January 12, 2022 | Tagged Coaching
Do you have drive and does your drive help you succeed on and off the basketball court?
Improve your drive on and off the court and navigate drive better.
Drive on the basketball court means more than your attack of the basket. It also means your internal force propelling you to succeed regardless of the obstacles.
Drive means to force forward, pursue, or “rush against.” Drive can be channeled towards goals, or it can be towards people; defined as propelling someone forward. Drive is important for basketball both technically: the drive to score, as well as motivationally: to achieve goals and to motivate teammates.
A driver is someone who uses force or a push to get others to achieve. If you are identified as a driver in your home, team, or business, take time to evaluate if this drive is producing the results you want. Does your drive make those around you more motivated or less motivated?
Good leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.-Jack Welch
Four Ways to Navigate Drive Wisely
1. The best drive is internal. When coaches or parents drive you to work hard, there can emerge an unconscious resistance. Do you find yourself quitting and losing your own internal drive, in defiance of outside pressure? Find ways to stoke your own internal fire to do what you are called to do and be who you are designed to be.
2. Find ways to communicate what you need. You may have to find the courage to request that a family member or coach find a different way to motivate you because their intense drive interferes with your own motivation.
3. Meaning and purpose are key. Drive is a secondary action to the primary desire to get somewhere. Where do you want to go? If you don’t know where you want to go, you will struggle with drive.
4. Drive with caution. Driving a car requires value judgment and discernment. The internal drive also requires you to be astute at navigating ethics and purpose. Great leaders don’t plow people over in their drive for success. Great leaders see the whole road and use their drive to make everyone know better. Your team should be better because you are on it. Your family should be better because you are in it. Use your drive to enhance not endanger those around you.
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