Feeling Like Your Sports Dream Is Out Of Reach

05/29/20 • 32 min

You've got a dream to be a professional athlete in your sport. Playing the sport you love! Living and breathing it. Being paid to do it. Training for it. Travelling the country amd the world competing. You have lots of fans and built a following of supporters plus you have the home you have always wanted and a really cool car to drive around in.

But how does that dream come true when it feels still so far away?

You are stuck where you are and you struggle to see yourself as that professional athlete because the reality is that you are just not there yet.

Should you stop dreaming?

Absolutely not, you must have that dream. But we have to turn it into something more than it just being in your head.

We need a map on how to get there. Like you have a map of driving from LA to New York or Sydney to Perth. You need to know what roads to take.

This is what you must do to map out your dream. We are going to start with the end in mind, work through 5 phases and work our way backwards.

PHASE 5 - LIVING YOUR SPORTS DREAM

detail how you are living your dream
what events are you playing
what events you are winning
what your world ranking is
what team you are playing with
who is on your team if individual sports person
who are your sponsors
how much are you earning
where you are living
what you own
every detail of your dream
member of Get Focused Academy

PHASE 4 - COMPETING AT NATIONAL LEVEL

detail your skill level - technique
detail your skill level - mental
detail your skill level - fitness
the tournaments you are competing in
the type of training you are doing
what's your national ranking
what's your world ranking
who are your sponsors
who's in your team
every detail at this level
member of Get Focused Academy

PHASE 3 - COMPETING AT STATE LEVEL

detail your skill level - technique
detail your skill level - mental
detail your skill level - fitness
the tournaments you are competing in
the type of training you are doing
what's your state ranking
what's your national ranking
who are your sponsors
who's in your team
every detail at this level
member of Get Focused Academy

PHASE 2 - COMPETING AT REGIONAL LEVEL

detail your skill level - technique
detail your skill level - mental
detail your skill level - fitness
the tournaments you are competing in
the type of training you are doing
what's your regional ranking
who are your sponsors
who's in your team
every detail at this level
member of Get Focused Academy

*PHASE 1 - COMPETING AT LOCAL LEVEL - YOUR STARTING POINT *

detail your skill level - technique
detail your skill level - mental
detail your skill level - fitness
the tournaments you are competing in
the type of training you are doing
who's in your team
every detail at this level
working through Successful Athletes Masterclass
read book FOCUS - How to Reach Your Potential In Sport, Business & Life
member of Get Focused Academy

By the way this is what we work on in the Get Focused Academy www.tiffanymika.com/gf-academy plus the Athlete Success System which is in the Get Focused Academy!

Have you signed up for the FREE Successful Athletes Masterclass?

In this I show you;

what's holding you back from accomplishing your goals.
how to get your mindset right for striving towards your future (your destiny).
how to identify your strengths and weakness in your sport and your mental side of your sport.
how to craft your plan to go after your sports goals in a strategic way.

Do you want to Reach Your Potential?

Get a FREE COPY of FOCUS - How to reach your potential in sport, business and life.

Go to www.tiffanymika.com/freebook

Have an absolutely awesome day and remember, Dream Big, Believe In You & Go After Your Dreams.

To your abundance,

Tiffany Mika

P.S. Leave a comment and share with me what you liked best about what you heard today... thank you.

Connect With Tiff Here:
Instagram: www.instagram.com/tif...

But how does that dream come true when it feels still so far away?

You are stuck where you are and you struggle to see yourself as that professional athlete because the reality is that you are just not there yet.

Should you stop dreaming?

Absolutely not, you must have that dream. But we have to turn it into something more than it just being in your head.

We need a map on how to get there. Like you have a map of driving from LA to New York or Sydney to Perth. You need to know what roads to take.

This is what you must do to map out your dream. We are going to start with the end in mind, work through 5 phases and work our way backwards.

