As a coach to sports professionals, one of the first tasks I would ask a client to think about and nail down in writing are the following 5 questions that are central to achieving sporting success. In fact, most of what leads to success in life in general comes down to these 5 points:
What is you sporting philosphy?
You need to have a clear picture of who you are or want to be as a sporting professional. Not just – I’m a football/golf/tennis player – You need to really define what your sporting values are. Which might include; a map of what works for you, what your goals are, how you want to represent yourself and be known as, the dedication you are willing to put into your pursuit of excellence, what your daily rituals and practices might include.
It’s what you want to do to make your success improve incrementally based on the process on reaching your goals and winning those competitions, not just the goals and competitions.
86,400 seconds
You have 86,400 seconds, or 1,440 minutes, or 86,400 seconds in the day. The top professional and
successful athlete, the top successful anything for that matter, will have every hour, minute and second planned out for optimal performance and success. You want to start planning your sporting life in the same way.
On a more spiritual level, the buddhists say that the reason we experience death and don’t have the option for immortality is because most of us would probably end up procrastinating every day and the sense of mortality leads us to take action now, today, rather than tomorrow.
Finish before you start
Everything that you can see around you was created twice. The computer you own, the TV, the sofa, the 
front door, the pen and paper that you write with. It was completed in perfection the first in the mind’s eye of the person that imagined it before it even existed. Only then was it actually, for the seconds time, created and manifested into existence.
You want to do the same with your sporting philosophy. Imagine yourself having actually achieved each and every one of the goals you plan on. Not just the final goal either, but incremental steps leading up to becoming the person you want to be in life. And that is befroe you even begin on your journey. As earl nightingale, napoleon Hill, Albert Einstein all taught us is – what you focus on in your mind you become.
Ounces or tons? Which is easier to lift?
Now this example might not apply to a sporting athlete, but it does provide a great metaphor and we see it in action around us in today’s world of instant gratification all the time.
If you don’t choose to eat a healthy meal, and can’t resist eating another iced bun or chocolate, then incrementally, bit by bit, your body will begin to store fat in your body. If continued, after a few months or years you will then become obese. You won’t be able to exercise much, your will power will be minimal and your mental and emotional reasoning will be lowered.
Now, if you want to have a fit, healthy, tones physique in life, do you think it is easier to-
- Simply opt to consume foods that are nutritionally good for you each time you need to eat?or
- give in to instant gratification today, eat and drink until you are overweight and obese and then decide to change you entire lifestyle and months and years of habit, in exhange for hard work hard and a healthy eating plan to obtain that fit, healthy, tones physique?
The same is true with your choices in relation to your competition goals right now, today and every day. You have an option to get up earlier in the morning to get just 5 minutes more practice in, to stop watching one of your TV programs and instead get down on the floor and knock out a few set of exercises, to not have that desert, to not berate yourself for missing that shot, and the list goes on.
It’s exactly the same with any “loser” in life – it’s the choice we make every moment of the day that leads to winning and greatness.
Look up the japanese explanation of this that they call Sanchen
So here is a question – what could you do right now that would make the sporting professional You proud?
Time’s still ticking
Have you made a decision yet to move forward for the better towards your goals? If you think life is short, I’m sure for most of you out there, your sporting life is even shorter, right?
This article is based on the ideas from – The 5 Major Pieces to the Success of Life – Jim Rohn
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