Are You Incompetent?

What you say?

I am being mean, you say?

Not at all. In fact a willingness to declare your incompetence is the first step to getting better at something.

Here is the definition of incompetence: “The inability to do something”

What’s mean about that? It’s kind of a fact of life, that we all aren’t naturally good at something and actually have to work at it to get better.

Have you been watching any of the Olympic Games?

Do you think these amazing athletes popped out of their mothers wombs ready to ski, skate, jump and fly at a world class level?

No, rather they found their level of incompetence and then worked to overcome it.

Too many times in my own life I have reached a certain level of success in an endeavor, hit a roadblock, and given up.

“It’s too hard”

“I can’t do it”

“I’ll never be good enough”

Self – SHUT UP!

As coach Erin says, you need to Reset Your Mindset.

“Not now” doesn’t mean never.

Too often we give up, just before we were about to break through.

Determination and Perseverance are what separate achievers from mere dreamers.

The successful from the discouraged and disappointed.

And the Olympic Champion from all the rest.

Don’t get down on yourself for what you “can’t do”.

As one of my mentor’s Martin Rooney likes to say “The way to seeing you are making improvement is by finding the things you cannot do.”

And then going out and doing them anyway.

Make It Happen,

Coach Dean