What is Your Recovery Rate ?

By Graham Harris

What is your recovery rate? How long does it take you to recover from actions and behaviors that upset you? Minutes? Hours? Days? Weeks? The longer it takes you to recover, the more influence that incident has on your actions, and the less able you are to perform to your personal best. In a nutshell, the longer it takes you to recover, the weaker you are and the poorer your performance.

You are well aware that you need to exercise to keep the body fit and, no doubt, accept that a reasonable measure of health is the speed in which your heart and respiratory system recovers after exercise. Likewise the faster you let go of an issue that upsets you, the faster you return to an equilibrium, the healthier you will be. The best example of this behavior is found with professional sportspeople. They know that the faster they can forget an incident or missed opportunity and get on with the game, the better their performance. In fact, most measure the time it takes them to overcome and forget an incident in a game and most reckon a recovery rate of 30 seconds is too long!

Imagine yourself to be an actor in a play on the stage. Your aim is to play your part to the best of your ability. You have been given a script and at the end of each sentence is a full stop. Each time you get to the end of the sentence you start a new one and although the next sentence is related to the last it is not affected by it. Your job is to deliver each sentence to the best of your ability.

Don’t live your life in the past! Learn to live in the present, to overcome the past. Stop the past from influencing your daily life. Don’t allow thoughts of the past to reduce your personal best. Stop the past from interfering with your life. Learn to recover quickly.

Live in the present. Not in the precedent.

你的恢復速率是多少?

你的恢復速率是多少?你需要多長時間才能從讓你煩惱的行為中恢復?幾分鐘?幾小時?幾天?幾星期?你需要的恢復時間越長，那個事件對你的影響就越大，你也就越不能做到最好。簡言之，你的恢復時間越長，你就越軟弱，你的表現也就越差勁。

你充分意識到，要保持身體健康你需要鍛煉，并且你無疑會接受，你的心臟和呼吸系統在鍛煉后的恢復速度是衡量健康的一個合理尺度。同樣，你越快擺脫是你煩惱的問題，越快恢復平靜，你就越健康。此類行為的最好典范是專業運動員。他們知道，越快忘記一件事或失去的機會而好好比賽，他們的發揮就越好。實際上，大多數運動員會估量自己克服并忘記比賽中一個事件所需的時間，而且大多數人都認為30秒的恢復時間太長了!

想象自己是一位站在舞臺上的戲劇演員。你的目標是盡全力扮演好你的角色。你已經拿到了劇本，而劇本中的每句話都以句號結尾。每次你念到一個句子的末尾，你就會開始一個新的句子。盡管下一句和上一句有關聯，但并不受它的影響。你的工作是盡力說好每句臺詞。