Last week, we talked about confidence. The more confidence you have in yourself the better equipped you will be to deal with the many different things you have going on in your life.
Your academic success gives you confidence. Your athletic success gives you even more. Your social life being under control and living a healthy lifestyle adds even more to your confidence.
All of these areas feed upon each other and the balance you have in your life helps you to be successful in all of these areas.
What do you do when the pressure is on? How do you maintain your composure? In chapter 4 of Jeff Janssen’s The Team Captain’s Leadership Manual , you get a great dose of information on how to deal with pressure, but, even more importantly, you get some pointers on how to recognized pressure situations and how they can potentially impact your teammates.
The traffic light analogy is a simple method of assessing where you and your teammates are in regards to managing collective emotions. Think Green, Yellow and Red lights. Read up on this and it will really help you in your ability to lead by example and to help your teammates when they are looking to you for guidance. How do you handle a red light or yellow light and get it back to a green light? Look at some of the refocusing strategies presented on page 56-59.
Your ability to lead in pressure situations will teach life lessons that will by the example you set be contagious with your teammates!
I am going to leave you with one of my favorite poems. I really think you can apply it to your everyday life and your time shared with your teammates.
Just like confidence is contagious – so is composure.
Take a second to read Rudyard Kipling’s If.
Your academic success gives you confidence. Your athletic success gives you even more. Your social life being under control and living a healthy lifestyle adds even more to your confidence.
All of these areas feed upon each other and the balance you have in your life helps you to be successful in all of these areas.
What do you do when the pressure is on? How do you maintain your composure? In chapter 4 of Jeff Janssen’s The Team Captain’s Leadership Manual , you get a great dose of information on how to deal with pressure, but, even more importantly, you get some pointers on how to recognized pressure situations and how they can potentially impact your teammates.
The traffic light analogy is a simple method of assessing where you and your teammates are in regards to managing collective emotions. Think Green, Yellow and Red lights. Read up on this and it will really help you in your ability to lead by example and to help your teammates when they are looking to you for guidance. How do you handle a red light or yellow light and get it back to a green light? Look at some of the refocusing strategies presented on page 56-59.
Your ability to lead in pressure situations will teach life lessons that will by the example you set be contagious with your teammates!
I am going to leave you with one of my favorite poems. I really think you can apply it to your everyday life and your time shared with your teammates.
Just like confidence is contagious – so is composure.
Take a second to read Rudyard Kipling’s If.
If
BY RUDYARD KIPLING
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
Source: A Choice of Kipling's Verse (1943)
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
Source: A Choice of Kipling's Verse (1943)
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