Self-evaluating can significantly improve your performance and confidence! When it comes to developing athletes, I have learned that it’s important to look at the bigger picture.
Now, more than ever, athletes are plagued with both confidence and mental health issues that can create roadblocks for young athletes. Getting past these, can be more challenging than improving technical aspects of your game.
Self-assessments, will give you the opportunity to reflect deeply on your own game. It will help you take a deep dive into areas that can be improved in order to become the best version of yourself.
WHY IS SELF REFLECTION/ASSESSMENT IMPORTANT TO TAKE YOUR GAME TO THE NEXT LEVEL?
Here are 5 ways self assessment can improve your performance
1- Self assessments help you Build Confidence
SIT DOWN AND TAKE TIME TO EVALUATE YOURSELF AS A WHOLE:
6-Lacrosse IQ- understand the game, vision, implementing strategy not just showing up
By deep diving into these parts of yourself you will learn to build your confidence by focusing on YOU. CONFIDENCE: “It starts with YOU”
Confidence comes from doing the work (outside of practice). Every team in the country has 2 hours to practice… What are you doing with the other 22?
Confidence comes from knowing you have prepared and put in the extra work EACH AND EVERYDAY. When you know to your core, you have done all you can do each and every day, you are then able to mentally overcome any obstacle that may come your way.
DON’T compare yourself to others, or rely on any social approval to boost your confidence. This can lead to fear of failure.
INSTEAD- focus on your own game.
What are your strengths, what can you improve on?
Create a detailed plan to get there! Consistent and focused energy on improving yourself will help build the confidence you need to improve your mental game.
2- STAY CONSISTENT “Repetition builds habits”
Once you have determined your strengths and areas of improvement, you must learn to build positive habits to foster consistency in training and performance.
Here are some examples of how to become consistent:
Create a pre practice/game routine to get prepared.
Think - what do you think about before a game or practice that can help you get prepared?
Music- listen to whatever type of music gets you in the zone
Visualize-create your own personal highlight reel, focus on the details of your performance, get in the right headspace
Take the time to write down the answers to these questions and implement a pre-practice/game routine to get your mind right.
3- BE READY, BE PREPARED
Prepare with purpose.
“Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard”- Kevin Durrant
Preparation in both training and games has the potential to enhance your confidence, control and consistency. Be deliberate, be purposeful, be better!
Where are you going? How will you get there?
What do you want to accomplish?
What milestones do you want to achieve in the next 6-12 months?
Knowledge without ACTION = Zero
Knowledge plus ACTION = Results
4-KNOW YOUR WHY
Discover what motivates you. High performance athletes are driven from within. You can set yourself up for success by knowing and continually remembering what drives you.
Interval vs External Motivation-
Internal Motivation- comes from inside of you, motivated because it’s personally rewarding.
External Motivation- comes from outside of you, motivated to get a reward or avoid punishment
You need internal motivation. It's good to have a balance of both types but internal lasts longer.
Ask yourself-
Why do you play?
What do you love about the game?
What gets you excited to play?
Keep these with you and continue to go back to them and remind yourself daily of why you do what you do.
5- Become COACHABLE
By self reflection we can learn to become more open to learning every single day.
Ask yourself…. “What is your mindset”
Fixed vs. Growth Mindset-
Fixed Mindset- intelligence is static
This leads to a desire to look smart and therefore a tendency to avoid challenges, give up easier, see effort as pointless, ignore feedback, and be threatened by others' success.
Growth Mindset- Intelligence can be developed
This leads to a desire to learn and therefore a tendency to : embrace challenges, persist despite obstacles, see effort as a path to mastery, learn from criticism, be inspired by others success.
The growth mindset lets us believe we can and WILL get better and learn. That we WILL overcome obstacles and love challenges, That we WILL never stop improving.
Not only will self-assessments help eliminate mental roadblocks, they will help you create long and short term motivation, improve confidence, and overall it will allow you to LEAD YOUR JOURNEY!
THANKS FOR LISTENING XOXO
CRYSTI
IF YOU NEED HELP EVALUATING YOURSELF: I”M HERE TO HELP!
Have a bunch of games but haven’t taken the time to watch and learn? Maybe you have taken the time to watch and create a highlight video but still need help really learning and analyzing video?
BFF Lacrosse offers “ Be a student of the game”
1 on 1 Video watch with Crysti Foote
This option includes film review with learning and feedback to give you skills to work on for the next 2 weeks.
Many of you have used my video assessment tool, and have improved your marketing AND GAME PLAY. Video assessment’s also include player feedback, and insight to strengths and areas of improvement.
Have clips but not sure how to order them? How long should this video be? What clips should I be highlighting?
These are all questions that need to be answered and can make or break your video.
HOW I CAN HELP!
Professional Video Assessment
1-Identify your strengths- so you are highlighting yourself in the best possible light
2-Organize clips-help you organize your clips so that you are showing your strengths at the beginning
3-Speed up- so you cut down dead space and allow for more time to show what you can contribute to a coach
4-Assess some areas of improvement and provide the feedback you need to be the best version of you!
5-identify quality and length of video- see what adjustments need to be made.
IF YOU ARE ALREADY COMMITTED AND WANT TO IMPROVE: WORK WITH ME TO BECOME
A Be a student of the Game
1-pick a game to review always and analyze
2- set up a time/date to review with Crysti Foote
3- take notes together and talk about goals for the next 2 weeks
4-check in and option for recurring meetings
This is one of the most important recruiting tools you can use at this time and I’m here to help!
