Have you asked yourself, "What do I really want out of my sports career?" If you don't know that's cool, but now that you have been presented with the question it's no excuse to not take the time to sit quietly by yourself and truly meditate on the answer. Find yourself some place where you won't be disturb along with a notebook and pencil and think about how you foresee your sports career being in the next 5 or 10 years. I'm sure a lot of things will flood your mind, so jot them down. Once you have everything that you want to accomplish down on paper, now the strategizing process begins.
Each goal needs a strategy to help you accomplish it. Your plan should consist of some daily action that will eventually bring you to your desired goal. If shooting free throws at a higher percentage is your goal then your plan could be to shoot 100 free throws daily making sure you're shooting at 85% or better. Your plan should require you to stretch yourself beyond your threshold in order to increase your mental, physical, or both capacities. Visualize yourself making the game winning free throw until goose bumps form on your arm. The more real it becomes in your mind the more it's forming in reality and before you realize it you will be at the free throw line with the game on the line. How it ends depends on the effort you put in way before the moment.
Present decisions become past actions that create your future. I'm paraphrasing Andy Stanley's presentation on How To Get What You Really Want, Careful What You Want For. Your daily actions eventually will become your past, but they will affect your future. Make sure that you're putting in the work and watch your self-confidence rise as will your performance in your competitions. The discipline you're using to become a better athlete should be used to become a better student as well. One cannot exist without the other, so make sure you have the student part mastered. In the end, it will take you farther.
Each goal needs a strategy to help you accomplish it. Your plan should consist of some daily action that will eventually bring you to your desired goal. If shooting free throws at a higher percentage is your goal then your plan could be to shoot 100 free throws daily making sure you're shooting at 85% or better. Your plan should require you to stretch yourself beyond your threshold in order to increase your mental, physical, or both capacities. Visualize yourself making the game winning free throw until goose bumps form on your arm. The more real it becomes in your mind the more it's forming in reality and before you realize it you will be at the free throw line with the game on the line. How it ends depends on the effort you put in way before the moment.
Present decisions become past actions that create your future. I'm paraphrasing Andy Stanley's presentation on How To Get What You Really Want, Careful What You Want For. Your daily actions eventually will become your past, but they will affect your future. Make sure that you're putting in the work and watch your self-confidence rise as will your performance in your competitions. The discipline you're using to become a better athlete should be used to become a better student as well. One cannot exist without the other, so make sure you have the student part mastered. In the end, it will take you farther.
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