To help athletes focus on the process, coaches must teach them that the path to success is to control the controllables and not to worry about things that are uncontrollable. Correspondingly, the process is controllable, and the outcome is uncontrollable. Underachievers are the ones who give control of their successes and failures to uncontrollable factors. […]
Hard work can only take you so far. At some point, out working your competition has diminishing value. It’s at this point where things like mindset, knowledge, creativity, and innovation become the differentiators among elite athletes. Yes, you must keep working hard even when you reach the point of diminishing value. I’m not saying your mindset […]
It’s healthy to embrace hard work. You may even call a person who embraces hard work virtuous. However, what would you call someone who constantly makes hard work harder to no end? I’m talking about someone who does it the hard way not because it makes them better, but because they don’t know better. A […]