May 13, 2020 | Tagged Motivation,
Three Ways to Improve your Basketball Consistency
“Consistency: It's the jewel worth wearing; It's the anchor worth weighing; It's the thread worth weaving; It's a battle worth winning.” Charles Swindoll
Consistency is key to your success in basketball. It is the will to follow through with excellence day in and day out on your goals and objectives. Consistency isn’t flashy or glamorous. It’s about grit and the down to earth dedication and discipline necessary to be your best. Eric V. Holtzclaw, the Company Strategist, writes, “Many efforts fail before they get to the finish line, but not because the tactic was flawed or goals weren't clear. The problem is often that the team simply didn't stay the course to achieve the objective.”
Consistency is derived from the Latin, “to stand firm.” Consistency is the ability to accurately replicate an action successfully with steadfast tenacity. It’s your ability through thick and thin to cross the line on tasks and to deliver a standard level of excellence.
Inconsistency is the frustrating fluctuation that occurs in performance, execution, or follow-through. Inconsistency is a bane for basketball teams and an exasperation for coaches, parents, and students alike.
Here are three ways to be more consistent.
Energize, Strategize and Habitualize
ENERGIZE
Energy is always a barometer of health. Energy always emerges out of passion and desire. What are your dreams? Are you dreaming big enough? Small dreams equal low energy and low passion.
If you are struggling to discover what dream to pursue, pay attention to your passions. What do you love and what do you hate? How can your energy or lack of energy inform you of what you want to be consistent about? Passion always ignites energy. If you feel no energy find out why. Consistency always starts with energy.
Inconsistency is an energy crisis. Find out what is robbing your energy and your drive to follow through. Discover the drain and you can figure out why you are not being consistent.
STRATEGIZE
Patience and long-suffering are necessary for consistency. There’s going to be a pain, there’s going to be setbacks, there’s going to be dark moments. Therefore, it is so important to strategize. You must strategize to find ways to maintain your energy and keep going when the difficulty strikes. Difficulty in life always happens. It is not a matter of if but when. Your ability to strategize how to maintain consistency even in difficulty will enable you to weather the storms that cause others to quit.
HABITUALIZE
Habits are your friend. They are your backbone. According to research, those who have high-level consistency spend no time in deliberation whether they will indulge in an activity or not. They’ve been so dedicated to their discipline that the argument or the decision-making has already been pre-made. They don’t waste time in the ambiguity of the choice. The first 90 days of making a task, a workout, a discipline into a habit is the hardest. Your dedication to make it through the first 90 days until you have habitualized the qualities or behaviors you want for your future is the battle that is the hardest. The next 90 days will also be hard, but each round of success builds greater resolve within yourself and greater consistency.
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