Latest / Mental Per4mance Daily with Adam Rutz / Use A End Of Day Reset
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- Adam Rutz: You don't get to carry yesterday into today. One of the best things that sports teaches you is how quickly you have to move on. Whether you win or you lose, whether you have the game of your life or whether you play absolutely terrible. Either way, eventually the day has to end. When I was playing baseball, we would always look at it like this. Once the game was over, we could think about it. We could evaluate what went well. We could be excited about a great game. And if we played poorly, we could be pissed off about it. But once we showered, changed out of our uniform, and put our street clothes on, it was over. That was the signal. Because reflection is productive. Rumination is not. There's a big difference between learning from what happened and continuing to emotionally relive what happened. If you played poorly, identify why. What can you learn? What needs to improve? What do you need to do differently tomorrow? Then close the book. And the same thing applies when you win. Enjoy it. Be proud of it. Learn from what worked. But you don't get to spend the next three days celebrating yesterday either. Because yesterday's win doesn't execute today's responsibilities for you. That's what elite performers understand. They don't live in the past and they don't spend all day worrying about what might happen in the future. They stay where performance actually happens right now. So create your own end-of-day rule. Maybe when you leave the office, maybe when you finish your workout or close your laptop, whatever the trigger is, use it as a mental reset. Ask yourself, what went well? What needs work? What did I learn? Or well better how? What did I do well? What can I do better? How can I do it better? Then move on. You can learn from yesterday without living there. Because winners are always preparing for the next pitch, the next play, the next call, the next opportunity. Reflect, learn, reset, then get back to the present. Mindset, process, discipline, execution. That's mental performance daily.