Goal Setting. The Key to Maximum Success

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1 Goal Setting The Key to Maximum Success

2 3 Only % of us have written, measureable goals!

3 Richard Quick Olympic Coach

4 Reaching Your Goals is Like Following a Road map The Final Destination is your Long Term Goal The Route you take is your Season or Career Plan The Stops along the way are your Short Term Goals

5 Long Term Goals What do you ultimately want to accomplish? Clearly define your Long Term Goal. Recognize your Starting Point.

6 What is your Route? Talk with your coach about your Training Plan. What detours are on your route (vacations, school events, etc.)? What are your big and small meets during the season?

7 Short Term Goals Evaluate your progression by setting smaller goals along the way. Long term goals alone provide no feedback or specific direction.

8 Process Goals Help athletes focus on the process of performance as opposed to solely on performance outcome. Process goals are in the swimmers control Positive goals that relate to athletic performance: Training Goals Technical Goals Psychological Goals Nutritional Goals Lifestyle Goals Team Goals

9 Training Goals Do your Performance Goals match up with what you are willing to do at practice? 1. Attendance 2. Intensity 3. Focus

10 Technical Goals Do you have to make technical changes to accomplish your Performance Goals? Does your coach have suggestions or ideas regarding your technique?

11 Psychological Goals Are you always mentally prepared for competition and practice? Do you use positive or negative thoughts to motivate yourself? Can you visualize yourself being successful before you compete or practice?

12 Nutritional Goals Do your nutritional habits help or hurt your chances of achieving your Performance Goals? Do you have access to good nutritional information? Who should you ask?

13 Lifestyle Goals Do the choices you make away from the pool help or hurt your chances of achieving your Performance Goals? Are your friends and family supportive of the goals you want to accomplish?

14 Team Goals Where is your team headed? What are the team goals? Win State? More qualifiers? What are you doing to support your teammates? What is your role in your team s success?

15 Why Set Goals? Goal Setting provides direction and Enhances Motivation. Remind you where you want to go and how you are going to get there. Practices can be physically and mentally draining; goals reinforce why you are there and what you are trying to accomplish at each training session.

16 Why should you Set Goals? Goal Setting builds confidence and provides feedback. Reaching your short-term goals builds confidence not only in your abilities but in the path you have chosen towards your Long Term goals. Short-term goals that are evaluated regularly provide you with feedback about your progression toward your Long-term goals.

17 Goal Setting Tips Be specific! Broad goals do not offer much guidance. Goals must be realistic and challenging. Goals that are too easy or too difficult will not provide many benefits. Evaluate your goals regularly. Provides feedback and confidence because progress can be noted Be flexible. Things change; good and bad. The goals must be yours. They can t be your coach s or your parent s. Be public. Share your goals with family, friends and coaches. Use Your Goals Not achieving a goal doesn t make you a failure! Reset Your Goals As you Approach Them Avoid time spent without goals

18 Quotes The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. Muhammad Ali

19 Quotes What should young people do to become a success? Practice signing autographs! Tug McGraw

20 Quotes I said I am the greatest!, long before I was the greatest. Muhammad Ali

21 Tony Robbins Quote

22 Maren Reeder GO! GO! GO! Now I know I'll have victory I'm now passing the flags I'll surely make history Push my arms forward hit the wall hard I look at the lanes I'm first by a yard My time's a 34 Yeah! It's best in state I wonder why I ever thought that kid, not me, would celebrate.

23 Where to Post Your Goals Screen Saver (Thanks, Molly) Mirror Light Switch Refrigerator Door Dashboard

24 Brian Goodell The 1500 Freestyle Gold Medal that almost didn t happen.

25 Chicken Soup for the Soul

26 What about You? Can you make a picture for yourself?

27 Mistakes happen, too! I ll probably forget my glasses 32.1, right? I can t swim the 100 fly. I die everytime right there. (Angel Meyers Martino points to a particular spot in the pool)

28 Roger Federer

29 Jim Nance/Fred Couples In 1978 Fred Couples, on the golf team at University of Houston and Jim Nantz, a broadcast journalism student at the time, had actually role played the act of Fred winning the Masters at Augusta and Jim holding a microphone interviewing Fred as he was handed the Master s Green Jacket behind the iconic 18th green.

30 Jim Nance/Fred Couples In 1992 Couples won the Masters and was interviewed by Nantz for CBS.

31 Celebrate Your Success!

32 Goal Affirmations Personal Positive Present Tense Achievement Action Words Emotion Words Accuracy Realistic I am excited to be a AA swimmer with a time of 1:55.43 or faster at the XYZ Meet

33 Goal Affirmations Personal Positive Present Tense Achievement Action Words Emotion Words Accuracy Realistic I hope I don t miss my turn. I am thrilled with my super fast turns! I wish I could make finals. I am excited to always be a finalist!

34 Goal Affirmations Personal Positive Present Tense Achievement Action Words Emotion Words Accuracy Realistic My coach wants me to make Nationals. I am proud to be a National Qualifier at least 3 events! I m going to go 10 seconds for the 50 free! I am thrilled to be the first person under 17 seconds in the 50!

35 Writing Goal Affirmations Start with the words, I am Use the Present Tense State Positively (What you want, not what you don t want) Include an Action Word ending in ing Include at least one Emotion Word Add the phrase or something better ACTION WORD EXAMPLES: striving, fulfilling, training, learning, swimming, attempting, winning, gaining, EMOTION WORD EXAMPLES: thrilled, excited, stoked, enthusiastic, proud, jubilant, confident, pumped, glad, delighted, joyous, happy, amazed

36 Read your goal affirmations at least twice a day!

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38 What actions have you taken today to bring you closer to your breakthrough goals?

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