Oblek Embarrassed Lloris
Oblek Embarrassed Lloris
Motivation is totally misunderstood by the average fan.
A manager giving a motivational team talk is not effective or lasting motivation.
Fans ask why a manager can't motivate his players, well, sorry but that isn't how motivation works.
That is external and gives an instant up, but it can also then be an instant down for some when they leave the room or it may last for 10 minutes depending upon how the game is going.
Fans ask why a manager can't motivate his players, well, sorry but that isn't how motivation works.
That is external and gives an instant up, but it can also then be an instant down for some when they leave the room or it may last for 10 minutes depending upon how the game is going.
Motivation is not the same as changing some tactics to counter an opponent or exploit a weakness, that is the application of a set of skills.
Lasting motivation can ONLY come from within (internal).
If you lack motivation, you simply lack clarity of purpose.
What does each individual actually want?
The group has a goal, aims and must have plans as to how they are achieved, but within that what will motivate each player for them to perform at their optimum?
Take Hugo Lloris, a World Cup winner. He ha made mistakes in the last two games that have cost goals, quite apart from all the mistakes he was making prior to injuring himself making a mistake!
Did you watch the Liverpool v Atletico Madrid game?
The Atletico goalkeeper Jan Oblek was in a different league to Hugo Lloris, but both were playing in the same round of the Champions League.
Why was Oblek more focused, more determined, more motivated to produce a top-class performance where Lloris merely produces a below-average one?
The answer is inside Lloris's head, not with Mourinho.
I maintain a sports psychologist should be getting the problem from inside his head, but that isn't happening. Nobody knows how to motivate him because nobody knows what motivates him.
What motivates you doesn't motivate someone else. Most people don't know what motivates them, what they think motivates them, doesn't.
What does each individual actually want?
The group has a goal, aims and must have plans as to how they are achieved, but within that what will motivate each player for them to perform at their optimum?
Take Hugo Lloris, a World Cup winner. He ha made mistakes in the last two games that have cost goals, quite apart from all the mistakes he was making prior to injuring himself making a mistake!
Did you watch the Liverpool v Atletico Madrid game?
The Atletico goalkeeper Jan Oblek was in a different league to Hugo Lloris, but both were playing in the same round of the Champions League.
Why was Oblek more focused, more determined, more motivated to produce a top-class performance where Lloris merely produces a below-average one?
The answer is inside Lloris's head, not with Mourinho.
I maintain a sports psychologist should be getting the problem from inside his head, but that isn't happening. Nobody knows how to motivate him because nobody knows what motivates him.
What motivates you doesn't motivate someone else. Most people don't know what motivates them, what they think motivates them, doesn't.
If you can change your habits or behaviour then you can change your life.
It takes moments to begin to change habits, some may be quick, some may take more time.
Making something 1% better, unless you are at the very top level of sport, isn't going to make a huge difference, but consistently making components 1% better adds up over time to significant improvement.
Take saving.
No, I didn't understand that either.
If you start with £1,000 and increase it by 1% a month you end up with £1,127 after a year, a 12.7% increase.
Is a 12.7% increase in performance a significant factor in a football team?
You bet it is, so if you were a football player, would you want to improve your game by just 1% each month?
That could be nutrition, like Harry Kane, or free-kick taking (remember Eriksen once had a great spell but clearly stopped the practice intensity and performance dropped).
It could be in any area, positioning, game awareness, striking the ball, accuracy, decision making, analysis, concentration, the areas are vast.
How about motivation?
How many football players do you think look to improve their motivation skills?
I'd answer, none. I'm sure you don't in your general lives.
Yet motivation is just a skill, it is an emotion you can engineer.
So why then do we not engineer a more motivated side, a side more motivated to improve as a group and as individuals?
Why aren't Spurs maximising that?
Why aren't Spurs maximising that?
Football coaches don't know how to achieve that skill and thus it isn't applied.
It can't work if it is outside your knowledge base, right?
It can't work if you don't understand it, that's how people think.
It can't work if it is outside your knowledge base, right?
It can't work if you don't understand it, that's how people think.
It is outside your comfort zone, outside a coach's comfort zone.
It's a specialist area.
It's a specialist area.
Do you think innovators, inventors, achievers, stay within their comfort zone?
Some people enjoy wealth because they are not prepared to stay within their comfort zone and begin businesses to push themselves.
Others stay within their comfort zone and work for them to make the owner rich.
Others stay within their comfort zone and work for them to make the owner rich.
That will no doubt offend the prickly amongst you, but it's a fact, sorry to be blunt.
Back to our habits.
