Norman Vincent Peale once wrote, “Change your thoughts and you will change your world.” As human beings, and in our case as athletes and coaches, we all have something in common: we are constantly making small decisions about how to respond to what happens in training and competition.
However, we have to get used to the fact that we cannot control everything and that it is not enough to decide to compete at our best, because there are also opponents who have the same goal and challenge us. So the external environment whether it is an opponent, the fans or the weather conditions are constantly testing us.
Of course we also make bad choices but we forget about it too often and like to remember only the correct choices
It is hard to admit that we are actually only as good as our last worst performance. As Djokovic often acknowledges so his goal is to minimize the difference between his best and worst performance. If the difference son in a handful of points one must understand that sports performance is but an endless series of small decisions, details, actions and thoughts. However, the consequences are far-reaching.”
With this kind of awareness, we must take responsibility for our choices and assume accountability.
In daily practice, it then becomes necessary to become aware of the decisions we make in competition, and to train ourselves to recognize the positive and negative ones in order to improve in the following competitions.
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