| Author: Bob Rowland | Title: What are YOU thinking?? |
| Date: 2004-09-16 00:31:07 | Uploaded by: webmaster |
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What are "YOU" thinking?? This article is one I had to ask myself if it
should be revealed! In my opinion, this is perhaps the biggest secret of
racing pigeons successfully. I believe our thought process is a big part
of any success we have.
This thought process will not deal with any method other than what we
think! More importantly is the issue of whether we are doing the
thinking about what we are doing or have we been psyched out by what
others are doing and we react WITHOUT THINKING.
The most important thing we must do is to observe our pigeons and do
what we think and what experience has shown us is necessary to have our
birds at the top of their game. If we merely go through motions because
someone else is doing something, then we are already beaten. One must
always keep our head IN OUR GAME ONLY!!
Living in Spring Hill, Florida makes it virtually impossible to not see
another competitor doing something with their pigeons. This is an hourly
occurrence simply because we are so close to each other. If we get
caught trying to make everything a contest without looking at our
pigeons, and react based on what our neighbor is doing, then our
competitors have gotten into our head and we will make many foolish
mistakes.
One must NEVER act because they are trying to keep up with what someone
else is doing. It gets very difficult to ignore things when you see a
very successful person doing something that appears to be well in
advance of where we are at. However, if that person jumped off the roof,
would we be as quick to follow? What they are doing is what they believe
is necessary to win and yet, our competitor may be concerned about what
someone else is doing. If they make a mistake, and we try to stay in
front of them, we may be making a bigger mistake that can have long term
repercussions.
To be successful means that we must make the least amount of mistakes! I
am not the creator of this statement but I am a messenger of the message
and believe in it greatly. If we constantly make blunders and then try
to patch the problem we create, we will never have the success that
could be ours.
So how do we avoid making mistakes?? The answer is to keep our mind and
our thoughts solely on what we observe with our own pigeons. If we are a
real pigeon racing champion, then odds are we spend many hours observing
our pigeons. That is what one should do as our knowledge and experience
should show us what our birds need to be at their best. If we spend our
time watching someone else and then act without knowing what our pigeons
need, we are beaten.
Keeping our mind and our thoughts on our pigeons only should keep us
from making foolish mistakes. However, this is not to say that there are
not things to learn from others. Unless we are the champion of our
competition, there are always things to learn. Even the greatest of
champions do not have all the knowledge. What we know would fit into a
water glass and yet the principles and rules of nature are as large as a
lake. Understanding this principle tells us a drinking glass can only
contain a small portion of the knowledge and rules. If we allow the
glass to sit without refreshing the water, then it will probably turn
green and not be healthy for us. The same is true of our knowledge. WE
MUST CONSTANTLY BE LEARNING!! THE RULES OF NATURE HAVE NOT CHANGED BUT
WE ARE LEARNING MORE OF WHAT THE RULES ARE WITH EACH NEW DAY.
One must always remember that a clock that is stopped is still perfectly
correct at least once per day. (On military or European time, the clock
is a 24 hour clock) How accurate that time is will depend on how we use
our senses to determine if this moment seems or feels like the time the
clock is showing. We must look for indicators of what we believe it to
be. Odds are one will not be right but we must learn to develop our
senses so our thoughts take us as close to the proper time and once we
learn this, we are closer to success.
Any game we play depends on how we handle our self and specifically, how
we fix our mistakes. If we make very few mistakes and even if we do make
some, how quickly we correct the problem will determine how much we will
win. To be successful, we must always be in charge of our own destiny.
If others are determining what we do, then they are in charge of the
game. One can not beat another if they are making the rules. If someone
else is playing their game and also playing ours, then odds are they
will not allow us to have better results. Only we should determine our
destiny.
In conclusion, always be observant of what our pigeons need and follow
the plans that have given us success in the past. Do all that we can to
have our pigeons as perfect as possible and then if we do not have good
success, then we need to look in the mirror for our problem. We are
responsible for everything that takes place in our lofts. If our pigeons
are not good enough, who is at fault? If they are not as healthy as they
could be, who is at fault? If they are not in their best condition to
race well, who is at fault? Everything we do in our loft is our
responsibility and if we are not satisfied with our results, a change is
necessary!
KEEP YOUR HEAD IN YOUR GAME AND GOOD LUCK!!!
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