 If you want to dominate the pitch, become a better soccer player. If you want to dominate your life, become a more successful person. If you want to learn how to reinvent yourself, this video is for you. Join me on the whiteboard. Let's give you a systematic plan on how to reinvent yourself at any point in your life. But specifically this break, what if you could come back in the best form of your life? Better physical condition, stronger mentality, better technical skills, smarter player, better understanding of the game. What if you could come back in every area of your life was better? You were better in school, you were a better student, you were better in work, your career, your ability to make money, you were better with people, you were better with relationships and your ability to make connection. How would that improve your life? And who would that person look like? So I did a little post leading up to this video and I said I was going to make a video on how to reinvent yourself and I asked what questions he had on this topic. These are some that came up. Why should I even reinvent myself? Why do I need to reinvent myself? Well, number one, you should always be growing. Growth is happiness. Growth is, growth is happiness. You feel your best when you're growing, but if you stay the same, stay complacent, those good things that are happening for you right now, eventually they're going to dry out. Okay, so you always have to keep improving, but on another level, ask yourself, am I happy with the current results that I'm getting on the field? Am I getting enough respect? Am I making enough impact? Am I achieving all the things that I said I wanted to achieve? If not, it's a great time to reinvent yourself. What does it mean to actually reinvent yourself? Well, it means looking at yourself honestly, being very honest with yourself, being self-aware of your weaknesses, asking yourself, what results do I want to achieve? And what type of person, what type of player do I need to be to achieve those things? And then working backwards, creating a plan to actually develop those skills, develop those attributes. Is it possible to reinvent yourself 100%? So many people are in the mindset that this is who I am. This is who I'll always be. This is the type of player that I've always been. These are the type of weaknesses that I've always had. I just have to accept them. I've always been slow. I've always been out of shape. I've always been unconfident. That is not true. It is totally possible to reinvent yourself and change all those things, turn your strengths into superpowers, turn your weaknesses into strengths. Is it okay to reinvent yourself? Shouldn't I just be happy with the person that I am? Should I just love myself or who I am? Yes, you should 100% love yourself. But I guarantee you're going to love yourself even more if you're getting better every single day. You're looking at what's wrong, what's not working for you, and you're changing it. So it is okay. I encourage you to constantly look at yourself, what's working, what's not, reinvent yourself on a regular basis. When should you do it? Well, as I said, this break is an incredible opportunity. When I had my injury, the off season, anytime you have a major failure or major setback in your life, that is an incredible opportunity to sit down and take some time and reinvent yourself as a player and a person. How long does it take? Well, I guess that depends on how much work you have to do and how often should you do it? Well, when your results are starting to slow down, that's probably what you want to sit down and do it again. But I would do it every season. At the beginning of every season, I usually sit down with a piece of paper and say, these are the things that I want to achieve. And this is what I have to do to get there. So what I'm going to do right now in front of you is I'm going to reinvent myself or at least I'm going to make a plan to do so. So as an example, I'm going to say right now, I'm too slow. I need to improve my 1v1 defending. I need to improve my 1v1 dribbling. And I'm going to talk about exactly why I decided on all of these. I want to get leaner, but also add more muscle mass, but take the leanness to a new level. I really want to improve, not that my stamina is bad, but it has to go to a whole new level and punctuality. Punctuality. Punk? How do you spell punctuality? So being extremely honest with myself, being extremely honest with you on camera. Too slow right now. Not saying that I'm the slowest, not saying that I'm not faster than I've ever been. But I know to take it to the next level, this has to be improved by me to get faster. My 1v1 defending has improved tremendously since when I was a youth player to now, I'm actually a very good 1v1 defender. I make a lot of tackles, a lot of interceptions. I'm very good at pressing, but in 1v1 situations, I just hate being beat. It's something that bugs me. Even if I tackle the guy nine times and he beats me once, it drives me crazy. So 1v1 defending is something I really want to work on, I want to become a beast in that area. 1v1 dribbling, if you've seen me play and you've watched me in my videos, technically I'm very good at dribbling, I'm very good at keeping the wall. I'm even very good at creating space to get a shot off or to play pass. But as far as actually direct dribbling, getting pass, multiple players, like a messy-esque type of dribbling, getting pass players, I really want to add that to my game this season. Stamina. Being honest with you, I am probably the fittest player all in my team, one of the fittest players in the league, but I know this is a massive separator from amateur professional players. I want to take that to a whole new level that I'm just going to blow past people on the pitch, especially in the later stages of the game, so I really want to work on that. Lean mass. Again, compared to my peers, and you should never compare yourself. Use them as benchmarks, use them as inspiration. But if you're above everyone else, don't say, oh, I'm better than everyone else, so I don't have to do that. Because I'm probably in better shape than most people. I'm leaner, I probably have