«Self-esteem and self-efficiency
Feedback: improve
When you do sport you have a natural tendency to observe yourself more to see if you improve physically or in your performance. Often more attention is paid to the error, the imperfection, the missed series, the day we did not train, the weight that we do not lose or the cellulite that does not disappear, rather than that towards the results achieved: the best health, the absence of breathlessness when climbing stairs, the 5 series done or the 10 workouts in a row not skipped.
The art of feedback comes to our rescue. Three tips that can teach us to transform criticism into nourishment for our growth in terms of self-efficiency.
First, when you feel that it is time for the "showdown" instead of starting out, telling you everything you are wrong, concentrate for a moment on telling yourself first how much right you are doing and / or have done up to that point. The first few times it will be difficult, but then you will see that it will be easy to learn to recognize the other side of the apple and tell yourself how good you have been up to that moment.
Secondly, tell yourself clearly and precisely what you did wrong or what you were less efficient than you hoped / wanted. At this stage it is important that you are precise, only in this way can what we commonly call error can become learning.
Finally, do not close with the bitter taste in your mouth but, returning to phase one, learn to emphasize again the good things obtained so far.
I bring you a personal example, I ride a bike for passion. Sometimes, I happen to miss a workout or train listlessly. The first thing I do is see how long I have been going out regularly and training well, then I start looking for the reasons for the lack of training and low performance; in this phase, instead of throwing myself down, I go in search of the real causes and I don't stop at answers such as time, sleep, I don't feel like it; I try to understand if I am resting badly, if I am eating too much or too little, or if I need to switch off or simply vary my training. Finally, I remember all the times I stopped and started with more strength and desire to pedal, and I I say that in the end, if I have always recovered, this time too it will be like this, it is enough just to find the right "spring." This allows me to understand the real reasons for the decline in performance while respecting my self-esteem.
Still not convinced that mistakes made and missed workouts can help you improve? Then simply ask yourself a question: "What have I learned from this mistake?". If we are not wrong, we do not have the opportunity to learn: remember that!
Conclusion
Today we learned three important new concepts: self-esteem, self-efficacy and feedback. Now, as good sportsmen accustomed to action, I suggest you bring them into your life. Feel your self-esteem and live it to the fullest: remember that your self-esteem must be high and constant throughout your life and that no one will ever tell you how much you are worth. as men, but only estimate how much your sporting actions and gestures are worth. This also applies to ourselves, learning to focus and measure our actions instead of us as people. Having clarified this concept, you can focus on your self-efficiency. The advice is to measure your performance consistently and carefully, knowing that there can be ups and downs, areas where you will be more efficient and areas where you will be less. Once you have observed the ups and downs of your sporting efficiency, all that remains is to engage in the art of feedback. Think of the feedback as a pad you need to improve. The initial and final layer will be as sweet as you need to do. the point of the situation on how much good you have done so far. The center may be bitter but like all pills it will help to make you feel better. Remember, in fact, that the best athlete is not the one who errs less but the one who makes the most learns from their mistakes.
Bibliography
Beltran O., 2009, Ecological Doping, Ediciclo.
Giovannini L., 2008, A Whole "Other Life, Sperling & Kupfer.
Grout J. and Perrin S., 2006, Mind Games, Capstone
