Baseball's spring training has started, and I love this time of the year ...
The sounds of the umpires making calls, bats cracking, and (some, socially distanced) fans cheering means that warmer weather and regular season baseball is right around the corner.
Lots of strange things happened in the shortened 2020 season, but one that really surprised me was the Miami Marlins making the playoffs.
At the beginning of the year everyone wrote off the Marlins. They had one of the lowest payrolls in the majors, few "stars" to carry the team, and to top it off a bunch of their players got COVID and their season had to be put on hold for eight days (which messed with their delicate routines and training schedules)
But instead of letting that stuff hold them back, the Marlins started back up and won seven out of eight games before eventually qualifying for the playoffs.
While everyone wrote the team off before the season even started, manager Don Mattingly and his players thought differently. He told Baseball Digest:
"I felt we were at an advantage going into the 60-game season. We were young. Our guys were enthusiastic. We had young pitching ... we believed that we were going to be a club that was going to be a lot better than people thought"
There's that word that I've been talking about a lot this week:
Belief.
Our beliefs can help us win, or (far too often) hold us back from achieving our goals.
If you're interested in learning a unique way of clearing limiting beliefs, join Lion Goodman and I for his live training next Tuesday, March 9th at 1 pm EST.
Step up to the plate and reserve your seat for it here:
Marc Mawhinney