to become a 2.5

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rated player,

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or my objective is to play competitively in a 3.5

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tournament, something like that.

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Those are short-term goals that you can play in a tournament.

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say that you,

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you made it to the middle of the field,

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you're competitive.

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So you played a competitive tournament at 3.5,

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accomplishing your short-term goal.

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when we think about ourselves as Pickleball players,

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right? The more infinite view of ourselves,

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the more long-term lens or view of ourselves,

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what we're replying is we're replying an infinite lens to,

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or an infinite perspective to what we're doing and our game.

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and apply finite thinking to it,

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right? When we try and say to ourselves,

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or when we say to ourselves something like,

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I'm just not getting better.

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I'm just not improving.

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Or, or When am I gonna get there?

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When am I gonna,

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when am I gonna arrive?

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Right? There is no to arrive.

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And if you're asking the other questions like,

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when am I going to improve?

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When am I getting better?

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My guess is you're getting better.

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Now, if you're doing anything positively towards your game,

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including listening to this podcast,

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you're taking a positive step forward in your game,

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you are better than you would've been had you not done

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it. Because here's the,

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lemme give you a little tricky thing that you can do

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when you're tricky thing that can happen to you when you're

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thinking about yourself and your improvement,

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is we compare ourselves to some idealized version of ourselves.

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but we,

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we, I compare ourselves to an idealized version of ourselves that

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isn't reality.

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The reason it's not reality is because we don't have a

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control to measure it against.

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Let's assume that yesterday you played and you played the best

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you've ever played,

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and you play in a week,

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and you don't play as well as you did last,

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you know,

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yesterday, right?

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So yesterday is the best you've ever played.

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It's your high watermark,

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and in a week you don't play as well.

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What you're gonna do is you may say to yourself,

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you know what,

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I'm, I'm,

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I'm not getting as,

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I'm not improving as something's happened.

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But what you don't know is what would've happened to you

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next week,

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right? Had you not put in the work in the intervening

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seven days,

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right? Had you not done what you've done in the intervening

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seven days,

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you might have played worse.

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In other words,

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you played amazing yesterday,

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you didn't play great a week from now,

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right? But you could've played worse a week from now had

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you not done the things like,

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listen to this podcast,

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think about the game,

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watch a watch a video inside the Pickleball system and study

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it. Do a little bit of drilling.

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Whatever you did,

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you'd never know what could have happened otherwise,

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right? In terms of your performance moving forward.

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I think it's clear to know that it,

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or it,

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it's, it's easy to conclude,

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that if you're putting in the work,

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you are making forward progress in your game.

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The difficulty is measuring it because you're,

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you're dealing in an infinite situation.

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How good am I as a player relative to what I

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could have been as a player?

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is an infinite kind of a thought.

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It's very difficult to measure,

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possible to measure,

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yourself, big picture in terms of your game that you're playing

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the infinite game,

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right? You're,

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you're in an infinite situation that is not capable of measurement.

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And the example that I'll give you as a,

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as a hopefully make you feel a little better about yourself

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and your game.

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Not example,

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but the,

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the, the,

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what I'll hold up as a,

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as a,

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as a comparison are the best pro players on the planet,

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the best pro players on the planet,

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the ones with all the medals,

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et cetera,

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continue to work on their game.

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Now, why would they continue to try and strive and get

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better and improve if they've already arrived,

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right? They're the best players on the planet.

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Why do they have to do anything?

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They've already gotten there,

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haven't they?

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To this finish line,

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this imaginary finish line that exists out there?

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No, because there is no finish line.

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And even the best players on the planet,

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the one with all the medals you could ever hope to

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get if you wanted to play tournaments,

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right? Know that there was always something to learn in this

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beautiful sport of Pickleball.

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And what I suggest that you start thinking about in terms

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of your journey as a player is not just understanding that

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it has no end,

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right? That there is no finish line for you to get

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to in this race.

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'cause it isn't a race.

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But is to understand,

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is to,

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is to embrace the foreverness of it,

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because that's one of the beauties of this sport.

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You will never exhaust this sport.

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You will never run out of things to do,

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to learn to get better at,

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to understand better about Pickleball.

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I can tell you as a player who's been playing for,

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oh, going on,

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going on,

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this will be my ninth year of play,

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I guess is doing the math.

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Eight or nine years of playing a long time,

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long enough to know that I know a lot about Pickleball,

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but I still have a lot more to learn about this

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awesome sport.

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So embrace the lifelong nature of your Pickleball learning journey of

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the, of the path that's in front of you.

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Because as long as you want to continue walking it,

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Pickleball will have something to teach you.

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So change your perspective.

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Be thankful for that ability to learn and keep growing.

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Understand that your long-term goal in Pickleball is an infinite goal.

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It's a goal that does not have a finish line,

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does not have a measurement to it.

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Understand that every time that you take one step forward in

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your game and another step forward in your game,

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that's awesome,

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right? You're gonna be able to look backward and say,

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okay, I've traveled in my game,

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right? What I said earlier,

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tomorrow I play better than today.

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Next week I understand the game better than I did last

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week, et cetera.

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So you make forward progress in your game,

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but there's not somewhere to get to.

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So don't think that you're behind,

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don't think that you're behind schedule anything like that because there's

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always gonna be somewhere else to move in your,

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in your Pickleball game.

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By keeping this kind of perspective on your,

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on your goals and your goal setting and your measurement of

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your goals,

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you'll be able to avoid potential frustration and potential stress with

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yourself about not doing the things or not getting to the

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places that somehow we think we should get to.

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Applying a finite,

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finite framing,

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which doesn't apply to an infinite situation.

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So, you know,

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this understanding this,

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this, this step in your process is another improvement in your

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mental Pickleball journey.

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As we walk this mental ball,

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mental Pickleball journey together,

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this is another step along that process.

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Now, if you ever feel like,

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if you ever feel like you've strayed from the path that

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we've embarked upon,

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right? This mental journey process,

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or if you need a little pep talk,

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we're gonna be here for you.

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These podcasts are designed to be here for you.

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We'll continue to produce these podcasts for you,

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but also remember that you can go back to a prior

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podcast or this one and listen to it again to get

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that lift that you need in your game to refocus you

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on your mental journey.

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And as always,

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if you know a player who could benefit from joining us

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along our mental journey path together,

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share this podcast with 'em.

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Remember, if you find the podcast useful,

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they probably will too.

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Keep enjoying the gift that is Pickleball and I'll see you

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next time.