60-Second Mind Shift: This mindset shift could change how you face your toughest moments
Supporting you to free your mind so you can live from your heart!
"Real champions are made under pressure."
— Carlos Alcaraz, 22-year-old French Open winner
It's my wish that this week's Mind Shift helps you to change how you face your toughest moments.
After his incredible French Open win this past week, Alcaraz said, “When the situations are against you, you have to fight and keep fighting. It’s a Grand Slam final. It’s no time to be tired. It’s no time to give up. It’s time to keep fighting, trying to find your moment, your good place again, and just go for it.”
My partner is an excellent tennis player, and while my own racket sport experience is limited to ping-pong, he’s gotten me very into watching professional tennis.
What draws me in most is not just the physical agility, but the mental fortitude it takes to play at that level. The way these players negotiate pressure, setbacks, and their own inner dialogue, moment by moment, point by point - is powerful to witness.
What I noticed over a few years watching these matches is that not all players handle repeated defeat well. Some crack: throwing rackets, yelling at the umpires, letting their emotions hijack them. But what I saw in Carlos Alcaraz was something else entirely.
In a five-and-a-half-hour battle, he and his opponent, Jannik Sinner, demonstrated incredible grit. Carlos faced triple match points (meaning he almost lost it all at 3 different points) and didn’t crumble. Where many might have fallen in defeat, he rose. He kept going, found his rhythm, and created a history-making comeback.
And it made me wonder:
What if we treated our lives like a Grand Slam final and gave it our all and played full out!
Look at your own life and ask yourself:
Are you playing to win and helping others to win too?
Or are you playing it safe, playing not to lose?
Are you all in? Or is your brain lulling you into resignation and passivity as it is designed to do?
Champions aren’t made in comfort. They’re forged under pressure. And with the state of the world, we need champions now. We need them on the front lines and we need them quietly living their best life with presence, joy and love.
So the next time everything feels stacked against you, ask yourself: “Who do I want to be in this moment?”
Is this the moment I give up? Or the moment I rise up?
Step By Step,
Jessie