I remember reading this book, “The Little Engine That Could”, when I was a kid. It is a motivational story of how a train made it up a big hill even when everyone else said that it was impossible. It’s been 20 years since I read the story, but I flipped through a copy last week when I was at the bookstore. I quickly realized that all of the same qualities that this little train engine needed in order to make it up the big hill are the exact same things you need in order to succeed as a female hockey player.
For every girls hockey player that could be great, there are hundreds more who wouldn’t or couldn’t.
Achieving your full potential on and off the ice starts with you believing that you can be great.
In order to be a great female hockey player, a great student and a great role model, you have to believe that you can achieve whatever you set your mind to. The more you believe in yourself, the more you will achieve.
The next step is to believe that you are the best YOU in the world.
Where girls hockey players usually get into trouble is when they start trying to be something that they aren’t. Don’t waste your time worrying about what everyone else is thinking, saying and doing. Commit to being the best possible version of YOU every single day.
It is your belief in your ability to achieve great things that is going to drive your passion for the game and push you to get better on a daily basis.
If you think you CAN’T, you definitely won’t.
If you think you CAN, you just might become great.
Once you believe it, you can go achieve it.
I can’t tell you exactly what you need to do in order to be your best. You have to figure out where you need to go and then do everything in your power to get there.
What do you need to do tomorrow to become the best version of YOU possible?
Practice harder? Help a teammate? Focus more in class? Take a day off?
You know what you need to do - now go out and do it!
Work Hard. Dream BIG.
~ Coach Kim
I need to focus more and do the things I know are more than what is average. I have to do the little things that will make me better than what I would normally do. I have to try harder. When I try harder, I do better. I tried harder at practice today and I made some good saves. We had a snowstorm, but we stil had most of our team. We practiced for over two hours because everyone else after us canceled. I’m lucky the coach forgot his skates or we’d probably still be there.
I think tomorrow is a snow-day!
See ya!
Amy