{"id":6819,"date":"2023-01-19T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/?p=6819"},"modified":"2023-01-18T17:48:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T22:48:42","slug":"when-it-matters-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/when-it-matters-more","title":{"rendered":"When It Matters More\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As I was watching a couple of the NFL playoff games this weekend it struck me that these are usually some of the <\/span><b>best games of the season<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6822\" src=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/american-football-1851168_1920-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/american-football-1851168_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/american-football-1851168_1920-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/american-football-1851168_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/american-football-1851168_1920-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/american-football-1851168_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/>As I thought about it and started to wonder why these games are usually close and really good games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All the games in a season matter.\u00a0 The winning and losing determine if you even make it to playoffs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the playoffs, <\/span><b>every game<\/b> <b>is lose and your season is over<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Win and you move on to play in the next game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ask yourself\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you <\/span><b>push a little harder <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">when you risk more?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you sometimes find yourself \u201cgoing through the <\/span>motions\u201d instead of <b>doing your best and giving your all<\/b>?<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you more committed when you know there is <\/span><b>no <\/b><b>safety net<\/b>?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are players who game statistics are a lot better in big games that mean something than in regular games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s probably <\/span><b>not a conscious decision<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that we make \u2013 to play harder or to be better when it\u2019s a must win.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s just <\/span><b>human nature<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And sometimes the pressure of that can have the opposite affect \u2013 we perform worse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What happens to you?<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Do you rise to a new level under pressure, or do you shrink?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All of us need some help\/assistance\/coaching to get to the top of our game.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remember, athletes train by putting themselves under pressure a lot, to they have a sense of what will happen when they feel pressure in a game or real-life situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Do you?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To Your Success \u2013\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4638 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/dianesig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"159\" height=\"106\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was watching a couple of the NFL playoff games this weekend it struck me that these are usually some of the best games of the season. As I thought about it and started to wonder why these games are usually close and really good games. All the games in a season matter.\u00a0 The&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style:italic; text-align:right; font-family:Georgia;\" class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/when-it-matters-more\"class=\"readmore red-clr underline\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":6822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[599],"tags":[29,196,13,10,30,708,1185],"class_list":["post-6819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-general","tag-business","tag-coaching","tag-complete-marketing-systems","tag-diane-conklin","tag-entrepreneur","tag-articles-marketing","tag-top-level-performance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6823,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6819\/revisions\/6823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}