Psyching

- How to quickly and easily avoid "psyching" yourself out of approaching your "choice" ❋ Unknown (2008)

Flying under the radar, I entered into the short program by psyching myself up with the idea that I had something special to bring to skating in the States—if I could just keep it together. ❋ Johnny Weir (2011)

His most recent memories seemed to be of lying on a trolley in the Landau Clinic, while technicians prepared him for the scan — on the face of it, a bad sign — but he'd been overwrought, and he'd spent so long psyching himself up for “this”, that perhaps he'd forgotten coming home, still hazy from the anaesthetic, crashing into bed, dreaming … ❋ Blue Tyson (2010)

Instead I woke with a head full of mucus and began psyching myself into the final countdown (30 hours) before my entire family arrive for their first Australian Christmas. ❋ Another Outspoken Female (2009)

Vivek: I was psyching myself into what I'd do if I didn't find the girl attractive, but I didn't have to worry about that. ❋ Post (2011)

The other half seemed to be a focus on psyching out your opponent through glares and taunts, along with motivational speeches to make this flag football game very important to us, culminating in the whole team listening to a tape of inspirational music before the big game, which was songs from Rocky and dramatic classical music. ❋ John Wellington Ennis (2011)

In my head, an NBA coach was psyching me up, telling me he was about to bring me off the bench and put me in the game. ❋ Steve Dennis (2011)

Maybe I'm over-thinking things -- a first in any context -- or I'm psyching myself out, but getting a finished product I've been satisfied with has been like pulling teeth lately. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I was really psyching myself out before hand, and the reaction you see is real. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I meditated, wrote my intents down in my journal, reviewed them with my husband and kids, and began psyching myself up for Jan 1 like everything would wonderfully change. ❋ Mallika Chopra (2011)

I have spent the past week totally psyching myself up for my day at the Fairfax clinic. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He may be best known for his experiments psyching out the College Board by figuring out which words earn students high grades on the SAT essay, and then having students write horrific prose using those words, and earn high scores nonetheless. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I think I'm psyching myself up to dive back into the daunting task of Disgaea 3. ❋ SVGL (2009)