Hoops & Huslte E2 Goal Setting

Hoops & Hustle - Goal Setting: Everywhere you go in life and whatever you do you should set goals. Goal setting is huge. Everyone should have long-term and short-term goals to strive and work towards. Coach Emmett Speaks on Goal Setting as a coach. 

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Hello everyone and welcome to my podcast, Hoops and Hustle, a coaching podcast. I'm Coach Emmett. In this episode, I will be going over and providing tips on goal setting, both as a coach and a player. Also, I will talk about how to keep student athletes on the right track for success. Setting goals is crucial for personal, academic achievement, Athletic Achievements and Professional Growth. In life, I believe we all have to be motivated and accountable in some ways. We all need to strive for something. Without it, what's the point? What are we doing? What's the point of doing whatever we do? Especially as an athlete and a coach, you have to be driven. You Coaches need to motivate and drive athletes to their achievements, both team and personal individual goals. Goals. What are goals? Goals are described as a desirable outcome that a person or group plans to achieve and is often time bound. There are two types of goals, short term goals and long term goals. A short term goal is set to be in the near future. Days, weeks, even a month or two. While long term goals are set for the more distant foreseeable future. Months, a year, years. Short term goals are like stepping stones getting to that larger ambition, that larger goal. It provides that immediate feedback and motivation. As where the long term goals provide that direction, that vision. Now, as coaches and athletes, we want to make sure that we set SMART goals, not VAGUE goals. The SMART goal criteria is specific, measurable, accountable, relevant, and time bound. Here is an example of a vague goal. I want to become a better basketball player. Here is an example of a smart goal. I want to improve my made free throw percentage from 25 percent to 35%. SMART is an acronym that stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely. SMART goals can help athletes focus on drills and activities to achieve their goals. Here are some examples of how each letter, SMART, applies to basketball goals. S. Specific. A specific goal is a clear and well defined goal. For example, I want to increase my three point percentage by 15 percent this season. It is a specific goal stating that you want to do something and you want to achieve it by this amount. M. Measurable. A goal should be measurable so that progress can be tracked. For example, I want to make 52 pointers this season. That is a measurable goal for a player at that caliber that they are able to do it. And that brings us to our next letter. A. Achievable. A goal should be achievable and realistic. For example, I want to increase my free throw percentage from 25 percent to 35 percent is an achievable goal. R, realistic. A goal should be realistic and tailored to the athlete's skill level. Now. Going back to achievable where it's from 25 to 35%, you need to be realistic in setting this goal. So making a goal like I want to achieve 25 percent to 100 percent is not realistic. T timely. A goal should have a time frame of some sort, whether it's a week, a season, within a certain time span that you feel comfortable with. Normally when we talk about shooting percentages, it's throughout the season. Here are some strategies to help you set and achieve your goals. Smart goals. Remember, specific, measurable, accountable, relevant, time bound. Breaking it all down. Divide larger goals into smaller goals. Manageable tasks. This makes them less overwhelming, less chance of anxiety, and easier to tackle. Write it down. Document your goals. Write them down. Reinforce your commitments. It allows you to track your progress. Visualizing success. Create a vision. Write it down. Draw it out. Have something visual. Or use imagery to keep your goals in front of your mind. Visualization can enhance motivation and clarity. Prioritize. Prioritizing, focusing on what matters most. Rank your goals by importance to avoid spreading yourself thin. Set accountability measures. Share your goals with someone who can support you. Consider regular check ins or updates to stay on track. Be flexible. Life changes and sometimes shit gets in the way. Some goals need to be adjusted. But open to revising your goals as needed. Celebrate milestones. Acknowledge and reward yourself for achieving smaller milestones. This helps maintain motivation. Reflection. Reflect regularly. Set aside time to review your progress. Reflect on what's working and what's not, and adjust your approach accordingly. Stay positive. Maintain a positive mindset. Focus on progress rather than perfection and view setbacks as a learning opportunity. Establish routine, create a daily or weekly routine that incorporates actions towards your goals. Consistency is key. Use technology. Leverage apps or tools for tracking