Top Ten Solid Gold Tips for Success in High Performance Sport.

If you read one post today – read this one….the Top Ten Solid Gold Tips for Success in High Performance Sport…or everything you ever wanted to know about creating and sustaining success in high performance sport in 500 words or less.

1. Nothing guarantees success – Our job is to increase the likelihood of success;
2. Success is a moving target: Last year’s thinking, last year’s programs, last year’s ideas = last year’s results divided by two;
3. Training must be more challenging and more demanding than the competition you are trying to win:
4. The faster you want to go, the more relaxed you have to be:
5. Attitude is everything: Talent alone does not win anything. Neither does just hard work. It’s the consistent application
6. Your biggest strength is the pathway to your biggest weakness:
7. Luck is under-rated in high performance sport: Sometimes you can plan, schedule, structure, systemise and try to control every possible aspect of your high performance program
8. Creativity is king: in a world where anyone get find out anything, anytime, anywhere…your ability to create, innovate and think faster and more effectively than your opposition is the key to success;
9. Culture grows from inside to out:
10. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is:

These are my top ten tips – what are yours?

Wayne Goldsmith