Stage 15 — Weekend Assignment: Catch One Phrase

Stage Title: Weekend Assignment — Catch One Phrase

Estimated Time: 5 minutes (plus weekend observation)

What You’ll Learn:

• How to catch one harmful phrase and replace it with one helpful phrase

• One phrase is enough

This weekend, during practice, a match, or reflection, catch one harmful phrase you say to yourself.

Examples:

• “I always do this.”

• “Here we go again.”

• “I can’t believe I missed that.”

• “I’m so bad.”

• “I knew I was going to mess up.”

Then, create one replacement phrase. Examples

: • Instead of “I always do this” → “Reset. Next point.”

• Instead of “Here we go again” → “One point at a time.”

• Instead of “I can’t believe I missed that” → “That one is over.”

• Instead of “I’m so bad” → “I’m struggling right now. I can compete through this.”

Write down: “The harmful phrase I caught was: _” “My replacement phrase is: _” Use the replacement phrase at least once this weekend.

Was it hard to catch the harmful phrase? Was it hard to remember the replacement?

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