Last year, speaking on Long Lost Family, Dominic explained the reason for his search for his birth mother (pictured together, visiting Glasgow) 'We went and had the scan and found out there was a massive mass in my brain, which was so unexpected and I just went down hill from that point so quickly.' 'Someone was looking out for me there, definitely,' he said. He was due to fly to Singapore but cancelled the trip after being told by his doctor that a scan had become available. The Scotland defender was taken seriously ill in November 2019 and underwent life-saving seven-hour surgery to remove an ependymoma brain tumour.ĭescribing his symptoms he said: 'A bit of a headache, my eye sight a bit was blurred which is unusual for me. It just felt like as the days were going on things were going downhill a little bit, but being me I just kept working.' I have to keep going for them, a million per cent, that's everything for me. 'Who knows how long we've got on this earth? And I'll tell you what I'm not going to waste a day of it. Speaking of the emotional meeting between his daughters and birth mother (pictured), Dominic said: 'I'm absolutely buzzing, something I've wanted for a long time. As a young lad growing up, you wanted success and all that, but for me, I've realised what is important to me. 'I think I realise now how precious life is. I've probably cried more over the last two years than I've ever done in my life.
Recalling his battle with a rare, cancerous brain tumour in 2019, he continued: 'My life will never be the same. I don't think there's a bad bone in her body.' The footballer said finding his birth mother was 'pivotal' in his recovery, adding: 'How can you not be inspired by her? She's a lovely person and she's got the best interest. Speaking of the emotional meeting between his daughters and birth mother, Dominic said: 'I'm absolutely buzzing, something I've wanted for a long time. 'It was the most difficult decision of my life, it was a terrible grief having to go through that, but it's turned out so well.' It's a miracle that we're back together, going from no son to like having the whole family “They just get frustrated real easily and blame everything on their lack of practice.Becoming emotional during the introduction, Margaret said: 'It was amazing, just to see the girls, they're so nice. “That just leads to nothing but frustration, and that’s one of the big enemies of weekend athletes,” Burton says. If you’re a casual golfer, don’t think every shot will be a gem. If a solidly hit ball ends up as an out, the batter’s response should be, “Hey, I did my job on that pitch,” Burton says.Īnd keep your expectations realistic. So baseball players should focus on making good contact with the ball, and worry less about the result. In general, he says, it’s best for athletes to focus on what they can control in the game. After that, when you take your next club out of your bag, “that’s a signal to focus totally on that next shot.” “It’s all right to be disappointed, but as soon as that club goes back in the bag, that last shot is behind you,” he says. Celebrate a good one or feel bad if it was a dud, but only for a brief time.
How? Burton suggests a moratorium strategy for thinking about a shot you’ve just made. “I think every golfer can typically benefit from being able to forget about a bad last shot, and focus their attention on the next shot.” Many golfers have problems dealing with a mistake, “and then that mistake compounds itself to another mistake and another mistake,” says Damon Burton, a professor of sport and exercise psychology at the University of Idaho. You swing for two minutes and walk around for four hours thinking about the two minutes of swinging,” Gould says. Australian player Adam Scott bogeyed the final four holes to blow a four-shot lead. Several experts say a good mental game is particularly important for playing golf, which produced a spectacular failure this month at the British Open. “Both of them figured out that’s what works for them,” he says. Before each run, one would go off by herself to focus on the course while the other would joke around with her buddies and appear carefree until just before her turn came.
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