Planning is First Key to Success in Sports

How to be Successful: Lessons I learned from Sports!

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Jan 272011

Sports have always been a big part of my life. I grew up being involved with everything from dance and gymnastics to softball, basketball, volleyball, and even golf. There is not a better feeling than being a part of a team and working with other people to reach a goal: win!

Although I have grown up since then and the availability of sports teams to be a part of has diminished, my love for playing the game has not changed and the lessons I learned will stick with me for the rest of my life.

This past week I was thinking back over my glory days of being MVP or making All-Tournament Team to those days without awards where it was just fun to get out there and play! I truly miss being a part of a team and playing a game that I love.

However, through this reflection back on playing sports, I noticed all the lessons I learned that prepared me for success in life. These lessons are what allowed me to get where I am today.

Strategies to be Success in Sports & 5 Strategies to be Successful in Life

After pondering these lessons for a little while, I came up the top 5 success strategies that I learned from sports that can help you achieve your goals in life. Whether your goals are for business success, weight loss success, or success with just plain living a healthy life, they can be achieved. Here are the 5 I came up with as the most important for success followed by how you can translate all this sports talk into your personal success in life and in health.

Planning is First Key to Success in Sports

First, anyone who has ever been successful has had to plan for their success. In basketball we would plan by coming up with plays and various strategies that would allow us to beat our opponents. In dance or gymnastics there was always a routine to plan. Softball planning didn’t necessarily include plays or routines, but it did take strategic planning for the pitchers and what type of pitch they would throw in certain situations in order to be effective.

Planning is not limited to plays or routines or pitching lineups, but also involves having the right gear, the top players, and time to practice. Planning also requires setting goals and determining a plan of action for the team which usually revolved around being at practices and games, giving 100%, sportsmanship, etc.

Without the goals understood by all involved, it would make for lots of confusion when it came time to execute the plan. No one would know what needed to be done in order for the team to succeed. There would be no direction. For any dream of success, there must be direction! It is vital to have a vision, some goals, and a plan of action.

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