130 Great Ideas to Make Your Team More Mentally Tough

Due to the limited time that you have with your players, you must choose the few areas that you are going to emphasize as your building blocks and work very hard to become really good at those things. This e-book will focus on beliefs and efforts to improve your mental toughness as well as that of your players. I list “Toughness” as number one among our building blocks because I feel that in the long run, you win with players and coaches who:

1) Are willing to step out of their comfort zones to do what is necessary to improve themselves for the good of the team.

2) Have enough self-discipline to consistently give great efforts day in and day out, no matter how things are going.

3) Are stable enough to fight through the inevitable adversity that comes during each game and during the course of the long basketball season.

4) Understand that the difference between successful and unsuccessful individuals is often just the focus to do the little things that unsuccessful people are not willing to do.

5) Can deliver when the competitive pressure of a game is at its hottest.