What is a habit?
A habit is the compound interest of self-improvement.
What is a habit?
A habit is the compound interest of self-improvement.
Good habits make time is your friend, bad habits make time your enemy.
It makes sense therefore to develop good habits.
If you can learn to master the development of good habits then you can make time work for you instead of against you.
If you can learn to master the development of good habits then you can make time work for you instead of against you.
I talk about improving our clinical finishing when we are 3-0, 4-0 up, but for years we haven't.
Would that have been serving us well over the last month if we had begun that development process?
Would that have been serving us well over the last month if we had begun that development process?
Instead, we have been lackadaisical for years because it didn't really matter, we were winning that particular game and it wouldn't affect the result.
Is that the mentality of winners, is that a winning mentality?
No, it is the mentality of those who try their best, but fail.
No, it is the mentality of those who try their best, but fail.
So how do we develop good habits?
There are four stages.
Stage 1: Noticing
Stage 2: Wanting
Stage 3: Doing
Stage 4: Liking
You have to notice something before you can take an action.
You can not improve your motivation if you don't know you have a motivational issue.
There are four stages.
Stage 1: Noticing
Stage 2: Wanting
Stage 3: Doing
Stage 4: Liking
You have to notice something before you can take an action.
You can not improve your motivation if you don't know you have a motivational issue.
You can not improve something if you are in self-denial about it.
Take all the anti-Levy anti_ENIC people who don't know how the club is run and are still living 20 years in the past when an owner could use his own money to buy players or pay wages.
That ended 10 years ago, yet a swath of our supporters still cling to that belief as it suits their anti-Spurs approach.
They are in self-denial, they don't see that they have an issue so do nothing about it.
Take all the anti-Levy anti_ENIC people who don't know how the club is run and are still living 20 years in the past when an owner could use his own money to buy players or pay wages.
That ended 10 years ago, yet a swath of our supporters still cling to that belief as it suits their anti-Spurs approach.
They are in self-denial, they don't see that they have an issue so do nothing about it.
You have to see a cup of tea before you can pick it up.
If you don't know it exists, you can't pick it up.
To pick it up, you then have to want it.
If you don't want to drink it, you won't pick it up.
When you desire it and start to drink it, you must like it to want to do it again.
A study was conducted using three groups.
With the first, they told them that they just wanted to track how often they exercised.
That group set the standard, the benchmark for the others to measure them against.
The second group was asked to track their exercise and they were given a motivational speech/presentation about the benefits of a healthy heart and why exercise helps.
The third group were given the same motivational speech/presentation and a sentence they had to read out loud.
During the next week, I will take part in at least 20 minutes of vigorous exercise on [Day] at [Time of Day] at [Place].
What were the results?
From the control group, 38% exercised at least once a week.
From Group 2, 25% exercised at least once a week.
External motivation had no effect on them at all, indeed they exercised less than the unmotivated control group!
Group 3, those who stated what they were going to do, those who had a definite plan?
91% exercised at least once a week.
Clear evidence that the individual motivates themselves to do what they want to do.
You can increase your chances of success by 2 x or 3 x by having a specific plan.
They had clarity of purpose.
Do you see why I insist we must use sports psychologists are a compulsory part of training to understand what motivates a player so the manager can tap into it?
It is just so out of date, so yesteryear that we don't and I maintain we should innovate and lead the way.
Is it going to make us worse?
No, it can only make us better, so what's the problem?
It has never been done like that in football, it is outside the comfort zone, it is that unseen cup of tea.
The players do not have clarity of purpose.
They are doing what someone else wants them to do, but does that correspond with what they individually want?
If the club felt like tackling this issue they would, but they can't because they don't have a plan to do it.
If a player felt like mentally improving they would but they don't have a plan to do it and without a plan, they don't know how to achieve it.
When you wake up it is hit and miss whether you have the motivation to do something but wit the clarity of purpose of a definite plan, you are clearly more likely to succeed.
Why is that different for a footballer? It isn't, football is just a job, an enjoyable one perhaps, but still just a job like any other.
Are the players internally and individually motivated to do the training assigned or to improve?
It will be different for each player and the manager can see that, which is why some players get selected over others.
With a definite plan, you take the decision making away, each day is then not hit and miss.
Create goals, give them life, write them down, repeat them every day and you are far more likely to be motivated enough to take the required steps to achieve them, instead of just procrastinating and talking about it.
The physical environment is a driver of habit.
In your living room, all your chairs point towards the TV so you unproductively watch a lot of TV.
Point them elsewhere and you would do something else.
