Mental Training 2
Connecting with your Goals: Creating a road map for success
- Challenge yourself to work on areas that need improvement
- Goals should be challenging, measurable, self-referenced, and within your control
- Technique goals, practice goals, competition goals, mental training goals, strength/conditioning goals, etc.
- Goal Planning (begin with the end in mind, develop specific action plans and strategies for achievement)
- Set short term goals (daily/weekly, monthly) in relation to long term objectives (Career)
- Balance outcome goals with performance goals
- Outcome goals (Bonuses)
- Performance goals (In order to win the big accounts, we need to commit ourselves to …)
- Write your goals down and specify timetables for achievement
- Monitor, evaluate, and adjust your goals based on the progress you are making (adapt and persist)
- Get in habit of using weekly journals
- Think of creative ways to quantify and measure your goals
- Take Pride and Ownership over your goals - be accountable to yourself and to your teammates
- Finally, have a passion for you are doing - challenge yourself to raise the bar in your pursuit of excellence