A Win!

I am mentally celebrating my win tonight. It wasn't a glorious win, but I'm feeling really happy about it. Mainly because I held myself together despite the nerves and uneasiness caused by ref'ing the match that was played before mine. The ref'ing was challenging. The other team was very vocal and challenged everything from the score to how lets were called and physical contact. Still after being two games down, I didn't despair. I kept focusing on one stroke at a time and one point at a time. In my head I kept saying positive things like, 'I have no problem catching up', 'I have him on the ropes', 'I can serve this one deep'. 'I will know which direction to hit'. I didn't have to say 'I will win.' I just focused positive thoughts on the one thing that was right before me. The points just started to add up and everything went well for me. This was a huge success in mental toughness and I'm going to remember this for all future matches.