An Olympic athlete explains how to stop letting one bad moment tank your whole day. He uses anchors—a word, a breath, a game—to reset his brain and stay present instead of spiraling over things he can't control.
The idea of acceptance, good or bad, being able to accept what is and what happened. Because I think a lot of times, especially, you know, in life as an athlete, you get caught up in things that have happened that you have no control over. That's, I feel like, where the depression side of things comes in, or you're anxious about something that's coming. So it's really that ability to accept things as they are and then move into the next present moment. It's moment by moment. You always have the next moment. I would have anchors Whether that's like a word or something that I do. Like at the Olympics, one of my things that really just calmed me, which is so funny, was just playing gin on my phone. I would throw in a meditation, present moment anchor, and that way it just, you really are just training your brain on how to really navigate those situations.
