It’s a very important time of the year for many reasons. There are 39 days left in the year. Wow. It wasn’t September two minutes ago. Christmas is round the corner. I have been to Toys R Us today with Kobe and Marnie writing their massive list. They won’t be getting a copy of train your sports brain or my new home study course in their Christmas stocking…. more like Buzz Light year and Hello kitty.
RESILIENCE….
It has been a great weekend for sport watching some past and present clients. Lewis Moody is back in the No7 shirt and throwing himself at everything that moves. Great to see him back to his old self and overcoming his injuries. Makes my niggle in my left knee seem irrelevant. Lewis is a warrior who has bounced back from injury time and time again. His belief in his ability and his body to continually put himself on the line for club and country are a true sign of mental toughness or madness. I think a lot of the first and a little bit of the latter.
HUNGER & BELIEF
Lee Westwood has climbed back from the golfing abyss to recapture his great form of 2000 and win the Race to Dubai. It’s hard to imagine that Lee went from 5th in the world to over 200th in the rankings. I worked with him in that period of ascension when being No1 was a long way away to identify some areas to focus on.
What’s great about his crowning glory is that he never questioned his ability and more importantly had the hunger to be back at the top. He is mentally tough. You don’t win the number of tournaments that he has without being mentally strong anyway. That journey has been rewarded today. Congratulations to being European No1 again.
PERSISTENCE…
Reading FC win at home for the first time since January this year. The monkey is off the back. A great result and a testament of their progress as a group. Persistence is a valuable mindset in adversity. The mind needs evidence even when the outward signs are not showing.
A great job down there by Brendan Rogers, who said I was like winning a world cup. The players and the staff have seen that result coming. A long way to go in the season and I can see them climbing up the table now from here. Stay present….Let’s See What Happens!
A DECADE IN WAITING…..
A few weeks, Dundee Utd manager Craig Levine asked me to spend the day “training the football brain”. His first team squad were outstanding during the session, the academy players soaked it all up and the academy coaching staff, in a late session at the back end of a long day were very receptive to the tools and ideas.
I now check the results of Dundee Utd every week and today they beat Celtic 2-1 at home for the first time in a decade. Congratulations to all at Tannadice.
Have a great week,
Jamie
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