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Aim small
Vague targets produce vague misses. Name the specific one.
Archery taught me that the outcome is set before the release. By the time the string leaves your fingers there is nothing left to control.
The old instruction is aim small, miss small. Aim at the whole target and you miss the whole target. Aim at one thread and the miss is inches instead of feet. It is the cleanest argument for being specific that I know.
The other lesson is that the shot is decided before you let go. Stance, anchor, grip pressure, breath, back tension. If you catch yourself trying to steer it at the moment of release, it is already gone. Preparation is the whole thing and nobody watches that part.
Archery also produces the most honest kind of pressure I have felt. Archers call it target panic, when your body anticipates and fires early. The cure is not gritting your teeth harder. It is going back to a blank target up close and rebuilding the motion with no score attached.
Vague targets produce vague misses. Name the specific one.
Everything that decides the shot happened before the release.
When anticipation wrecks execution, go back to reps that do not count.