Kebnyan sportsmen. [photo/africareview.com]
This has subsequently led to the intensive, extensive and almost an exhaustive research of the secret of great sportsmen and women throughout history. The first thing that stands out is the attitude.
Having great attitude is the starting point towards a great sporting performance. Your attitude as a sportsperson invariably determines your altitude, how high your achievement is. This is so because one’s mind and body are part of the same system as they influence each other.
Your attitude controls your mind and your mind subsequently controls your body’s language, limitations, and abilities. Great and peak performers have always nurtured and harnessed the power of a great attitude, thus enabling them not only to outperform their opponents but also take their sporting careers to dizzying heights.
Many of course have tried in vain to emulate such sporting performances. This is so because the wannabe stars have not built their sporting careers on the foundation of a great attitude. Many of these sportspersons are talented, thoroughly intensive and extensive in their training, but that is not enough without a great attitude. No amount of professional and personal coaching or mentoring will take you places without a great attitude.
A great attitude is an indispensable requirement for good sporting performances and career achievements. Every sportsman’s performances and career achievements rise or fall on their attitude.
The good news is that attitudes are yours to choose and nurture. You can deliberately decide and design the type of attitude you are going to have. And once you choose and consciously develop it, in a matter of time you start that meteoric rise in your sports career. The optimum peak performer’s Beatitude states, “Blessed are the sportsmen and women with great attitudes, for theirs will be great performances and achievements.”
Outstanding performances will be your portion when you possess and harness the power of a great attitude in your sporting discipline. The same principle holds true for sporting clubs, institutions or organizations.
Great sporting organizations possess a good attitude towards their respective sports and clubs. A visit to these great sporting clubs, one would not help to notice a prevailing attitude that permeates the entire organization. This has been, is and will perpetually be the pre-requisite for stratospheric sports achievements for all individuals in sports.