progress, reminders, and organization. This can streamline your goal setting process. Limit distractions. Identify and minimize distractions that hinder your progress. Stay inspired. Read books, listen to podcasts or engage with content that motivates you. Surround yourself with inspiration. Surrounding yourself with inspiration can keep you enthused in your enthusiasm at a high. By applying these strategies, you can create a structured approach to goal setting that enhances your chances of success. As teams, we set goals. As coaches, we set goals. As players, we set goals. Now, for coaches, that's why having a good assistant coach that keeps you on task and keeps you, and holds you to your goals and standards is very important. As coaches to players, we need to keep them accountable for our team goals and their individual goals. The mental side of it and the psychological side of it is motivation and accountability. Hold your players accountable. Hold your players accountable. Sometimes you gotta give them a little wake up call or a kick in the ass to get it into their heads. At the beginning of this season, for any season, for any of my teams, I like to set goals for myself, my team, and individual players. When we get together as a team, we set goals, how should we pan out against these teams? What do we want to do? What do we want to accomplish. We set short term and long term goals. It could be week to week, or for the season. So now I want to talk about motivation and accountability. They go hand in hand, but as coaches, sometimes, especially if you're a new coach, motivation can be a positive or negative thing. Now when we're motivating and we want to give that player A kick in the ass, so to speak, or to wake them up. We got to do it in an appropriate manner. And I'll give an example of a wake up call, a appropriate manner in a minute. But motivation is goals provided by direction and purpose, which can be like a boost. When individuals set specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time bound SMART goals, they can create a clear roadmap that fosters a sense of progress. This clarity can enhance commitment and drive. Accountability is sharing goals with others. Or tracking the progress. Increasing accountability. Social support can motivate individuals to stay on course. That's where it comes in as coaches. That when we give motivational speeches and whatnot, it is important to be positive and motivating, then degrading and basically making the player feel like shit. There's ways of doing it where you can curse and you can get that drive and passion flowing. So, my AAU team, the Bulldogs, how I get them fired up sometimes is, I hit them with the Tara Vanderveer quote. She says, do you want to be the dogs, or the hydrant? Basically saying, do you want to dominate, or do you want to get pissed on? And nobody wants to get pissed on. I don't give a shit if we're up by 20 or down by 60. I want a coach to come into that gym without looking at the scoreboard and say, I love the way the girls played. They never gave up. They hustled. They grinded. They did everything right. And they kept their heads held up high winning or losing. I want these girls to be motivated by themselves and by their teammates. I want them to stay up. No matter if one's having a bad game, another one's going to pick you up. There's motivation everywhere you go. Sometimes it's hard. You forget what the end goal is. You forget what your task is and that's when you have to wake them up and kind of give them a little ass kicking, in a sense, with words. I coach high school varsity girls at AU and also collegiate basketball. So Cursing in a way can, bring their energy level up. And some of our players have heard my everything fucking matter speech. Everything fucking matters in life. And I basically hit them with the everything fucking matters. Everything fucking matters in life. Your grades matter. Your life matters. Everything fucking matters. That 10 percent on your quiz fucking matters. The way that you present yourself and the way that you represent yourself fucking matters. How are you going to go out and get a job if you don't represent or present yourself right? It fucking matters. Now. I apply this to basketball. Every possession fucking matters. Your mannerisms on the court fucking matters. Your hustle fucking matters. Everything fucking matters in the game of basketball. So remember, make your SMART goals. Break down goals. Set priorities. Write them down. Create an action plan. Stay flexible. Visualize success. Set deadlines. Monitor progress. Seek support. Learn from setbacks. Stay committed. Coaches. Hold your teams accountable and make goals. Goals that are reachable and can be a challenge. Just remember, everything fucking matters. On the next episode of Hoops and Hustle, I will be talking about mentors and check ins. I will talk about my mentor and how important it is for coaches to have mentors and coaches to mentor other coaches. I will also talk about on how the mentor check ins are very helpful.