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Sport Motivation –
How to Become Best In Your Chosen Sports
Motivation and sport go hand in hand. The only way to taste glory
in any sport can only be driven by motivation to excel and to
perform beyond. Motivation can be looked upon as an emotion
because it makes a legend out of an ordinary sportsman. But how
can sport motivation transform a sportsman?
Sport motivation depends a lot on lead by example. So if we are
talking about an athlete, then the best motivational example will
be of Jesse Owens, who was the first black to win an Olympic Gold
Medal in Hitler’s Germany. Winning a gold medal is not the biggest
accomplishment, the fact that you won over your own self against
all odds is the most remarkable thing.
Sport is highly competitive today whether you look at Basketball,
Baseball, and Soccer, Cricket or even archery. Every sport has its
own requirement and every sportsman will have to embrace defeat
before they can learn to win. Most of the motivation in sports can
be provided by just one person – The Coach.
The Coach is responsible for a team or individuals performance;
he/she is responsible for putting a team together and guiding them
or an individual towards the final goal. The coach has to also
shoulder the responsibility for failure or for success. Let’s look
at soccer players. Now David Beckham has played for so many clubs
but he is considered to have performed better for Manchester
United and not for Real Madrid. One of the most obvious reasons is
lack of motivation from the coach. Motivation shows in the way the
team taken on their opponent just the way Italy went on to win the
FIFA World Cup in 2006 and Chelsea have been performing so well
through out the last 3 seasons in premiership leagues.
Basically, there are two types of coaches. One who acts as a drill
sergeant, shouts out instructions and berates players or
sportsmen. They create a negative environment where motivation
will not be able to grow. On the other hand, there is a coach who
remains in control without losing his/her calm and doesn’t believe
in achieving the objective through intimidation. These are the
kind of coaches who can motivate a team to reach greater heights.
The second most important factor in sport motivation is feedback.
A coach can provide a negative feedback and humiliate a player in
front of the team and this will demoralize the player completely
and hamper his/her future performance. On the other hand, there is
another coach who will speak to his player separately, understand
why his/her performance was not up to mark and guide him through
the entire process, so that he/she can come victorious. This will
offer plenty of motivation to any player.
The motivation for being a part of a sport and striving for
excellence and constant improvement tends to change from person to
person. And it’s a fact that different people have different
motives and rarely is just one single most important reason that
encourages people to achieve success. More often than not, these
multiple motives tend to cause internal conflicts in sports people
forcing them to let go of some of them for the greater and more
important reasons.
Darren Williger
http://www.beemotivated.com |
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