Athlete Tough.  If I were to ask you what is the key to being mentally tough, what would you say the answer is?

Somewhere Someone Is Practicing and when you meet them in a head to head competition.... 

They'll BEAT you.

What is your passion? Can you make your work your passion? Your passion will give you enjoyment in the process. Your passion will give you enjoyment in the struggle. 

When you can tap in to your ultimate why, you become more resilient and powerful.  In this episode we break down The Power Behind Finding Your Why.

Why do you do the things you do? What is the reason for doing it? If you can establish an even bigger reason why, that reason why will help you get through the difficult days. Also, it is during your failures that you can lean on your reason why to keep you in the fight and help you get back on track. 

Your goal is to bombard your opponents with wave after wave of missile strikes to disorient, disrupt, disable, and demoralize them.

Over time, this combination of a purposeful, powerful, planned, precise, and persistent approach to competition is usually enough to eventually destroy most teams and force them to retreat or surrender.

Jeff Janssen, Janssen Sports Leadership Center

Your athletes will need to know exactly when, where, and how to strike your opponents to best weaken and disable them. How precisely your athletes are able to execute and adapt their game plan will have a big bearing on the final outcome.

Instead of relying solely on power to take down an opponent, especially one who has just as much or more firepower, they must develop a calculated and coordinated plan of attack designed to take out your opponent's strengths and target their weaknesses.

Competitiveness is, in essence, the harnessing of the explosive power of passion, desire, rage, and fury into a single streamlined, powerful, and destructive force, like a missile.

Determining a compelling purpose for the war is what generates the passion necessary for fighting fiercely. The more compelling the purpose is, the stronger the passion for fighting.