FearlessTennis is about feeling nerves, physical tension, and even having moments of indecision, and still finding the courage to hit the ball the way you know you can. Being “fearless” is all about choosing to play your game and hitting through the ball with less attachment to the outcome. This path, while incremental in most cases, will eventually free you up to play the best tennis of your life. I have created FearlessTennis and this blog to help you tap into your best days, feel looser under pressure, find gratitude along the way for each moment on the court. I hope that when you lay your racquet down one day that you can honestly say that you chose to play on your terms, without regret.
Fearless Tennis makes a significant contribution to helping players reach their potential by off-court preparation for on-court performance.
When one performs without the paralyzing effects of fear, one does not play with reckless abandonment but, instead, with controlled abandonment. It’s like the well-known verse:
Work like you don’t need the money.
Love like you’ve never been hurt.
Dance like no-one’s watching.
Sing like no-one’s listening.
Live like there’s no tomorrow.
Fear like a stone.
William Shakespeare, in “Measure for Measure”, Act 1 scene 4, reminds us that:
Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.
The Reverand Jesse Jackson put it this way:
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
One of the greatest thinkers, and inspirational men of our time, Earl Nightingale, said that “we become what we think about.”
Fearless Tennis reminds those of us who step on the court that whatever we think, we’re right.