I recently learned about how to take the first step in becoming a person who is ready to change and grow. This first step requires a change in your emotions and logic at the same time. Learning requires that we take responsibility for our actions. We have to stop blaming others when we are unsatisfied.
What are the forces that make a player successful or unsuccessful? What or who is responsible for reaching a goal or the failure to achieve a goal? Answer: You are. When coaching there is only one way to motivate a kid. We have to do our job and teach kids they are empowered and successful results are earned. At City Beach we train players that the Locus of Control is internal. We coach from a cause and effect perspective, your action will directly equal your results. This mean that the player has just as much responsibility as the coach.
Locus of control is a theory in personality psychology referring to the extent to which individuals believe that they can control events that affect them. Understanding of the concept was developed by Julian B. Rotter in 1954, and has since become an important aspect of personality studies.
One's "locus" (Latin for "place" or "location") can either be internal (meaning the person believes that they control their life) or external (meaning they believe that their environment, some higher power, or other people control their decisions and their life). Individuals with a high internal locus of control believe that events result primarily from their own behavior and actions. Those with a high external locus of control believe that powerful others, fate, or chance primarily determine events.
So what or who do you believe is in control? Test your perspective click here
Here are a few quotes we like:
Put your future in good hands - your own ~Author Unknown
I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair ~Anaïs Nin
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. ~Norman Vincent Peale
Do your thoughts serve you well? ~ Jim McLaughlin
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. ~Sally Field
It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. ~Author Unknown
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right. ~Henry Ford
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. ~Peter T. Mcintyre
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. ~William Shakespeare
