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...self-talk exists on three channels: positive, negative and escape. You try to be on the positive channel as much as you can while you're training or competing, but when the negative thoughts start coming, it's the speed of the transition that counts. I give them a clicker pen and tell them to just click over from the negative to the positive channel." If the anxiety doesn't go away, says Smith, then it's time to switch to the escape channel. That's for thoughts about how the athlete's role model would react. How would...
...race-to cover the filing fee and postage to return unsolicited donations. Yet, Proxmire won by hefty margins, because Wisconsin voters saw him as a true independent, willing to tirelessly practice retail politics. He'd return to the state from Washington every weekend to shake hands, keeping a mechanical clicker in his pocket to count the number he pumped-usually calling it a day when the total reached about 2,000. Wisconsin voters used to chuckle that they couldn't attend a Green Bay Packers game without being greeted by Prox...
...Macintosh and the iPod. In the past six weeks alone, Apple has shipped three impressive new products: an ultra-tiny iPod called the nano, the video iPod and a nifty feature called Front Row that lets you run your computer from across the room, lying on a sofa, clicker in hand, without crouching over a keyboard. That is cool stuff. So, where does it all come from...
Currie reminds her team of the “clicker” system used at nationals: While his colleagues focus on giving performances numerical scores, one judge’s sole job is to hit a clicker every time a dancer falls even slightly out of formation...
...judge does not score but has a clicker which he or she hits every time any one dancer is off or a mistake happens. The other judges rank teams on a scale of one to ten in each category; the average of all those scores, minus the clicker judge’s deductions, becomes the team’s overall score...