more muscle mass than most people, but it's not enough. It has to go to a new level. So I really want to work on getting a leanest to a whole new level this year, as well as increasing muscle mass. I don't want to lose my size. And as well, just looking good as well. This is what I really have to work on personally, punctuality, actually being on time. So I have to work on my time management, because I always have so many things I want to do before the game as far as preparation, nutrition, getting enough water, my teas, my coffees, my supplementation, making sure it bags packed. And you do so many things, and then they'll always end up rushing to the game. So I want to work on leaving earlier, getting there on time, so I can actually have a proper warm-up, some things I really need to work on. Okay, so now that I've identified the things that I want to improve, I actually have to create steps to achieve those results. It's a great thing. I want to improve all these things. But what are you actually doing to make them happen? So many times I say, yes, I want to get faster, I want to be a better shooter. I want to improve my stamina. But we just say those things, and we don't actually create a plan to make it happen. We just hope it happens. Okay, so for example, if I wanted to get faster, what am I actually doing? Well, I actually have to practice the skill of sprinting. I need to do it three times per week. And I actually need to time myself. How many times have you had someone actually time you in the stock watch, and you know what your 100 meters is? You know what your time is. Is it actually getting better? So you need to track these things in order to know if you're progressing and you're moving towards your goal. So after you time it, I would have to train for power. So more explosive lifting. Let's say, for example, deadlift, split squats. Actually getting under the bar, focusing on moving it explosively rather than just getting down and lifting as much weight as you can. We're lifting for high reps with good control. Obviously technique, massive form, but focusing on producing more powerful muscles. One thing I want to defend me, what am I actually going to do to improve this? Well, maybe after every practice, I am going to have my teammates just attack me. One drill that I love to do is I'll set up a rectangle with boxes and I'll put one guy in the middle and I'll have players, maybe three, four players, two on this side, two on that side, and you just attack him. You're trying to get to the other side of the box and it's 1v1. But as soon as he makes a tackle or you get past him, the other guy comes from the other side. So he just has to turn 1v1 to defend here, 1v1 to defend here, go back and forth. As he gets tired, he's still also focused on good footwork and good defending technique. So after every practice, I would make myself do that for, let's say like five minutes, really focused on improving my 1v1 to defend. Let's say for example, I wanted to improve my lean mass. Well, nutrition is massive. So I might actually have to track my calories to know if I'm in a killer or a surplus or deficit if I want to lose weight. But instead of just always cutting calories, what I prefer to do, and I can make a video for this in the future, if you would like, if so comment below, is to increase your strength. Because as you become stronger, your metabolic demand becomes higher. So instead of always just cutting your calories, focusing on building more muscle, getting you stronger, that's gonna help you burn more calories naturally. So just focus on that. And then so important is actually being consistent and tracking progressive overload. I have to track, I have to track how much weight I'm lifting. So I know the next time I go there, I'm actually lifting a little bit more. Hey, you have to track, otherwise you don't know if you're getting any closer to your goal. So those are just examples. I could go through all of these, but what I want you to do is sit down with a piece of paper and I want you to do this for yourself. So create an action plan for yourself. Sit down, be honest with yourself, say, what type of player am I right now? What type of player do I want to be? What type of goals do I want to achieve? Who do I need to be to achieve those things? What skills do I need to have? What abilities do I need to have? Identify those and then work backwards. Go on to YouTube, go on to Google and find the information. If I want to improve my stamina, I have to do the research and say, okay, what are the things that I need to do? What are the major things I need to do that are going to create this result of having more stamina or having better endurance? So do that for all the things that are important to you. Create an action plan, create a few key steps that you're going to take to actually make that happen. Another thing I would encourage you to do is check out the transformation programs, my advanced courses. Because what I did when I created all of those courses is I sat down and I basically said, okay, what are the most important skills or what are the specific skills for this course that we need to improve? And I made an action plan to reinvent myself or to reinvent a player who is taking this course. So I've already done this multiple times and every time I make a new course, I sit down and I do it a little bit better. So check out the courses, I'll put a link right here. I believe it's progressosaubertraining.com, backslash courses, you can check those out. I'm also offering online mentorship and coaching. So if you wanna get on a Skype call or a Zoom call with me, sit down and we can talk specifically for your situation. We can create a plan for you. I can also help you with anything else going on in your soccer life or your general life. Whatever you wanna achieve, I'm offering this especially right now during this time when we're all stuck at home. So check that out as well, progressosaubertraining.com, backslash online mentorship. So I hope you found this video valuable and I hope you're actually gonna try to sit down and reinvent yourself so you can come back from this bridge in the best form that you've ever been.