How to Use Failures to Your Advantage!
We never want to fail in anything that we do, but there might be a time when it just might happen! Our athletes have been doing a fantastic job training and performing. We desire those trophies and metals, but it just might happen that once in a blue moon things just do not go our way! We might be practicing every day and probably doing everything that we can as athletes to never get to a point to where we fail, then suddenly...it happens! We want to leave you with some pointers about how to use these failures to your advantage:
Key Points:
Change your stinking thinking: First things first, you are not a failure when you don’t reach your goals, but you must take responsibility for your actions.
Choose tools over pity: When we fail, we can use those as tools to get better.
You have what it takes: Once you figure out the answer to get better, you officially have everything it takes to never make the same mistake again- be consistent and don’t let the information slip.
Lesson learned: Every problem is a lesson in disguise, the larger the problem the more important the lesson.
#Playergoals: Use the knowledge of your problem and take action by creating a plan to better your game.
Something to Think About: (From the Article- “Why Failure is Good for Success”)
“The sweetest victory is the one that’s most difficult. The one that requires you to reach down deep inside, to fight with everything you’ve got, to be willing to leave everything out there on the battlefield—without knowing, until that do-or-die moment, if your heroic effort will be enough.”
“The first is to consciously maintain a positive attitude so that, no matter what you encounter, you’ll be able to see the lessons of the experience and continue to push forward.”
If you find that you as an athlete or your athlete is experiencing failure remind them that there is something that can be learned from it. As a parent help them learn to use their failures as tools to help succeed. Remind them that they will grow as a player by developing character which will in turn help them later on in life!
