Dear Coach, Parents, Players
Welcome to this addition of the JAM League newsletter. Continue to view our website as our 20th spring league fast approaches. Valuable information regarding JAM night with the Nuggets, tournament,summer camp,and basketball clinic info is all available at www.jamball.com. Our #1 priority for JAM continues helping coaches and parents build confidence in today’s youth. Continue setting goals to make sure plans are in line to improve your game.
- Mark Sharpley
Applying the Finishing Touches.
Winners win because they always finish whatever they start. Always. They start a project and then keep working until the task is completed. They start,they work,they finish. When winning is reduced down to its lowest common denominator, getting to the finish line is the only thing that really counts.
It’s virtually impossible for anyone to get anywhere if they consistently fail to finish those things they start. A half hearted effort or half baked idea does not count for much in the big scheme of things. A job only halfway completed or task left undone rarely paves the way to the winner’s circle. When a winner starts a project, he or she sees it through to completion.
Do you consistently finish those things you start? Are you absolutely committed to seeing your projects through to conclusion? No matter how good you are at finishing the jobs you undertake (or how bad for that matter),there is always considerable room for improvement.
Finishing anything and everything that needs to be finished is not nearly as difficult as we sometimes make it. All it takes to insure finishing each and every job is to start it! Simply get started and then just keep on plugging away until the job is completed.
Unfortunately, for many the very act of getting started sometimes becomes an almost insurmountable obstacle. Let’s face it; all of us have been guilty of procrastinating and putting things off more times than we wish to remember. We know what is needed to do, but for one reason or another we just cannot seem to get started.
We put off here, we dawdle over there. Over time, motivation wanes and eventually erodes, leaving nothing to show for the effort (or lack of effort) but a task left undone. Is there a better way than a swift kick in the rump to overcome this hesitance or reluctance to get started?
When we are actively engaged in the pursuit of dreams, rarely do we want to stop or slow down. We love what were doing and as a result, thoroughly enjoy every single moment. The activity inspires and motivates action.
Finding our self caught up in the enterprise, overcome with an overwhelming desire to keep working until we finish the project is breath taking. After all, if something is worth doing, then it is most assuredly worth finishing.
In order to provide the proper motivation to get any project started, sit down and visualize in resplendent detail all of the benefits you will derive as a result of successfully completing the venture in mind. Feel the excitement of putting your heart and soul into the undertaking. Put your best to the test, pushing yourself well beyond any self imposed boundaries.
Then once the project is complete, savor the moment as you bask in the limelight, experiencing the unparalleled exhilaration of victory. This sensory rich mental picture should provide more than sufficient impetus for you to get any worthwhile project underway.
Once you start a project is started, it is only a matter of time before you finish it. Winners start, winners work, winners finish. When you incorporate this visualization process into your pre-game planning, getting started will ease the next problem or task that arises.
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