"Love The Game" to win competitions! http://www.mentaltoughnesstrainer.com/coaches/
Craig Sigl, the Mental Toughness Trainer talks about the importance of playing for the love of the game, which helps you get past day to day losses and disappointment and most importantly ends up helping you win more!
Transcript:
For Love Of The Game and How To Win
Have any of you ever had one of those successful moments? Like in volleyball where you know you had that dig, the spike, the save. Alright we've got three hitters. Do you love the sight of the ball hitting the corner of your opponent's floor?
Do you want to know what I love? The moment you block the ball and it goes straight. Now we're talking. It wasn't any hit you could ever do. Right. It's the denial. Denial right! Look at you guys light up. So you love achieving that execution. Right.
Do you need to win to experience any of these things and love the sport?
Can you just go in every single game and play for the fun of it?
I'm going to give you a whole lot more than what you just came up with you. And I encourage you to make your own list. Bring it home, look at it, and when you walk into the volleyball game or even just practice, you review it beforehand and go this is why I'm here!
Here are the kinds of things you can just love. You can just love being able to play in gyms. Or maybe sand volleyball players love being on the beach in the sand. They just love getting sand up their bathing suit or whatever it is right? You can just love being there for being there. Alright?
Here's the thing about sports and athletes. We've got too much brain power for our sport. Way too much brain power to hit a perfect set and smash right between the blockers hands and feel good about it. We don't need all this thought about what the other person says - right? Not really useful for any of that. You know?
Getting angry because we miss. Useful for our game? No, but our mind does all this stuff right? So the best way to do this is to crowd your mind with things so that kind of junk doesn't come in. We need to occupy our brain and our mind with useful stuff, because you all are way too smart for volleyball.
You guys have been blessed with like this Ferrari mind and all you need is a VW bug to play your sport right? Just execution of a set to get up there and let your body pound whatever you need to do out there right? Is that making sense? So make your list of all the things you love about this sport and get it in detail for when you walk in.
I love playing basketball. That might surprise some of you at my height here, but I absolutely love playing basketball. I never played competitively, but I'll go out and play just for the heck of it.
And when I get out there, man I just love the feeling of my legs just pumping and beating somebody to the ball cause I'm faster than most guys. I'm certainly not going to get any rebounds with 6 foot 5 inch guys that I play with. But the floor, that's mine baby! If the ball is near the floor, I'm gonna own it.
So I go in there with this idea that I wonder how many floor rebounds I'm gonna get today? This is what I'm here for. Bring it on! I want it! I love basketball courts! I love my feet sticking on the court and making those cuts and jerking those guys out.
Once again, does any of this matter if we win or lose? No, I play pick up games. So who cares? I don't care.
I'm suggesting you guys go out there even in highly competitively matches and tournaments and do this! "I love this game! I love my team!" You put yourself in that state and you crowd your mind with all the little details about volleyball you love.
One thing that I didn't hear that I have heard a lot from my clients is love of just improving. Love of developing skills. You guys like that right? Yeah. "I can't wait to see if I can put into play what I learned in that last practice and training. Oh I can't wait for that to happen!" You get that excitement up.
Can you imagine if you played a whole tournament with this kind of a mindset? Focusing on why you're there, the love of the sport, wanting to improve. Who cares about the score? Let your coach or whoever the team captain is that needs to pay attention to the strategy of how to play. Let them worry about that. Making sense?
For more information about the Mental Toughness Training or to work with Craig go to MentalToughnessTrainer.com.
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It is definitely more useful and productive to occupy our brains with positive reminders of why we do what we do. I like the concept of crowding out the junk.
VirtualHarvestVA 3 months ago