Manifesting Your Goals in Softball

Manifesting Your Goals. What the heck does that even mean? Is that some kind of new age music group? Read on to find out.

Most of us, whether player, coach, parent or fan want to be successful. We have all heard it from parents, teachers, bosses, gurus for the longest time. But what does it mean to be successful?

Here is a long worded definition that really hits it on the head.
Progressive realization of a worthy goal.


To become a Successful Softball player you must have goals. To become successful as a person in life you must have a worthy goal.

What are worthy goals for Softball?

Well, that is really up to you. You need to decide what it is that you consider to be worthy. For some it would be an ultimate goal of playing softball in the Olympics. With the sport being removed from the games that might be a lofty goal, but a worthy one all the same.


Perhaps your goal is to play college softball. Perhaps to play in the Womens College World Series. Perhaps to become a coach of a college softball program. Perhaps even a professional softball career.

Those are all worthy goals to most players. Maybe your goals in life are little different. Maybe you want to play for your high school team and become a letter winner. Maybe your goal is to help your competitive team win Nationals. Maybe you want to be a starter on your competitive and high school softball teams. Those too are all very worthy goals for softball players.

How do you attain these goals?

Start by picking an Ultimate Goal - say the Olympic dream. Then work backwards in time until you get to today.

Then ask yourself what do I need to do to get there. You will probably need to play very well on a college team. Perhaps maybe a very good Gold level comp team might get you noticed.

I found this cool way of attaining your goals by just watching movies every day.

You will have to go to Olympic tryouts and make the team.
Do this by practicing and playing and leaving everything you have on the field. Learn as much as you can about the game, your positions.

Play and perform well enough to be noticed by college coaches.
Again, practice and learn. You must keep your academics up also. Good grades get you good spots. One of my college professors knowing I was a hunter told me "To get the Big Bucks, you have to do your homework". That made sense - big bucks meant a big deer and big money. You have to do your homework in life to get the things you want. To learn the game of fastpitch softball you have to do your homework.

Ok, so keep working backwards until you get to today.
Today, at home I need to practice my hitting and fielding. I had a few errors on 3rd or I dropped a ball in the outfield. I need to learn how to be better at those things.


Then tomorrow at team practice I need to listen well and use the team time wisely. No messing around. Learn from the coaches and ask questions.

So think of some goals.

Maybe just work on goals for this season until you get the hang of goals and making them work. Then put some longer term goals on paper and work towards them in the same manner.

Think about your goals every day. Think of the joy that goal will bring you. If a negative thought creeps in, stop and then think again of your goal and how much fun it is to play softball.

If you keep your goals in mind and think about them every day, they will happen.
Make today's goal happen and enjoy the good feeling. Then make tomorrow's goal happen, and then this week's goal, this month's goal. The complete season goal.

Just remember to look at your goal every day and think about it.

This is a link to a long video but very good stuff about goals.