Low Standards Attract Low Achievers

I’m sick and tired of hearing complaints without courage, and you should be too.

This week, I’ll share the one place you need to go and the four steps to get there.

My friend is a long distance trail runner and when he told me about the “pain cave” and it all clicked. In any extreme sport, athletes hit a place where they want to quit, stop or give into the pain. The fear of avoding the dark entrance to the pain cave is what keeps these athletes from achieving their breakthrough.

Everything you want is on the other side of hard.

What these athletes have figured out, is to fall in love with the pain cave, because once they enter it, their body begins releasing chemicals that make them feel amazing and provides an energy boost that sustains them for the rest of the race.

And as they continually enter the pain cave, they begin to look forward to that hard moment, instead of avoiding it. They can’t wait for it to hit, because they know after the pain hits, it will provide them with the breakthrough to sustain them for the entire race.

Coach, stop avoiding the pain cave and sprint right in, it will provide you the boost, the freedom, the breakthrough that will sustain you for your whole season.

Not sure where to start? Establish standards with these fours steps.

1. Define it

2. Hold the line

3. Celebrate living it out

4. Share ownership to create an identity

Better Standards = Better Team. You can check out the free Webinar we did here.

Any challenge, obstacle, any pain point that you’re experiencing in your program as a leader, as a coach, whether it be on the court, off the court with your players, with your staff, with your parents. They can all be addressed through improving your standards.

My good friend Mike Neighbours has said many times, “I can coach you or I can motivate you, but I can't do both.”

You pick, if you have not yet established a standard around things that upset you, things that frustrate you, whether it be a lack of communication, whether it be a lack of energy, whether it be parents and how they act in the stands or parents and how they speak. If you haven't established standards around any of these things, the etiquette of your coaches, how your players come into the gym, any frustration you feel can be traced back to a lack of establishing a standard.

Here are four easy steps, if you want help or want four weeks of training on how to do this, just join our Standards Cohort and I’ll train you on how to build your own standards and get to the other side of the PAIN CAVE!

I’m Tyler and I’m here to help.