When You Are Slightly Off Keel You Are At Your Best!

Surprise: When You Are Slightly Off Keel You Are At Your Best! I am sure I am not the first person to discover this powerful reality, but…You are poised to be at your best when you are slightly off center. The odd part about this surprise, is that we are taught all through our lives that just the opposite is true—that we have to land in the sweet spot before we can be successful. In another dimension of my journey, I was on a productive path of looking for positive benefits from negative events that were bothersome. I had read this so many times that I finally decided to try to apply it in my own life. The ultimate solution to turning failure into success is to begin to notice what you have been failing to notice all along—where you are and what you are doing there. This picture is a hard one to see, but you are always exactly where you need to be to get to the next stepping stone in your life (Like Oprah says in the opening quote). If you could step outside your own skin you could see that reality a little easier.

But you can’t. So what do you do in the meantime, • Look at yourself in the mirror and put your hand aligned flatly and perpendicular to the tip of your nose, dividing your face in half. If your eyes are very different, that is one strong clue. The sad part is they may have been this way a long time and you may have been here longer than you want to think. • Are you overwhelmed with unusual fear, anxiety, defensiveness and insecurity about a potential change in your life, Does your heart lean in one direction and your mind in another, Head-heart disagreements are another clue. The trouble is, following either is no guarantee of happy consequences, unless your expectations are open-minded. Then you can’t lose from winning. • Be brave and ask the significant others in your life. Are you perceived as being off keel and possibly ready to run a 8.5 100 yard dash or win an Academy Award, Other people can see where you are standing in life better than you can. Their perspective is more objective and they have less invested in it. If you are sensing that you might be off keel, it may be for a good reason. Good feelings confirm you are headed in the right direction, bad ones are trying to tell you to slow down and consider changing your course so you can return to feeling good again. But don’t get caught up in the illusion of the grass always being greener on the other side of the fence, because your course may just need a slight mental correction, not a major physical one. Put another way, you can get to the finish line quicker by doing two things simultaneously—running faster and bringing the finish line closer. You can have your cake and eat it too.

OK - switch to straddle, better completion of 180 on the switch - small bend adjustment on walkover - Phil basically had a relief embolism after she hit her last acro - sticks 1.5. They're still in it. When you're relieved by a beam 9.6. Georgia breaks 49 on beam. Tanya is on number duty, Oregon State goes 49.000 on floor. Georgia is winning after 1. Mission accomplished for Georgia, Giant double back from McKellar for Towson. All of those regionals that are supposed to start in 20 minutes need to take a cue from Athens and start late accordingly. Both Georgia and Oregon State are currently under their RQSs, but by about the same amount, so Georgia retains the edge there, and is now already done with beam, so that's a solid sign for Georgia. Pressure on Oregon State to pick up some tenths on vault now. We'll see what Arizona can do on floor now.

Rotation two here. Savona goes 9.850 on bars. Ricci - VT - highish on yfull - does pike rather a lot - hop forward. Cindric - FX - She's in instead of Edwards, 1.5 to layout, slightly whipped around, but fine. Mermelstein - good switch and straddle 1/4, solid - step back on three series to loso, avoids wobble. Wyrick - UB - great finish position on full turn - does well to hold it - flatter on tkatchev - solid vertical on bail, feet slightly imprecise - whippy DLO with a step back. Vault scores tight today. Not good for OSU so far. Jimenez - VT - full - off line and a larger step back - some form on the table. Priessman - UB - solid first hs - high tatchev into pak - eg break on pak, usual size - hitting hs - DLO is sort of a pike-open dismount - hop in place.