Lesson: Decision Making - Control the Controllables
Decision-making is an art that becomes perfected over time. When you need to make an important decision, many things can affect your mental process such as your intellectual reasoning, your emotions, and even memories of past decisions and their outcomes. When you make decisions, don’t let yourself be distracted by things outside of your control.
When making a decision in life you have to focus on what you can control: your PREPARATION, your EFFORT, your ATTITUDE, and your FOCUS.
The first step in decision-making is to identify what we can control in our own lives. We will remember our 3-step process - the BE POSITIVE methodology.
Preparation
Your preparation includes your level of training, your diet, your attention to mental skills, your game plan, your technique, your warm-up, your pre-game routine, etc. When you are truly prepared, you will feel more confident and in control.
Effort
Your effort includes your training intensity, your competition intensity, and your attention to technique refinement. Hard work separates the good from the great.
Attitude
Your attitude includes your mindset towards competition, your perspective about adversity, the content of your thoughts, how you approach training, how you respond to mistakes, and how you respond to bad officiating. Your attitude is everything!
Focus
Your focus is what you choose to pay attention to. When you focus on the positive and get in the zone, you will have an advantage over your opponents. Focusing on the controllables will keep your head in the game, emotions in check, and performing at your peak.
Don't worry about the things you can't control. Use the Fight ON! Mentality to control the controllables.
When making a decision in life you have to focus on what you can control: your PREPARATION, your EFFORT, your ATTITUDE, and your FOCUS.
The first step in decision-making is to identify what we can control in our own lives. We will remember our 3-step process - the BE POSITIVE methodology.
- THINK positive thoughts
- SAY positive words
- DO positive acts
Preparation
Your preparation includes your level of training, your diet, your attention to mental skills, your game plan, your technique, your warm-up, your pre-game routine, etc. When you are truly prepared, you will feel more confident and in control.
Effort
Your effort includes your training intensity, your competition intensity, and your attention to technique refinement. Hard work separates the good from the great.
Attitude
Your attitude includes your mindset towards competition, your perspective about adversity, the content of your thoughts, how you approach training, how you respond to mistakes, and how you respond to bad officiating. Your attitude is everything!
Focus
Your focus is what you choose to pay attention to. When you focus on the positive and get in the zone, you will have an advantage over your opponents. Focusing on the controllables will keep your head in the game, emotions in check, and performing at your peak.
Don't worry about the things you can't control. Use the Fight ON! Mentality to control the controllables.