1. Avoid becoming too much of a fan, instead of an athlete. If you’re about to play a team in your league, don’t look up their stats or find them in the newspaper. At games, don’t watch the highest ranked teams competing against each other too much either. All of those things will make you…
1. Indifference/Apathy – There’s no room for these feelings if you want to develop your skills and improve your performance. Always put in 110%. 2. Stubbornness – Being stubborn leads to being uncoachable, which leads to being unsuccessful. Be open-minded and you might be exposed to a new skill or technique that you would’ve otherwise…
1. Compete in Football because YOU want to. Your happiness and well-being is more important than success. If playing football isn’t in your heart, then try something else. Don’t do it for someone else, do what YOU love for YOU. 2. Focus on the process not the outcome. If you keep improving each day, wins and titles…
1. Passion– You don’t want to play football, lift weights, eat right, work on your footwork and agility because your friends do it, or because you just want to win. You want to compete because you love it, and you’re passionate about it. If you truly love the game of football, then it’s not going to…
1. Never taking risks. Always taking the easiest class/schedule instead of challenging yourself. 2. Test scores lower than practice test scores. 3. Missing questions you know and studied for. 4. Poor body language (shoulders slumped, head down, visibly stressed). 5. Unmotivated, distracted, or bored in class. 6. Low confidence, or basing confidence on test scores. …
You have a choice each moment on the pitch, in school and in life. Are you going to be the Predator or the Prey? When you think about the Animal Kingdom there are two types of animals: Predator animals and their Prey. There are key differences between these two types of animals.Prey animals have evolved…