Compartmentalisation and visualisation

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Compartmentalisation

Compartmentalisation is one of the hardest things for most people to do in a competition…unless, I suppose, if you were a sociopath. Many competitive shooters have Type A personalities and like everything to be perfect. Nothing is perfect; so how do you focus beyond that?

Imagine you’re at a match and it’s a beautiful day, you just got a promotion, you proposed to your girl and she said yes, you’ve been smashing your workouts, and you are dominating Modern Warfare this week. You feel satisfied, confident, you’ve been training hard, and you are ready to rock this match!

Sometimes our lives feel awesome and sometimes bad things happen that we have to focus through. Now imagine you showed up to a match like a bad country song. You lost your job, you’re going through a divorce, and your dog died. How do you set that aside to focus on the match?

This is one of the things that separates winners from losers, and goes hand-in-hand with how to deal with match pressure. It