PHASE 5 - LIVING YOUR SPORTS DREAM

detail how you are living your dream
what events are you playing
what events you are winning
what your world ranking is
what team you are playing with
who is on your team if individual sports person
who are your sponsors
how much are you earning
where you are living
what you own
every detail of your dream
member of Get Focused Academy

PHASE 4 - COMPETING AT NATIONAL LEVEL

detail your skill level - technique
detail your skill level - mental
detail your skill level - fitness
the tournaments you are competing in
the type of training you are doing
what's your national ranking
what's your world ranking
who are your sponsors
who's in your team
every detail at this level
member of Get Focused Academy

PHASE 3 - COMPETING AT STATE LEVEL

detail your skill level - technique
detail your skill level - mental
detail your skill level - fitness
the tournaments you are competing in
the type of training you are doing
what's your state ranking
what's your national ranking
who are your sponsors
who's in your team
every detail at this level
member of Get Focused Academy

PHASE 2 - COMPETING AT REGIONAL LEVEL

detail your skill level - technique
detail your skill level - mental
detail your skill level - fitness
the tournaments you are competing in
the type of training you are doing
what's your regional ranking
who are your sponsors
who's in your team
every detail at this level
member of Get Focused Academy

*PHASE 1 - COMPETING AT LOCAL LEVEL - YOUR STARTING POINT *

detail your skill level - technique
detail your skill level - mental
detail your skill level - fitness
the tournaments you are competing in
the type of training you are doing
who's in your team
every detail at this level
working through Successful Athletes Masterclass
read book FOCUS - How to Reach Your Potential In Sport, Business & Life
member of Get Focused Academy

By the way this is what we work on in the Get Focused Academy www.tiffanymika.com/gf-academy plus the Athlete Success System which is in the Get Focused Academy!

Have you signed up for the FREE Successful Athletes Masterclass?

In this I show you;

what's holding you back from accomplishing your goals.
how to get your mindset right for striving towards your future (your destiny).
how to identify your strengths and weakness in your sport and your mental side of your sport.
how to craft your plan to go after your sports goals in a strategic way.

Do you want to Reach Your Potential?

Get a FREE COPY of FOCUS - How to reach your potential in sport, business and life.

Go to www.tiffanymika.com/freebook

Have an absolutely awesome day and remember, Dream Big, Believe In You & Go After Your Dreams.

To your abundance,

Tiffany Mika

P.S. Leave a comment and share with me what you liked best about what you heard today... thank you.

Connect With Tiff Here:
Instagram: www.instagram.com/tif...

Previous Episode

Striving In Lockdown: Learning From Feedback

How do you progress in your sport?

How do you progress in your life?

You learn from feedback!

Of course there will be positive feedback and negative feedback but I believe negative feedback can also be seen as positive feedback as it shows you what not to do!

When things are working well - positive feedback - it's telling you what you are doing is working, therefore you keep going.

When things are not working - negative feedback - -it is showing you what not to do therfore it will be time to make a change.

What we want to do is to devise strategies to overcome those areas that are not working.

By the way this is what we work on in the Get Focused Academy www.tiffanymika.com/gf-academy plus the Athlete Success System which is in the Get Focused Academy!

Learning from feedback is crucial for your development in your sport and in your life. Any mistakes that you make remember it is just feedback. And we all make mistakes regularly.

Here is a simple exercise for you to do;

Identify what mistakes you have made today.
What was the feedback you received from the mistakes?
From what you have discovered, what are you going to do to move forward.

Let's GO!

Let's Crush it!

Have you signed up for the FREE Successful Athletes Masterclass?

In this I show you;

what's holding you back from accomplishing your goals.
how to get your mindset right for striving towards your future (your destiny).
how to identify your strengths and weakness in your sport and your mental side of your sport.
how to craft your plan to go after your sports goals in a strategic way.

Do you want to Reach Your Potential?

Get a FREE COPY of FOCUS - How to reach your potential in sport, business and life.

Go to www.tiffanymika.com/freebook

Have an absolutely awesome day and remember, Dream Big, Believe In You & Go After Your Dreams.