Managers try to create happy environments because happy environments are more conducive to success, they are breeding grounds for good habits.
If you want to read a book, play guitar, whatever the habit, then put the book or guitar in the way.
If you see it you'll use it, if it is out of sight you won't.
Put them on the sofa, put them on the pillow, you get the idea.
Read the graphic did you? My thanks to the makers of it.
Chris Waddle saw a problem and decided to do something about it. He had a plan and implemented it. It is that simple.
So why are our one-footed players not making themselves tw-footed players?
Harry Kane scores with both feet, Heung-min Son scores with both feet, Erik Lamela only tried to use one foot.
Twenty minutes a day for a couple of months. How hard is that?
Twenty minutes a week with a sports psychologist, how hard is that?
There are no excuses for not taking 20 minutes a day yo work on a weakness and make you a better player.
Players with a winning mentality would do it because they do what it takes to improve.
Players playing to win a football game don't because they don't have a true winning mentality, they just think they do because they know no better.
They can't see the problem, therefore they can't do something about it, just like drinking that cup of tea.
If you don't know it exists, you can't pick it up.
To pick it up, you then have to want it.
If you don't want to drink it, you won't pick it up.
When you desire it and start to drink it, you must like it to want to do it again.
A study was conducted using three groups.
With the first, they told them that they just wanted to track how often they exercised.
That group set the standard, the benchmark for the others to measure them against.
The second group was asked to track their exercise and they were given a motivational speech/presentation about the benefits of a healthy heart and why exercise helps.
The third group were given the same motivational speech/presentation and a sentence they had to read out loud.
During the next week, I will take part in at least 20 minutes of vigorous exercise on [Day] at [Time of Day] at [Place].
What were the results?
From the control group, 38% exercised at least once a week.
From Group 2, 25% exercised at least once a week.
External motivation had no effect on them at all, indeed they exercised less than the unmotivated control group!
Group 3, those who stated what they were going to do, those who had a definite plan?
91% exercised at least once a week.
Clear evidence that the individual motivates themselves to do what they want to do.
You can increase your chances of success by 2 x or 3 x by having a specific plan.
They had clarity of purpose.
Do you see why I insist we must use sports psychologists are a compulsory part of training to understand what motivates a player so the manager can tap into it?
It is just so out of date, so yesteryear that we don't and I maintain we should innovate and lead the way.
Is it going to make us worse?
No, it can only make us better, so what's the problem?
It has never been done like that in football, it is outside the comfort zone, it is that unseen cup of tea.
The players do not have clarity of purpose.
They are doing what someone else wants them to do, but does that correspond with what they individually want?
If the club felt like tackling this issue they would, but they can't because they don't have a plan to do it.
If a player felt like mentally improving they would but they don't have a plan to do it and without a plan, they don't know how to achieve it.
When you wake up it is hit and miss whether you have the motivation to do something but wit the clarity of purpose of a definite plan, you are clearly more likely to succeed.
Why is that different for a footballer? It isn't, football is just a job, an enjoyable one perhaps, but still just a job like any other.
Are the players internally and individually motivated to do the training assigned or to improve?
It will be different for each player and the manager can see that, which is why some players get selected over others.
With a definite plan, you take the decision making away, each day is then not hit and miss.
Create goals, give them life, write them down, repeat them every day and you are far more likely to be motivated enough to take the required steps to achieve them, instead of just procrastinating and talking about it.
The physical environment is a driver of habit.
In your living room, all your chairs point towards the TV so you unproductively watch a lot of TV.
Point them elsewhere and you would do something else.
Managers try to create happy environments because happy environments are more conducive to success, they are breeding grounds for good habits.
If you want to read a book, play guitar, whatever the habit, then put the book or guitar in the way.
If you see it you'll use it, if it is out of sight you won't.
Put them on the sofa, put them on the pillow, you get the idea.
Read the graphic did you? My thanks to the makers of it.
Chris Waddle saw a problem and decided to do something about it. He had a plan and implemented it. It is that simple.
So why are our one-footed players not making themselves tw-footed players?
Harry Kane scores with both feet, Heung-min Son scores with both feet, Erik Lamela only tried to use one foot.
Twenty minutes a day for a couple of months. How hard is that?
Twenty minutes a week with a sports psychologist, how hard is that?
There are no excuses for not taking 20 minutes a day yo work on a weakness and make you a better player.
Players with a winning mentality would do it because they do what it takes to improve.
Players playing to win a football game don't because they don't have a true winning mentality, they just think they do because they know no better.
They can't see the problem, therefore they can't do something about it, just like drinking that cup of tea.
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