How To Build Your Mindset By Following Winners
Choosing the best sports team sport will allow you to learn from their failures and victories so that you too can become a champion in any area of your life too.
When I was 10 years old I was on top of the world.
It was then that I realized I could do anything. Sure I`d known that I was a winner for a couple of years. But at that stage, I knew I could dominate the world.
Now you may think I was a very successful child. But I wasn’t. Well, now more so than many children at that age.
Yes, I was captain of the local sports team but it’s not as if we dominated the world.
Or maybe you think that when I was that young I was a super confident little guy. And I indeed was. But again it’s not because I was any more successful than anyone around me.
The reason that I felt that was a success was because I was used to winning.
My teams won. And I considered at that age that I was going to play with all those teams when I was a little older.
Because when I was 7 years of age one team I supported became the best in Ireland.
And it happened again the following year. So I considered myself to be pretty much on top of my country.
By the time another couple of years passed I was very much on top of the world as my country’s soccer team got to the World Cup finals. And that was the first time we had gotten that far.
Although I had vague memories of the Mexico 1986 World Cup that consisted of a set of round stickers with sombreros on a Mexican comic figures head plastered all over our bunk beds I still wasn’t old enough at that time to realize that our team wasn’t competing at the tournament.
So when the 1990 World Cup finals came around in Italy I was ready to hit the heights that were needed.
As far as I was concerned I was a world cup finalist. I was only a few games away from watching my team win the World Cup. I didn’t see obstacles only opportunities.
That’s how sport will frame your mind and give you a feeling of being a winner.
I was even surprised when I saw all of my countrymen and women being interviewed on the national news speaking about how amazing it was to be in the tournament. Of course, I was delighted to see them because they were a great set of supporters full of fun, creativity, and banter.
But they seemed too emotional to me about being in the World Cup finals.
Because I felt calm and expected us to compete and perhaps win it. After all most of the players we had on our team were already playing at the top of one of the biggest football leagues in the world. Every Saturday I was used to watching them play against one another for world-renowned teams like Manchester United, Liverpool, and Arsenal.
So why would there be limitations for our players?
I didn’t look at it as if these players were going to the World Cup for the first time. Instead, I looked at their individual and collective talent and compared it to the other teams that were out there. And the reality was they had a great team on paper.
Of course, when you are that young you`re inexperienced and you don’t understand the emotions of generations of losing.
Because that’s what the adults of that time were expressing. They were so deliriously happy with having been the first Irish team to get to the World Cup that they never thought they could compete to win it. Yet if they removed that emotion they would have been an even greater benefit to the team as they got to the finals.
Don’t get me wrong they were the greatest set of supporters at the tournament.
But had they kept the delight and family feel that they had and shown more expectancy it would have transferred to players more positively also.
Because sport is about being positive.
It’s about working through your emotions and channelling them towards being competitive. Planning for what you can do with the best of your ability and expecting it to work out when you`ve all the hard work and preparation completed is what comes from being a sportsperson. Sure things go wrong, but if you keep your emotions in check you’ll learn and prosper before you know it.
And when you center your emotions as a person and get others as a team to do the same thing then supporters will begin to believe that’s the way to think about things too. Positivity feeds positivity. And when it does you feel better in all aspects of your life.
From there it’s only a matter of transferring that feeling and that hard work to other areas where success awaits you.
So why not pick a sport or a team to follow?
Go for someone or some club or organization that wants to win and does their best to prepare for it too. There’s no doubt they’ll struggle at times but they’re likely to dust themselves off and get on with it again.
And that’s when you can align your attitude to theirs and let them motivate you as you strive for success in your life too.
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