Bouncing back efter a setback.
One of the major things that will determine just how far you go in your football career will be how you bounce back from setbacks. Setbacks are inevitable but bouncing back in a positive and helpful manner is not. Once you experience a setback, it is not the setback that is the most important thing. How you react to it is. Think about how you currently react when something doesn’t go your way and the odds are against you? Is the answer you come up with going to help you take responsibility, push on and perform better or is it going to leave you feeling doubt and frustration, thinking about what might have been? Take giving the ball away as an example. When that happens on the park, what do you do? Do you ask yourself in your head “why did I just do that?” and reply with “because you are shit?”. An unhelpful reaction like that is just going to affect the way that you feel and perform from that point on in the game. Instead how about telling yourself “Let’s g...
