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Success. Achievement. Winning. Peak Performance. Potential. Victory. All goals worth pursuing. Four words that are often cited as being essential to accomplishment of these goals: Composure. Concentration. Confidence. Commitment. On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate yourself on these skills? Composure: How much self control do you have during practice and competition? Concentration: How well are you able to focus on the task at hand during practice and competition? Confidence: How much do you trust/believe in your ability to perform a given task in practice or competition? Commitment: How willing and able are you to press through adversity during a practice and competition? How can you improve on each of these ratings today?
Goals are meant to give you direction and to motivate you. Goals are not meant to be the purpose of life.
Average is ... average. Average isn't bad unless your goal in life is to be more than average. Average is most people. Average is normal Most people are average because most people do the same things. If you want to be better than average than you need to do the things that others are not willing to do. You need to do more when others are fine with less. You need to do different when everyone else is doing the same. Do what others won’t do to succeed. Enjoy pain, crave hard workouts, seek out tough competition, and make sacrifices often. Be abnormal.
One of the challenges with being young is the inability to completely appreciate the concept of time. For those who are much older and have lived life, there are two profound discoveries that are realized:
1) When we are young, we feel there is an infinite amount of time. We have our whole life ahead of us. More days are to come than we have lived. We will always have time to do certain things, to accomplish things and to even say things. This why procrastination is found more often in young people than older folks Those who have lived life have realized that time tends to pass us by much more quickly than we anticipate. And seasons only last for 3 months before the next season arrives. 2) When we are young, we feel that every single second matters and if we waste one moment, we will never get it back and we will never make it up. If I get sick and miss a day of practice, I will never get that day back and I will never reach my full potential. If I miss out on this one experience with friends, it will never be made available again. This is why we see younger people rush around much more than older folks. We think it is because they are old and slow. The truth is that they have rushed around themselves and have found that it is a waste of energy. Seasons come and then go but they do come around again and sometimes they are better than the previous year. As we get older, we realize that both are true in their own way. Time is not as infinite as we think it is and we need to make a conscious effort to take advantage of every opportunity that we have. Also, if we miss something, we must be content and know that every moment isn't a "make or break" moment in time. Ask someone who is much older than you and you will find that they remember some facts and experiences extremely crystal clear and accurate and then there are some facts and experiences that seem to escape them. And then there are facts and experiences that are remembered a little differently than they actually occurred. School was much harder or easier than it actually was. Life was much harder or easier than it actually was. Athletic accomplishments are usually much better than they actually were. Time erodes memory. Our memory doesn't hold on to the truth as much as we assume it does. This is to our benefit when it comes to unpleasant experiences. That is why the phrase "time heals all wounds" exists. However, time also erodes our memory and we forget how hard we worked to get to where we are now. You need to constantly remind yourself how hard you worked to get where you are now. That memory will give you a foundation to build your confidence. And after you remember how hard you have worked and how much you have accomplished, take that knowledge and work harder and smarter and improve even more.
Choice. We have choice. After a competition, an athlete can respond in a multitude of ways. If they perform well, they can be happy and satisfied and not see any need to change what they are doing. If they perform poorly, they can become self-consumed and focus on the result or goal not met and allow the performance to negatively impact their future practices and competitions. Then there are those who see competition as one more step in a long staircase upward toward their goals. A successful step gets us closer to our goal but that doesn't make the rest of the steps any easier or already achieved. What did we learn from that successful step and how can we use that to make the next step even better? And sometimes we slip or stumble on the step. Was that a small moment in time and do we get up and take another step forward and upward or do we go limp and let gravity take control and we slide all the way to the bottom of the staircase? Getting better requires responding appropriately to both successes and failures. We can and should learn from both.
We have all watched the runner finish the race and throw their hands in the air in victory. They are excited. The crowd cheers and claps. Then we watch a basketball player sink the last second three pointer and the team erupts off the bench and tackle the shooter while the fans rush the court. Winning alone is fun. Winning as part of a team is much more. Life is better when shared with others. Life is more fun when we can do what we love along side people we love. The quality of life is multiplied when the number of people involved is multiplied. There is a reason why we curl up in a ball and into the fetal position and want to shut everything out when we are sick or tired. And there is a reason that when we win or when we are excited, we throw our arms in the air and jump up and down as if we are inviting anyone around to join us.
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