CHAPTER 3 Focus for Excellence Flashcards
What are essential action components for learning and achieving excellence?
Focusing and refocusing
These components are crucial for individuals and teams to perform consistently close to their potential.
Who can benefit from improving their focus?
Athletes, students, coaches, teachers, parents, children, and performers in all work settings
Improving focus enhances performance across various contexts.
How does high-quality focusing affect performance?
It enhances learning, joy, and performance in various contexts
This includes practices, meetings, and daily interactions.
What does focus symbolize in high-performance contexts?
The sun that radiates energy, power, direction, and connection
Focus affects everything you do in every area of life.
What is the single most important goal in any performance?
To keep your focus centered on what connects you to your performance
This helps you perform your best.
What are the key factors that affect performance according to the focus model?
- Commitment
- Ongoing learning
- Mental readiness
- Distraction control
- Positive images
- Confidence
These factors are interconnected and influence performance quality.
What should you do if you lose focus during a performance?
Regain focus quickly and get back on track
Maintaining focus is crucial for performance success.
Fill in the blank: Quality performance depends on _______.
[your focus]
Quality performance is grounded in effective focus.
What is a key strategy for quality practice?
Stay focused, stay positive, and connect with the right things
This approach leads to better performance.
What can distractions negatively affect during critical moments?
Performance
A loss of focus can lead to failure in critical performance situations.
What did Beckie Scott achieve in her Olympic career?
First North American to win an Olympic gold medal in cross-country skiing
She also had significant success in World Cup races.
How did Beckie Scott improve her performance?
By fine-tuning her race focus and evaluating her performance post-race
This included creating a specific race focus plan.
What role does fun and joy play in high-level performance?
It frees performers to excel
Joy and passion contribute to maintaining a positive focus.
True or False: All high-level performers experience doubts and fears.
True
Even top performers face challenges in their confidence.
What separates high-level performers from others?
Their focus on fully developing themselves in one area of life
This commitment allows them to excel consistently.
Fill in the blank: Attaining the goal of personal excellence is a _______.
[choice]
It requires commitment and focus.
What can falling short of potential often result from?
Not focusing fully on being where you are or not focusing on positive things
This impacts performance across various life domains.
What did Beckie Scott have to deal with during her career?
Distractions including poor results, injuries, and personal challenges
Learning to cope with these distractions was essential for her success.
What are distractions a part of?
Life.
What is a key component of Beckie’s journey to excellence in cross-country skiing?
Planning, executing, and evaluating.
What process did Beckie follow to get the best out of herself?
A step-by-step, day-by-day process dedicated to improvement.
What did Beckie ask herself every day to reach her goals?
What am I going to do today to get closer to my goals? How am I going to do it?
What was crucial to Beckie’s success before the Salt Lake City 2002 Olympics?
Developing and implementing a detailed race plan.
What did Beckie gain from racing World Cup races prior to the Olympics?
Confidence and knowledge about the courses.
