It doesn’t matter how old or how young you are or your level of skill. All footballers make mistakes because of mental game errors. These errors can be caused by a lack of self-awareness and a lack of understanding about how to control your emotions, manage your confidence and improve your focus. All qualities attributed to Mentally Tough footballers.
In this article I’ll share a very common mental game mistake that I’ve come across from discussions with top coaches and supporting 100’s of footballers.
Trying To Be Perfect
Think about when you play your best football. What are you thinking about? Not much many people tend to say. You’re free and allow yourself to express your skills.
Now think about the following scenario’s and how they influence your thinking:
Do situations like the one’s about cause you to over think?
Over thinking often occurs during a match and can be counter-productive to producing a good performance. It can cause you to focus to try to be perfect to match your own and the expectations that others put on you.
Consciously trying to control your body when you try to pass, cross or shoot, it only makes things much more difficult. Over thinking about your technique goes to build up tension in your body, which means the your natural timing is going to be out of sync and then when you have to pass or cross the ball your “feel” will be all over the place resulting in you over or under hitting the ball.
If you’re driving a car and thought about where your left hand needed to go to change gear or what your foot needed to do to hit the accelerator you’d crash or hit the kerb, right!
3 Tips to Overcome Perfectionism
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