Sports journaling is a powerful way to stay motivated and awesome throughout your entire season. By keeping a record of your workouts, thoughts and experiences, you’ll inevitably discover your competitive advantages and how to use them.
Here are some possible advantages:
1) Insightful Patterns – Tracking your activity makes it easy to identify patterns in your work ethic and opportunities for improvement. It forces you to pay attention to your habits and often explains why you are or are not progressing.
2) Mental Clarity – As you notice specific patterns in your behavior, it will be obvious what is working for you and what’s not. This creates mental clarity. And the clearer you are about what you need to do to get to where you want to go, the faster you’ll improve and achieve your goals.
3) Most-Improved Focus – You have no control over how talented your opponent is. And that’s ok, because you are your biggest competitor. When you focus on being your fastest and strongest self, you gain power knowing you gave it your all—no matter the outcome of the competition.
4) Mental Recovery – At times, the fears and frustrations of sports can seem overwhelming, which can negatively affect performance and motivation. By writing them down, you release some of the power they have over you, and can begin to focus on how to transform them into comeback stories.
Tip: Look back at all the wins you’ve achieved throughout the season to boost your confidence.
5) Confidence – The more confident you are, the more you will compete at your best. A sports journal will prompt you to document all of your wins, big and small, to help build your confidence. These victories remind you how far you’ve come and how awesome you are, even when you’re having some temporary setbacks in your performances.
To help my athletes capitalize on the competitive advantages of sports journaling, I created the Stay Awesome Sports Journal. You can get one for your season by clicking here. I hope it contributes to your confidence and breakthrough performances too!
Stay awesome,
Martise : )
