How's Your Charisma?

On Wednesday October 6, 2010 the post-season for my MN Twins starts (please don't exit the playoffs after the first round, like you usually do...OK, guys?).  The boys are on the verge of maybe their best post-season since 1991?  That's amazing, considering that Justin Morneau (born in Canada and former hockey player) has been out with post concussion syndrome since July.

One reason the Twinkies have done so well?  Jim Thome.

This is a great view of Target Field

In last weeks SI (and, yes, the Sports Illustrated jinx does exist, because the Twins have been getting HAMMERED lately), Jim Thome was the story.  [See link here].

Here's the classic line in the story:

Jim Thomestands in the underground batting cage deep inside Minnesota's Target Field, and he swings the bat very slowly, and it looks as if he is underwater. People would call what he's doing visualization, but Thome has little use for big words when it comes to hitting. "I don't really like filling my brain with a lot of stuff," he will say. He's just, you know, getting loose for his next at bat, thinking about hitting a baseball really hard. That's his job—his only job these days as the Twins' designated hitter. The man doesn't even have a glove in his locker.

"How's your charisma?" a teammate, pitcher Kevin Slowey, asks him. It's the seventh inning outside, it's August warm, the Twins and the White Sox are playing a huge game in the American League Central, and it is close.

With this, Thome breaks away from his hit-the-ball-hard thinking, grins his big grin and shouts, "Charisma's good! Charisma's real good! Something special going to happen! Going to do something special tonight!"

This is the answer Thome always gives.

"You going to hit your 900th home run tonight?" another teammate, reliever Glen Perkins, asks.

"Maybe," Thome says, and the grin gets wider. "Anything's possible."

Read more:http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1174607/index.htm#ixzz1180PrtpF

How's your charisma?  How's your mojo?  How's your moxie?

To be an elite level ref, you need to have that "stuff".  It all comes from a belief and attitude.  These are the exact same things we cover in the Mental Tuffness Training (R).  

There are 13 Steps to Championship Success.  If you join Ultimate Officials, or the Minnesota Development Model, you will learn all of these steps in detail.  Nobody else is teaching this stuff.  I am.

And...if you're wondering...my charisma is good!

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