Sport has many benefits associated and regarding that should be part of our lifestyle to increase our life quality, these benefits are not only related with health, according some studies sport can also increase people’s confidence, self-esteem or even employability mostly among young people.

Nonetheless, sport can also help us to develop our personal and professional skills to become more competitive in everything we are involved daily. This is what athletes do, they focus their attention in what really matters to achieve the best results and be at the top.

Obstacles are not seen as an issue but part of the path to reach the goals and they are the main responsible to push athletes to the limits. Successful athletes are not afraid of the challenge because they have mental agility to think, improvise and adapt quickly according the situation.

If you do like sport you can take some good lessons from this field to apply it in your general life.

Few tips to get the most from sport for your career and life:

Think more about growth rather success

It is totally different if you set up your mind to succeed or to growth, if you think about success you can find two different paths, the positive one which you were working for (be successful) or the opposite one – failure. Just will fail those ones who make an attempt to reach something, yet if you think differently, changing the success for growth, your goal will be different you will still want to succeed but also everything that makes you better is welcome, so if you work hard to get something you will improve yourself, that will be a good result.

Keep practice even if you are good

Many top athletes affirm that when you are good you have to work harder to keep this level up otherwise you may not succeed, this world is too competitive. This means if you feel you are good in your job it is important keep working hard on it if you stop and relax you’ll lose some of your capacities and then you’ll need more from you to be on the top again – that will be tough.

Talk to yourself

It’s proved that if athletes talk to themselves using expressions as ‘you’re a winner’, ‘feeling good’, ‘dig deep’ when they are competing or just working out this will increase their motivation on that specific moment and also their energy will last longer. Just think about it if you tell to yourself ‘I can’t do it’, I feel tired’, that will putt you down you will feel weak and then you’ll give up. So, make sure next time you’ll be nice to yourself as you are to your best friend and your mind will respond positively.

You and You

If you believe in your potential you don’t need to look at others to see what you need to do you don’t need to think about other people when you are working to reach your goals, top athletes are confident enough to prepare their path to success because they feel unique.

Conclusion

Sport is not only about fitness or physical training when an athlete is out there competing the psychological part has a big impact on their results. If you are not an athlete the steps to succeed are similar and if you practice any sport you can take some values from it to your personal and professional life. These are also good practices to pass to kids in order to grow up with strong values and maybe become a ‘super athlete’ or at least a high potential person in the future.

References:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/worry-wise/201402/teach-your-child-think-olympic-athlete

http://www.self.com/fitness/2014/04/think-like-an-athlete/