Pressure makes diamonds

This is a good motivator for those who fear pressure. If you take the approach and mentality that pressure, anxiety, fear, nerves, they will all help you thrive, then that allows you to excel when those feelings arise before competition. Even if you don't believe it at first, the repetition of affirmations, in conjunction with creating a little bit of faith in those words, will build that seed of success and allow it germinate. If you have the mindset that you will achieve peak performance regardless of your emotional state, that is an incredibly empowering belief that lets to be free to just go out there and have fun and compete at your best. And that's all you can ever ask of yourself.