 You claim you want to be a great player, but yet you are neglecting this thing right here in this video I'm going to show you the three biggest mental weaknesses players have and things that you need to work on if you want to achieve Long-term success in this game mental weakness number one is a lack of Personal responsibility and what I mean by that is people are so quick to blame others to blame their Situation to blame their genetics to blame anything possible to make an excuse for why they don't have what they want right now If you want to be a great player, you need to take responsibility for everything when I say personal responsibility I'm saying every weakness that you have you must be honest with and you have to think how can I improve that weakness? Every bad behavior every negative habit that you have you have to be honest with yourself You have to be self-aware and you have to take responsibility for those weaknesses if you hide from them You will never improve them, but so many players do they know they're slow. They know they're always late They never show up on time. They know that they're bad at shooting They know that they can't defend but yet they hide from these weaknesses So if you want to be a great player take personal responsibility for your game take personal responsibility For your goals, let's say you want to get a college scholarship or you want to be a professional player Well, how are you going to make that happen? Yes, you live in a country that doesn't have a good football system You don't have a lot of money. Nobody's helping you. Nobody's supporting you. Well, guess what? This is your reality. So again, you can blame your situation You can blame your circumstances or you can take responsibility You can say guess what? I don't have the luxuries and the privileges that other players do in different countries or different situations But that just means that I'm gonna have to do more about my situation. I'm gonna have to do something more creative I'm gonna have to take more responsibility So I can make this happen. So no more excuses. No more complaining No more hiding from your weaknesses. No more blaming your coach or your teammates If you want to succeed in this game, you need to take personal Responsibility I will send the better in one-day soccer blueprint to anyone who comments hashtag soccer on this video Mental weakness number two is negative self-talk or a lack of positive self-talk If you want to figure out confidence you want to figure out Self-motivation or all these mental concepts It really comes down to a strong foundation of positive self-talk The way you talk to yourself in your mind Now you probably heard this before but you may not be doing it And even if you are doing it you're getting better at it Guess what that negative self-talk is still gonna creep up that self-doubt that being very critical and hard on yourself Which isn't a bad thing you want to be critical You want to expect more of yourself and ask yourself how can I always do better? But talking to yourself in a demeaning way putting yourself down saying I suck. I'm no good I'm not as good as these players. I'll never be good enough. Why am I even trying? I should give up Okay, you may think that's harsh But the reality is those thoughts and those words have been in your mind before you said that to yourself Okay, so if you want to figure out confidence you want to be better at self-motivating You have to learn to number one be aware of the negative self-talk that goes on in your mind Even the greatest winners the champions the most confident people in the world They still have negative thoughts they creep into their mind But guess what they don't allow them. They are aware of them. They say wow What was that? I can't talk to myself like that if I want to succeed If I want to be a better player and they reframe it with positive self-talk Okay, so it's easy to talk to yourself when you're in a good situation You're playing well your team is winning the coach likes you then it's easy to talk to yourself But how do you talk to yourself when things go bad when you're not playing well when you had a bad touch when you missed a chance When your team is losing when you're on the bench when the coach your teammates don't respect you How do you talk to yourself in that situation? So be aware of every negative thought you control all these thoughts in here And until you understand that and you take responsibility For those thoughts you will never figure this out. But once you do you realize hey I control every thought every word that goes on in my mind and you can reframe it positively and you can say I can do this. I am good enough. I'll find a way to become good enough. I can play with these players I can come back from this mistake. That's how you have to talk to yourself in your mind If you want to be a great player and you want to achieve success in this game So number two stop the negative self-talk be aware of it every time it pops up you say no I can do this. I am good enough. I will find a way. I can I must I will you will find a way to get through it if You start with that strong foundation of positive self-talk weakness number three You have no discipline. You have no follow-through. You don't do what you said You were going to do look. It's easy to set goals. It's easy to set a plan or set a training schedule for yourself It's a very different thing to actually follow through with that plan until you achieve the goal that you desire So if you are currently not the player that you want to be right now or you haven't achieved the things that you wanted in the past I'm going to assume that in most situations it comes down to a lack of discipline You knew what you had to do. You just didn't necessarily do it You've been in that situation before you set a plan for yourself. I've been in that situation before we all have You get really excited. Maybe you have a trap coming up or you're gonna play for a new coach and you really want to impress them So you say if you want to improve faster and achieve more this season Use the soccer success planner. It's 100 free players all around the world have already used it to improve You can download it right now. There's a link in the description below. I'm gonna train every day I'm going to eat right. I'm going to get to bed on time. I'm going to do this extra stuff after practice I'm going to go to the gym. You set your schedule You stuck with it for a few days and suddenly you find yourself on the couch back to your whole bad habits Just playing video games all day eating junk food procrastinating wasting time Wasting your potential. So what happened in this situation? You were motivated at one point But that motivation slipped away and you didn't do what you had to do. That's where you needed discipline Discipline is doing what you need to do even when that motivation Slips away. It's doing what you need to do even when you necessarily do not Want to do it. So if you're not the player you want to be right now You haven't achieved the things that you wanted in the past It comes down to a lack of discipline. You know what you have to do. You're just not doing it So realize the importance of discipline make a commitment to work on your discipline. Hey, I said I was going to do this I have to do this now for me It's easier to do what you need to do when you have strong connection to your goals So if you're always reviewing your goals and you're always you can get that motivation back Discipline becomes easier when you don't have connection to your goals or you don't set any goals at all You're just playing with no real purpose nothing on the horizon Then it's easy to waste time to push off practices or push off personal training And just fall back into your old habits. So discipline becomes easier when you get connection with your goals What are you trying to achieve this month this week? When's your next game? When's your next big moment where you have to be at your best and just realize that? Hey, I want to be a winner. I want to be a champion. Well, it's not about just being motivated all the time It's doing what you need to do on the days that you do not want to So number three really focus on the importance of discipline catch yourself being lazy catch yourself procrastinating Catch yourself making excuses and say hey You want to be a great player? Well now you have to be disciplined Success in soccer success in life. It comes down to this right here This is the most powerful tool you have and if you can understand that and start using it at a young age You're going to achieve so much in this game It takes most people took me a long time to figure out that hey This is actually more important than my feet or my body obviously you need the skills You need the physique you need the stamina and all these physical attributes But if you're weak up here, it doesn't matter how good you are everywhere else So really put the importance on that mental strength Catch yourself doing those things those negative habits work to change them and you can you'll become more confident You become more disciplined and become mentally tougher So thank you. If you don't know about me. I used to be a huge underachiever But through obsessive self-improvement. 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