Get your Priorities Straight to Keep your Head on Straight!

So the Tuff Paw Dragster started off the season HOT and we hit quite a few races in April and May, but then life just got in the way. Mike started to get really busy with the Tuff Paw Aluminum Products. And I got really busy with teaching at McKendree College, presenting at a psychology conference, attending a sport psychology conference, and being asked to do some sport psychology sessions with a semi-pro women's soccer team. All of a sudden we were both so busy and we started feeling stressed out. We were up one night at about midnight as Mike was working on the race car and I was trying to load the motorhome, when we finally decided we just needed to take a couple of weekends off of racing! Yes, I said it! Take a couple of weekends off of racing! Am I losing my mind? What kind of driving secret is that? Well, here is the deal--racing is hard work and it is hard to win. We all know that. And if your life gets crazy, there is no way you are going to have the time or the mental energy to perform your best. There simply may be times in your life when you just need to take off a weekend, organize your life, get caught up, do some work, get your head on straight, and then mentally you will be ready to go racing. If you go racing when your brain is stressed out about all of the other things you have going on in your life, it will be much more difficult to focus on the racing at hand. So get out your calendar, look at the races you HAVE to go to, the races you really WANT to go to, and then if there is an off weekend, that might just be a good weekend to get your priorities straight!