All great athletes have certain qualities in common.
The 10 Traits of Champion And How You Can Be One Traits 5-10
5. Take Massive and Consistent Action
You must train every single day in order
to be extraordinary. Lionel Messi once said this to a reporter, “I start early and I stay late, day after day, year after year. It
took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.”
You see, becoming a champion is not about being lucky.
6. The Passion Is the Key
Being
passionate is totally different than daydreaming about what you love but do
nothing. My definition of passion is that if you are truly passionate with what
you really love, you will spend time doing it and you will spend time
perfecting your skills there because you just love it and you wanted to do it
better than others.
So, if you are passionate about something but are not willing to act on it, maybe it is not something that you’re truly passionate in. Perhaps it is just your hobby and you have confused it with your passion. Passion is something that will catch your attention and make you work on it. It is something that you love doing and would sacrifice other things for it. So, are you passionate with what you do?
7. Sacrifice and Discipline
What
most people never see is the sacrifice and the many hours of time spent building
one’s self. You will reap what you sow. There’s a very powerful quote to
describe this, “Being a champion means living a few years of your life like
most people won’t, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people
can’t.”
You
need to sacrifice your free time, your play time and to have the discipline to
work hard on your goals. When you spend time partying and enjoying your fun
time, someone out there is working hard to get to the place where you want to
go. It may not be easy, but if you have the passion, things can be exciting for
you.
8. Turn Failure into Feedback
Yes,
champions are human beings and they do make mistakes at times. The difference
between a champion and an ordinary person is that an ordinary person will take
failure as failure.
Ordinary person: They set goals, face some setbacks, fail to get the results that they want, they throw in the towel and they quit in the end.
Champion: they set goals, face some setbacks, fail to get the results that they want, they turn the failure into feedback, change their strategy and they act again. They repeat to act and improve their strategies until they become a champion.
Remember,
every single person in this world does make some mistakes some of the time. The
key is how you deal with the failure. If you look at it as failure, it will
defeat your confidence level and you will eventually give up and quit. Champion
look at it differently. They take it as a challenge, and they will do whatever
it takes to accomplish what they set out for. For the champion, if others can
do it, they can do it as well.
9.
Composure, Poise and Presence
You can tell if someone possess the quality of a champion whenever you meet them. A champion talk’s differently, they think differently, and they act differently than normal people. They have their own composure, poise and presence. They will maintain balance under the most extreme adversity. They do not panic. They can focus, stay relaxed and continue to walk the walk. They stay positive and act confidently to handle stress.
10.
Never Give Up
There’s no giving up. Once you have
decided to become the champion in your field, there will be no giving up. If
you give up, you will never become the champion you want to be. A quitter will never win, and a winner will never quit.
You must understand that all the
obstacles and setbacks that happen to you happened to someone else too. If you
cannot stand and overcome the difficulties, you will never qualify to be a
champion.
Success
will never happen by luck. It is through the hard work,
the dedication and the commitment that shape who you are.
These
are the 10 traits of a champion. You may not able to learn and adopt them all
in a day. You will need to go through the journey in order to become who you
meant to be. It is the journey that will shape your character and it is the
journey that will bring you the result you desire.
(ALL practices are Voluntary) Which means that you don’t have to run with the team, you can run on your own. (Especially if you are sick or not feeling well, then you MUST run on your own)
1st- You MUST read and SIGN the 2020 SPORTS PARTICIPATION FORM (Located in the FYI section of this Blog), you MUST BRING a copy of this form to the FIRST practice that you attend. (If not, you will NOT be able to run with the team) This is per Murray District Guidelines.
2nd-If you are NOT feeling well (at all, or in anyway) YOU MUST STAY HOME/you cannot attend practice. No one wants to possibly get sick from you or another runner. PLEASE be Cautious.
3rd- As coaches per Murray District guidelines, we are REQUIRED to ask EACH runner a list pf questions. (These questions are listed in the FYI section of the Blog. (Daily questions) (If ANY answer is YES then you will NOT be able to attend practices with the team for that day. (You CAN run on your OWN, just not with the team)
4th- Also per Murray District Guidelines, we are REQUIRED to TAKE each runners temperature at EACH team practice. These WILL be recorded.
Don’t FORGET TO…. Put your weekly mileage total on the blog. The link is on the blog titled "2020 Summer Miles."
Don’t FORGET TO…. GET on STRAVA and PUT your MILES on after you RUN!!
Don’t FORGET TO…. Put YOUR email /Cell number on the Document in the links Titled EMAIL/CELL PHONE.
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