In 2012, when I was training the basketball team at the University of Kentucky, we first came to the sec at the end of the season. Our file for the year was 13-3. But we also lost our game against Alabama-the team that ended last at that time at 3-13. The worst beat first.
As this old athletic roll goes, “In any given night …”
I mean no lack of respect for Alabama, but at this particular time I would prefer to be, regardless of the outcome of a game. Basically, whatever the rare disruption, our belief in our ability to maintain steady success did not fall. Of course we were not happy to lose against Alabama, but our filters in the processes of thinking about defeat were healthy.
Real success should never be defined by short -term results
Sports upheavals occur all the time, either during the regular season or in league games. But what makes a great team, whether in sports or in business, is never a single result or result, or even a handful of them.
Pause for a moment and think of a recent loss or failure you had in your professional life. Could be large or small. Was there something you could have done reasonable to avoid it or somehow could you create a different result? How did you handle it emotionally and how do you think about it? Did you hit yourself with a negative self-speech? Did you let it roll a little too fast from your back and not take any lesson from it?
The quality of a Famer room is reduced to a mentality that enables them to achieve constant success. They have created the habit of always leading to excellence. Because excellence is their own modus operandi – or how they work, they are driven to prepare with maximum capacity.
Developing the right mentality
One of the main reasons why the right mentality is so important is that it prevents you from wasting energy in non -productive activities. Whether your reaction takes the form of a pity personal party or a relentless inner chewing, you rob yourself of the time and energy you could spend by preparing to win next time. But in excessive reaction to failures, you waste energy focused on the result instead of thinking, “What can I do to get better prepared for the next situation?”
Instead of drowning in non -productive negativity, I sincerely recommend analyzing a defeat for what you can learn from. Learning to do this equip you with a valuable tool to improve your performance for the next time. You will move on to your next challenge with the confidence acquired by a lesson, not with unnecessary self -criticism that lets you feel less confident.
If you realize that you have a bad spiritual filter on how you process the defeats, you can change it. You can develop a mentality for continuous success and the more you exercise this mentality, the further you will go.
Over the next week, pay close attention to the discussion that happens to your head while working or training or playing your sport. Make a conscious effort to consider how you process the resulting challenges.
- How long do you spend complaints, either loud or on your head?
- How long do you spend worrying about the circumstances you can’t control?
- You often think chaotic, as if you were fighting a fire after another?
If these are your mental habits, you have convinced yourself that the circumstances are out of your control.
The way out of such a victim mentality is to stop your negative thoughts. Stop these self -destructive patterns and re -educate your brain into new habits.
Develop the mentality required to succeed Through these actions:
- Decide how to answer. When you start complaining, stop and create a list of practical changes you could make to respond to the situation.
- Focus on an action. When you catch yourself by worrying about the circumstances beyond your control, interrupt yourself and ask: What is an action I could do now to face my job challenge? And then take this action. Your mind will shift from worry to practical action and will touch your trust.
- Determine tangible solutions.If you are always with problems problems and constantly racing fires, ask yourself: How could I categorize these problems and solve them permanently? Cut temporary solutions and find clarity that allows for real progress towards permanent solutions.
- Take the conversation on your head. The content you feed your mind keeps your sovereignty over your mindset. Train yourself to observe the content you feed your brain. If these are complaints and discomfort from external forces, this is like feeding your brain a stable diet with rough food. Choose to feed your brain in a way that builds the mentality for a steady pursuit of excellence.
The dominance of your thinking process will give you the mentality that allows you to crush self -destructive thoughts and keeps you leading in the direction of steady success.
Bio writer
Matthew Mitchell is one Journal Wall Street and US today The best -selling writer, the speaker, the triple coach of the year SEC and the winner coach in the history of the basketball program at the University of Kentucky.
It is now leading the basketball team of the University of Houston. Mitchell’s new book, Ready to win: How much great leaders achieve preparation (Winning Tools, November 19th 2024) – already a US today Bestseller – shares proven principles that lead to durability, preparation and development.
Learn more at www.coachmatthewmitchell.com.
