A few weeks ago I introduced you to track coach Stuart McMillan and his weekly blog called "A Very Stable Idiot" where he discusses all sorts of things each week in a ramblings sort of way.
This topic is from one his weekly blogs a few weeks back on the self management process that he read about written by Peter F Drucker.
At local/amateur levels of football there are players from all different backgrounds, vastly different playing abilities as well as playing for a variety of different reasons which usually ends up resulting in a fair bit of unevenness across the board and the coach and left to try and tie it all together each and every Saturday.
Here's what he talked about:
* Determine what are your strengths and focus on them
* Developing your weaknesses is required, but don't put in anywhere near as much time and effort as your strengths
* Putting a lot of time in your weaknesses might only result in going from poor to mediocre level rather then going from good to great
* Your strength/s define who you are
* Through an honest assessment determine what conditions you perform best under, are you a natural leader. are you assertive, are you a workhorse or are you a jet?
* You need to knowing your function within the team and hopefully this is noticed by your coach and teammates.
* Your values is your ultimate test so how do you want others to recognise you and how do you want to recognise yourself?
* Do you need to change to fit what you want it to be?
* Where, what and how can you contribute to your team based all of the above
* the change/s should be difficult to achieve, the results should be meaningful and the results should be visible and measurable
* Give yourself a lot of time to make and instill these changes, maybe up to 18 months
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