Work Hard To Achieve Self Respect – Winning Is A Byproduct

Sports parents and coaches are constantly preaching to their young athletes to work hard to achieve their goals.

Rightfully so!

However, adults forget that kids have a hard time really getting the concept of “delayed gratification.” Meaning, work hard now for a payoff later.  As the youth mental toughness trainer having been inside many kids’ heads, I have found ways of using the kids’ natural motivation for “instant gratification” and in the video below, I give you one.

If you only play for wins and losses and performance reasons you are missing out on a powerful motivational factor that I teach the kids’ in this clip from the basketball mental toughness program: