Character Drives The Process Which Drives The Result

Character drives The Process which drives The Result

Results > What you want to accomplish
The Process > The work you put in, over time, for the results you want
Character > Who you are as a person

Focusing on building character will help your athletes embrace the process more which will lead to better results.

Who you are as a person will tell how hard you are willing to work (the process) for the results that you want.  Build, grow, and developing character will help you work harder, better and smarter through the process of achieving the results that you want.

Of course every team wants to go undefeated and win their championship, but above that, every team should want to strive to maximize their ability.  Everyone will experience loss, and while nobody wants to lose, losing isn’t the worst thing in the world.  Worse than losing is wasted talent.

John Wooden once defined success as, “Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.”

Becoming the best coach, player or team that you can become is more important that just winning.   Becoming the best parent, the best teacher, or the best leader that you can become is more important than winning or test scores.  “Do your best” isn’t just some mantra we tell our kids before they go play their u9 soccer game; it should be our mantra for life.  Win or lose, if you prepared the best you can and did your best that should be satisfying enough.

Teams should work together to be the best that they can be as a whole.  We are all limited and imperfect, but together we can be whole, limitless and fully capable to accomplish anything before us.  To become the best team that you can be, everybody has to work hard, do the right things, and do them the right way.  That is what is called ‘The Process.’  The process is doing the right thing, the right way, over time.  The process drives the result.  How hard the team works and how well they work together is the process.  What the team and the players do every day is the process.  Practice, film, the weight room, conditioning, diet, the classroom, etc. is all a part of the process.

How well they do those things is driven by the character of the team, the coaches, and the players.  Your character is who you are, what you do, and how you do it.  It is who you are as a person.  Your character drives the process.  Your character drives how hard you are willing to work.  Building and improving character will improve your work ethic (the process) which will improve your results. 

If the goal of the team is to maximize its ability, the biggest way to do so is to build up the character of everybody in the organization, from the coach to the players to the managers.