The mindset that one has when arriving for practice goes a long way in determine one’s successes or failure’s during a meet. You all know this sport well and how you are conditioned to viewing whether a race is successful or not, think about it. After getting your hand to the wall, where do you shift your attention, the clock. That clock will tell a story at that exact moment, but what I can tell you is that you start writing that story at practice and it is your story, no one else. When we scrawl something on the whiteboard or verbally communicate the focus of a set to you, do you absorb it and really work on it, or do you just flush it and go about swimming along the line on the bottom of the pool. We know your thinking they are on their soapboxes again, but we feel this is important if you truly would like to reach your goals and potential whatever they may be. Let’s take a step back and look at that scoreboard for a moment. It is something that all swimmers or most of the