Under pressure your focus narrows to a tunnel. Take one breath and let the edges back in.

Stress collapses your field of view. That narrowing helps in a sprint and costs you dearly in anything needing judgment, because the detail you need is often sitting in the part you have stopped seeing, whether that is an open teammate or the second half of an exam question. One slow breath reverses some of it. The body leads here, not the thinking.

Pick your cue for this week, a free throw, a test, a difficult phone call, and take one deliberate breath first. Look around before you act, then go.