As coach of a university female basketball team, I emphasize the mentality of sustained success

In 2012, when I was training the women’s basketball team at Kentucky, we arrived first at the SEC at the end of the season. Our record for the year was 13-3. But we also lost our game against Alabama, the team that ended in the last season with 3-13. The worst rhythm first.

As that old sports adage says, “on any night …”

I do not want to go to the lack of respect for Alabama, but in that particular season I would prefer to have been us, regardless of the result of a game. Fundamentally, any rare annoying we suffer, our belief in our ability to maintain sustained success did not falter. Of course, we were not happy to have lost against Alabama, but our filters in our thought processes around defeat were healthy.

Real success should never be defined through short -term results

Sports discomfort occur all the time, either during the regular season or in the championship games. But what makes a great team, either in sports or business, is never a single result or result, or even a handful of them.

Pause for a moment and think of a recent loss or setback that he had in his working life. It could be big or small. Was there something that could have reasonably done to avoid it or somehow could have generated a different result? How did you handle it emotionally and how did you think about it? Did you hit a negative internal dialogue? Did you let him shoot a little too fast from your back and not take any lesson from him?

The quality that makes a member of the Hall of Fame reduce to a mentality that allows them to achieve sustained success. They have created the habit of the mind to always lead to excellence. Because excellence is your Operation mode – Or how they operate, they are driven to prepare at maximum capacity.

Develop the correct mentality

One of the key reasons why the correct mentality is so important is that it prevents it from waste energy in unproductive activities. Whether your reaction takes the form of a personal pity party or an implacable internal chewing, you are stealing time and energy that you could be spending to win to win the next time. But by exaggerating the setbacks, it is wasting the energy centered on the result instead of thinking: “What can I do to prepare better for the next situation?”

Instead of drowning in unproductive negativity, I recommend honestly analyzing a defeat for what you can learn from it. Learning to do this equips it with a valuable tool to improve your performance for next time. He will go to his next challenge with the trust obtained from a learned lesson, not with a meaningless self -criticism that leaves you feel less safe.

If you realize that you have a mental bad filter about how you process defeats, you can change it. You can develop a mentality for sustained success, and the stronger that mentality will exercise, further it will go.

During the next week or so, pay close attention to the conversation in your head while it is at work or in training or practicing your sport. Make a conscious effort to see how it processes the challenges that arise.

• How long do you spend, either out loud or in your head?
• How long is worrying about the circumstances you can’t control?
• Do you frequently think chaotically, as if you were fighting a fire brush after another?

If these are your mental habits, it has been convinced that circumstances are out of control.

The departure of that victims mentality is to stop their negative thoughts. Interrupt those self -destructive patterns and return to train your brain in new habits.

Develop the necessary mentality to succeed Through these actions:

1. Decide how to answer. When you start complaining, stop and make a list of the practical changes you can do to respond to the situation.
2. Grant in an action. When you get through worrying about the circumstances beyond your control, interrupt and ask: What is an action that could take now to address my labor challenge? And then take that action. Your mind will change your concern to practical action and increase your trust.
3. Determine tangible solutions.If you are always crowded by problems and fights continuously, ask yourself: how could you classify these problems and solve them permanently? Reduce temporary solutions and find clarity that allows genuine progress towards permanent solutions.
4. Wear the conversation in your head. The content that feeds your mind is maintained on your mentality. Train to notice the content that you are feeding your brain. If it is complaints and discomfort of external forces, it is like feeding your brain a stable diet of junk food. Choose to feed your brain in a way that develops the mentality for an unwavering search for excellence.

Mastering your thinking process will give you the mentality that allows you to crush autonomous thoughts and keep it leading in the direction of sustained success.

Biography

Matthew Mitchell is a Wall Street Journal and USA today Author, speaker, three times coach of the year of the SEC and the most winning chief coach in the history of the women’s basketball program at Kentucky University.

Now he trains the basketball team of the Female Division 1 of the University of Houston. Mitchell’s new book, Ready to win: How great leaders are successful through preparation (Winning tools, November 19, 2024) – already USA today Bestseller: Share proven principles that lead to resilience, preparation and growth.

Get more information in www.coachmatthewmitlell.com.