And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the Personal Development

podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can be.

I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols and this is episode 204. It's titled Affirmations and the Law of Attraction.

And if you're ready, we'll start the show.

All right, folks, how are you doing since we last spoke? Did you watch much of the Olympics?

Team G.B did quite well, I must admit. I'm not a

massive sport fan, but I'm a people person. And to see all the enthusiasm in all the competitors,

it was lovely, it really was. And of course, being a therapist, I was particularly interested in

what was happening with Simone Biles. If you aren't aware, because you might have missed it,

Simone Biles is a gymnastics icon, but had to withdraw from most of the competition because

the pressure was getting too much for her. And a lot of people were annoyed because they wanted

entertaining. And of course, they'd never say it, but they probably felt entitled to that entertainment.

And even if the world is watching you, you should still compete, even if you don't feel that you're at your best.

And I remember Ronnie O'Sullivan once literally throwing down his snooker cue early in a match a couple of years ago,

and just walking away because he wasn't on top form and he

couldn't get his head straight. So he'd rather not play at all and he was fined and the audience

were annoyed because you can't watch a snooker match with just one player, can you? But Simone Biles

was expected to perform some really complicated and dangerous acrobatic moves that if you get it wrong,

could break your neck.

And there was a Soviet gymnast once who did just that, Yelena Machina, after breaking her leg

when she was 19 and had been expected to compete in the Moscow Olympics the following year.

And her coaches pushed her and pushed her and pushed her to train, despite her not

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