One of the toughest things to deal with is falling short of a lifelong goal or dream. Maybe you didn’t win conference, state, or national title that you dreamed about all your life. Does this mean you failed?
Life is all about how you frame things. When I was in high school I dominated the competition during AAU season until I came up short in my last tournament I got to play before I went to college. In college my senior year, my team lost the first game in the NCAA tournament. Ending my hopes getting to play different teams around the world and a NCAA champion title. Even though I got a ring from being a conference champion, that was forgotten because the way the NCAA tournament went. All of those opportunities lost were devastating.
For a long time, I looked at my career as a failure. I see a similar problem with many players that I know, played with, talked too, and have worked with. Now I know better and so will our athletes.
It all comes down to how you frame your basketball career. How has basketball impacted your life? What did you GAIN?
If you were Fanatical about your basketball career, you can rest assure your life has changed in a positive way. If you truly committed to a lifestyle of Intensity, Consistency, & Constant Improvement on the court, you didn’t fail. You succeeded whether you won a title or not. If you battled an injury and came back stronger than ever, that’s success in my eyes.
Through A Fanatical basketball career, you have learned Discipline, Accountability, Work Ethic, Sacrifice, Dedication; as well as Physical and Mental Training tools that you will have for your ENTIRE life.
Basketball has given my old teammates and I the Physical and Mental tools it takes to pursue and live to Dedicate our lives in our careers, our relationships and friendship, and our lives.
We have GAINED so much from basketball, so whether we have “succeeded” in winning conference, state, or national titles we did not fail in our basketball careers. We succeeded and I am sure so did you.
You are better person and will have a successful life if you apply these principles in your career, your relationships, and everything that comes your way. If you haven’t yet, start framing your basketball career this way.
STOP looking at what you lost or what you didn’t achieve and START looking at what you have GAINED from basketball. Then no matter what happened, you succeeded and NO ONE can take that from you.
Life is all about how you frame things. When I was in high school I dominated the competition during AAU season until I came up short in my last tournament I got to play before I went to college. In college my senior year, my team lost the first game in the NCAA tournament. Ending my hopes getting to play different teams around the world and a NCAA champion title. Even though I got a ring from being a conference champion, that was forgotten because the way the NCAA tournament went. All of those opportunities lost were devastating.
For a long time, I looked at my career as a failure. I see a similar problem with many players that I know, played with, talked too, and have worked with. Now I know better and so will our athletes.
It all comes down to how you frame your basketball career. How has basketball impacted your life? What did you GAIN?
If you were Fanatical about your basketball career, you can rest assure your life has changed in a positive way. If you truly committed to a lifestyle of Intensity, Consistency, & Constant Improvement on the court, you didn’t fail. You succeeded whether you won a title or not. If you battled an injury and came back stronger than ever, that’s success in my eyes.
Through A Fanatical basketball career, you have learned Discipline, Accountability, Work Ethic, Sacrifice, Dedication; as well as Physical and Mental Training tools that you will have for your ENTIRE life.
Basketball has given my old teammates and I the Physical and Mental tools it takes to pursue and live to Dedicate our lives in our careers, our relationships and friendship, and our lives.
We have GAINED so much from basketball, so whether we have “succeeded” in winning conference, state, or national titles we did not fail in our basketball careers. We succeeded and I am sure so did you.
You are better person and will have a successful life if you apply these principles in your career, your relationships, and everything that comes your way. If you haven’t yet, start framing your basketball career this way.
STOP looking at what you lost or what you didn’t achieve and START looking at what you have GAINED from basketball. Then no matter what happened, you succeeded and NO ONE can take that from you.