How to Do the Best You Can Possibly Do

Tony Robbins makes a comment on how to get someone to do the absolute best they are capable of in any function, any sport, any situation. The method he refers to is NLP, or Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

It involves your personal physiology, as the famous early-twentieth century psychologist William James said, "thought follows action, and action follows thought." One follows the other. If you put yourself into the physiology (the actual action of the situation, in other words, the muscular postioning or movements of the body) of the best that you ever did when remembering a situation, you can repeat it.

For instance, to a basketball player who's not doing so well at free throws, one could say, "do you remember the best free throw shot you ever made?" In a moment, he would say, 'why yes.'

If one can remember the best they did in any situation, one could put themselves mentally back into that environment, and physically too. Stand they way you would stand if it were your best free throw. Make your face look the way it would look if it was your best free throw shot. Feel the way you would feel if it was your best free throw ever. Put yourself mentally into the postion you were in, by imitating the physiology exactly the way you would be in doing the best free throw, and you can do it again. And again and again.

Perform this with any situation; golf, a business deal, a workout, preparation for a test or an exam, any sports situation, complete confidence in a meeting, asking out one of the opposite sex you admire a great deal, and hundreds of other situations. Try it.

Greg Mangan
"VRT Man"