Self-confidence helps in literally everything in life. And what better way to build it than as a youth on fields of play.
Kids play sports for many different reasons. It could be to make more friends, for the thrill of it, orto beat the other team. Perhaps it’s because kids come from sports families and are expected to play.
Whether a choice or force, athletes have a choice to make–to commit or not commit. If they commit, then one of the great outcomes of sports is building self-confidence. It’s the key to everything.
Through self-confidence you can defy the odds and pull off an upset against a superior team. And the great thing about self-confidence is that it doesn’t apply only to sports. You can walk into a classroom and feel you can master a subject–no matter what.
But just how do you build self-confidence?
You start by training hard. There’s no substitute for it. One of the greatest basketball players of our time, Michael Jordan, worked on his game through the middle of the night, building self-confidence to perform at the highest level.
Building self-confidence can also rub off on teammates. That’s because confidence dwells on the positive. You feel that you can compete and win and, often, others begin feeling the same way.
Believing you can win–and playing like it–helps in literally everything in life. It helps on the job, when responding to adversity, and for handling just about anything that comes your way.
And what better way to learn it than as on youth on fields of play.
