Athlete Mindset Flashcards

Developing "Athlete Mindset Cards" is an alternative to buying commercially available ones. The quality of those available appears intriguing. 

Disadvantages: 

• Time and energy expended
• Not "off the shelf"

Advantages: 

• Inexpensive 
• Immediately available for distribution
• Enduring yet modifiable with time
• Customized to your philosophy
• Solicit team input "this is who we are"
• Easily distributed to players (e.g. email)
• "This is the way." Everyone gets on the same page. 
• Can specify for volleyball or generalized domains (sports, business)

TOUGHNESS

Core values of TEAMWORK, IMPROVEMENT, ACCOUNTABILITY

Seamless with PSYCHOLOGY of RESILIENCE, ATHLETICISM

"THRIVE UNDER PRESSURE"

Transformational and transmitted from veteran to young players

"SHARED TEAM OWNERSHIP"

A "FORCE MULTIPLIER" that makes everyone better

"Real" not "Fake toughness" of trash talk and stare downs 

AVAILABLE philosophy "In the Moment" 

Lagniappe. A young player gets it. Success begins inside each of us as we fight the daily battles.  Quote from Hugo Gonzalez, Celtics draft choice in The Boston Globe... “Playing for Real Madrid Academy since I was 10, it was almost like playing for a team that winning was a must every year for every title,” he said. “So I’m pretty used to team success. It’s the first and the main thing for the whole season. It’s nothing that I need to learn. It’s something that I already have in my DNA. So I think that’s going to help a franchise like the Celtics too and I hope that it does.”