When someone is seen as being "determined", they are seen to have "resolve". If you look at the word "determination", you see the word "termination". Both "termination" and "resolve" refer to "completing" something or "an ending". When we say we are "determined" or have "determination", we are saying that we will take something to its full completion. We will stick to it until it is done. Determination doesn't mean that we will stay with it until it gets hard or difficult or boring or uncomfortable or when we lose interest in it. Determination keeps going when we want to stop. When we have a hard conversation with someone and we are willing to stay engaged until we find a resolution, then that is determination. Determination is what helps us persevere when others quit.
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Motivation comes from the Latin root "movere" which means "to move". We need motivation to move from behaving, feeling or thinking one way to behaving, feeling or thinking a better way. When we begin something like a New Year, new semester, new season, new workout plan, new eating plan, new study routine, new spiritual plan, we usually don't have a problem because we just started. We moved already. But over time, we lose motivation. We lose a desire to move more. We become stagnant. We need to be intentional about moving. NIKE came out with a marketing campaign a few decades ago and it has become a part of our every day language. It is three simple words and the words simply encourage us to move. Every NIKE add plays into our emotions and often give us motivation to do something. NIKE understood that people are naturally unmotivated. Instead of telling us to buy their shoes, they tell us to move ... so we go and buy their shoes. Today is a great day to see where in your life you need to move more. Move from being in the same place you were yesterday. Do more. Do different. Just Do It.
You can't stop the rain. You can stop getting wet but you can't stop the rain. You can use an umbrella to keep you dry but you can't stop the rain. We spend a lot of time worrying about things that we have little to no control over. Unfortunately we also spend a lot less time acting on the things that we have complete control over. We can't stop the rain but we can put on a rain jacket and tie our shoes a little tighter and make a conscious decision to not let the rain keep us from working toward our goals.
Alabama was a touchdown favorite. Clemson won by four touchdowns. What happened? Sports Happened! Sports are more than muscle and technique. Games are won or lost by more than speed, agility and quickness. The biggest athlete doesn't always win. The most athletic person doesn't always hoist the trophy. Sports are more than robots or stats that can be entered into a computer. Sports involve human beings and human beings are completely emotional. Emotions can either fuel an athlete or distract them from their goals. Emotions can either control an athlete or they can be controlled by the athlete. Sports Happen but we can either allow our emotions to allow sports to happen to us or we can learn to control and manage our emotions so that we make sports happen for us.
Babies are seen as immature. Who can blame them, they are babies. Toddlers are seen as immature when they act like babies. Teenagers are seen as immature when they act like toddlers. College students are seen as immature when they fail to exercise self-control. By the time we are adults, we no longer have an excuse because we now have the ability to show self-control. Self-control refers to using our minds to make choices to behave properly. We now have the ability to control our urges or natural impulses. We no longer are like an abandoned ship on the sea with no control of our rudder and sail, being tossed by the wind and the waves. We are still on board, with a full crew who can not only sail the ship, but throw down an anchor if needed.
Yesterday was either a good day or a bad day. Yesterday either was a success or a failure. Yesterday was full of all kinds of actions and circumstances and behaviors and we consciously and subconsciously evaluate those moments as success or failures or "good" or "bad". What is our response? If they were good/successes, then we should use that positive as fuel and as momentum to have more success and good things happen today. If they were failures/bad, then today is a new day. Learn and move on. We have choice.
Temptation is not a bad thing. Temptation is the opportunity to do what is correct. Fear is not a bad thing. Fear is an opportunity to trust. Stress is not a bad thing. Stress is a demand placed on our mind and body and allows us to improve. Rejection is not a bad thing. Rejection is a "redirection" toward something better. We can choose to be limited to how we label and define our circumstances or we can redefine our life by choosing to adjust our attitude.
As college students begin to get in their cars today to return to campus for the start of a new semester, most have a plan. No one simply gets in the car and starts driving aimlessly, hoping that they arrive to campus at some point later that day. Some have better plans than others. Where to stop for food or a bathroom break? Where to fill up with gas? How long it will take? The best route to avoid traffic or poor weather conditions? Unfortunately, GPS has ruined a lot of the planning and has resulted in a lot of people to simply use the Waze app as their "plan". Showing up to practice and simply doing things (ie - following the coaches directions) with the hope of "arriving" at a specific destination is as flawed as getting in a car and simply driving without a direction or destination in mind. As practice begins, athletes should come to each practice with a plan. What do you want the result to be at the end of practice? Work harder than you have ever worked before? Learn something new? Do things more intentionally? Be more focused? Be more coachable? Be more encouraging to TEAMmates? Believe in yourself more and take risks and accept failure is not failure but a step closer to success? Simply wanting to be "better" is not a goal and is more of a wish than a plan.
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