KNOW YOUR WORTH

If you’ve been using the FREE2COMPETE daily journal activities, you’ve probably got this statement memorized:

My value comes from who I am, not from what I do.

In a recent 1-on-1 session with an athlete our conversation turned to that statement. They were struggling to understand why believing this statement would help them as an athlete.

I completely understand why they were struggling with this statement. Often times we get lost in the results because that is what the world focuses on. What do I mean by lost? We lose who we are in when we aren’t performing at the level that we want. And when we do perform at the level that we want, we think people only like us because of what “we do” and not who “we are”.

As we processed through their struggle together, I shared with them the following video from “What Drives Winning.” The video is of Brett Ledbetter (creator of “What Drives Winning” interviewing Aliyah Boston (WNBA player for the Indiana Fever). The entire video is a little over 9 minutes long, but we started at the 5:21 mark and you can do the same thing for today’s journal activity. At this point in the video Brett shows Aliyah a clip of an interview with James Carden, an actor and comedian.

Grab your journal and watch this video starting at the 5:21 mark. Write down anything that is said during the video that stands out to you or you connect with. Then on your journal activity for the week.

After we watched this video together and talked about what stood out to them, I asked the athlete I was working with “How do you see that phrase helping you as an athlete now?” Let’s just say they ended up answering their own question and it was better than anything I could have told them.

JOURNAL ACTIVITY

Identify a time when you’ve been “lost” in your sport? Meaning you lost who you are in the midst of what you were doing.

How would the phrase “MY VALUE COMES FROM WHO I AM, NOT FROM WHAT I DO” help you as an athlete?