{"id":2090,"date":"2011-06-30T09:49:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T09:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/?p=2090"},"modified":"2011-06-30T11:17:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T11:17:11","slug":"the-five-set-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/the-five-set-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;Five Set&#8217; Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2094\" title=\"Tennis Ball\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tball.png\" alt=\"Tennis Ball\" width=\"141\" height=\"144\" \/><em><strong>If you want to succeed y<strong>ou have to be ready for a five-set match.<\/strong><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><\/strong><\/strong>I&#8217;ve been researching what&#8217;s best described as the &#8216;beyond confident&#8217; mindset. I&#8217;m not talking arrogance or blindly optimistic here.\u00a0Rather, I mean the mindset that&#8217;s\u00a0best demonstrated by those who&#8217;ve survived the almost unsurvivable &#8211; <!--more-->weeks in the frozen wilderness of Alaska, months adrift at sea, or years marooned on remote islands. \u00a0It&#8217;s a mindset that is resilient, pragmatic and, while goal-oriented, is focused on what needs to be done in the present to make the next step happen.<\/p>\n<p>A small yet powerful example of part of that mindset was admirable demonstrated yesterday on Centre Court at Wimbledon. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat Roger Federer in a five-set match, and there&#8217;s the clue to the winning mindset &#8211; a men&#8217;s match at Wimbledon is FIVE sets. Although it can be won in three by a good player, if you step onto court only prepared for a three set match and you lose the first two, mentally it&#8217;s all over. Tsonga lost the first two sets, but instead of losing motivation and focus he turned the match around in the third set and went on to win.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you want to succeed, you have to be prepared for the full journey and the effort and focus that&#8217;s going to need &#8211; no shortcuts, cheats or giving up.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You have to be ready for a five-set match.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to succeed you have to be ready for a five-set match. I&#8217;ve been researching what&#8217;s best described as the &#8216;beyond confident&#8217; mindset. I&#8217;m not talking arrogance or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44,7],"tags":[18,48,26,49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2090"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2096,"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions\/2096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}