To your abundance,

Tiffany Mika

P.S. Leave a comment and share with me what you liked best about what you heard today... thank you.

Connect With Tiff Here:
Instagram: www.instagram.com/tiffanymikacox/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/tiffanymikatakesaction
Twitter: www.twitter.com/tiffanymika
Website: www.tiffany-mika.com
Email: [email protected]

Next Episode

Striving In Lockdown: Quick Tips The Finale

These are the Quick Tips for the Lockdown Series. They are short and sweet so you get the main points to get on with it!

Quick Tip: What You Don't Want Versus What You Do Want

Take this opportunity to figure out what you want in your life.

Here is how you are going to do it;

Make a list of everything you don't want in your life
Make a list of everything you do want in your life

It will help make things much clearer for you!

Quick Tip: Managing Yourself And Your Energy

What we are focusing on in this quick tip is focusing on you managing yourself and your energy.

What I mean by this is;

looking after nutritional health
looking after your physical health
looking after your mental health (comfortable in your own skin)
looking after yourself - selfcare - downtime and rest

Here is some structure for you to start bouncing back!

Meditation
Eat Well - Proper Nutrition
Train for your sport
Focus on your goals
Hydrate
Rest
Affirmations

Quick Tip: Foundations Are Key

There are two most important areas you must be working on in your sport.

Your technical skills
Your mental skills

They both work hand in hand.

There are 2 Challenges I have set for you;

Choose a technical skill that you are weak at or avoid and work on it for 10 minutes per day.
Choose a mental skill that you are weak at or avoid and work on it for 10 minutes per day.
Work on both of these skills for 30 days and share the results with me after that time.

Quick Tip: Essential Habits

More than ever I believe that this is the time you must redefine your habits that will help you strive forward rather than having habits that leave you floundering in fear, anxiety, stress, sad or depressed.

We don't want to be floundering!

It's time to get back and re-focus!

This is what I want you to do!

Identify all the habits you have developed in lockdown.
For each habit ask the question - does this habit move me closer or further away from any goal?
(if answer is further away - eliminate the habit)
(if answer is toward - keep the habit)
What new habits can you implement to get you closer to your goal?

Quick Tip: Overcoming The Roadblocks

We have all been thrown the biggest challenge we have had to face in our lifetime thus far with the Coronavirus (Covid-19).

It has been a surreal time.

However this will not be the only challenge, obstacle or roadblock you will face in your life. There will always be more obstacles, roadblocks and challenges that will be thrown at you therefore we want to work through each one and never let any of them hold us back.

And this is the series of questions I want you to ask yourself each time you are thrown a roadblock, challenge or obstacle.

What are the roadblocks, challenges or obstacles that are in your way right now?
For each roadblock, challenge or obstacle brainstorm ideas how you can overcome them.
What are the action steps you will put in place to overcome the roadblock, challenge or obstacle?
What days will you work on these throughout your week?

Quick Tip: Grinding It Out

When I say Grinding It Out I am not referring to grinding out the lockdown or guiding you through the restrictions.

What I am talking about here is doing the work. All the striving in lockdown series is designed for you to keep going, to keep pushing and to keep moving forward.

And this is the same with the Grinding It Out episode.

The hardest part in anything that you do is "the work".

Here is how you want to approach Grinding It Out;

Pick 6 areas in your sport that will move you closer to accomplishing your big sports dream.
Pick 3 out of those 6 areas you have identified and work on them every second day.
The other 3 areas left over work on them the alternate days.

Quick Tip: Take Control Of Your Emotions

How you feel is the result of how you think and what are your beliefs.

However here are the 3 main actions steps you can work on in taking control of your emotions.

Positive Phrases when you compete - what are positive phrases you can use when you are competing?
Stop & Take A Breath - if you can stop for a moment and breathe - regain your thoughts and slow down.
Focus on Staying In The Moment - just do the best you can do in the moment.

Quick Tip: Being Consistent

Being consistent is one of the major keys to being successful.

Especially with how you operate as a person a...