Self Reflection.

It's frustrating.  It's disheartening.  It's poor performance in a tourney.  With a crushingly low success rate during the round robin portion of a tournament, I've been searching for a reason or an excuse to console myself.  Basically whining away the hours until I realized that a low win to loss ratio doesn't always reflect on the quality of your fighting.  Some times it just means you've been getting better.  The threat presented is much greater as the hours of practice you've been doing being to prove that the dip in the couch has been missing you. This ultimately leads to upper tier opponents taking you more seriously and thus taking you out much more quickly.  There are always ups and downs.  It's important to realize this and not loose focus.