“Remember, Once you set a goal, it’s all about how hard you’re willing to work, how much you’re willing to sacrifice & how badly you truly want it”, JJ Watt

Setting goals has always been seen as one of the most important pieces attributing to an athlete’s success.

You can’t achieve success in your football mental game if you are not measuring the achievement of your goals.

If you want to perform at your top level of potential, you need to start tracking your progress. By tracking your progress, you will accelerate your success faster than if you did not track it.

Tracking progress helps to keep you “aware” of where you are against your goals at any given point in the process. Tracking your progress is also important because it lets you know what works and what doesn’t in terms of reaching your previously set goals.

If you’re on track, you probably won’t have to make many changes to your routine, except to increase your exercises in difficulty. If you’re not making any progress, it may be time to re-evaluate your program, and see where you can make changes to get you back on track.

Without a regular reminder of how you’re doing, you can’t know whether the actions you’re taking are working to move you closer to your end point and better football confidence overall.

It’s tough to stay motivated when you don’t know if the things you’re doing are moving you forward or setting you back.

Unfortunately, just going by memory or overall feel isn’t enough.

Keeping mental track can lead to missing small gains you’re making or areas where you could easily improve. You might be spinning your wheels and never even know if you’re not tracking what’s happening.

If you are a quarterback and want to improve your throwing knowing where to start and what to track your progress on is important. If you don’t know what to track you probably won’t keep that up for long. For example there are several steps in throwing the ball. Pick the first few methods to focus on, track your progress and continue to improve each method with accuracy.

To keep on track with your new habit you need to choose something achievable so you’ll always feel that if you make the effort you can do it. Write down every little milestone you want to achieve and celebrate your accomplishments.

Staying true to yourself and your goals should not be drudgery.

You must view your accountability as a way to improve your football mental toughness and your overall mental game.

Soliciting advice and criticism from others creates accountability.

For this to work, you will need to convince the mentor, friend, colleague or significant other whom you’re appealing to that you want to know what he or she really thinks.

The evaluator needs to know that they won’t suffer any blowback if they is totally honest.
Feedback is key to overcoming blind spots and achieving better results in the football mental game.

Tracking your progress toward your goals sounds like a great idea on the surface, but it can be detrimental to your productivity, if you don’t do it right.

When you view your actions as signs that you’re committed to your goal, and constantly question why you want to reach your goal in the first place, research on psychology for football has shown that you’ll be a lot more successful in reaching it.

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