3 Ways Gratitude can change your Basketball Game and your life

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” Cicero

3 Ways Gratitude Can Change your Game

1. Gratitude helps you eliminate comparison. Envy and jealousy rob your future. When you engage in comparison you are eliminating gratitude and stepping into dangerous territory. Gratitude guards against ruining your future through comparison.

2. Gratitude protects you from bitterness. Basketball can elicit bitterness towards teammates, family members and especially coaches. Nothing can ruin your love for the game more than bitterness. No matter how difficult your circumstances, bitterness is not a solution nor are actions taken when motivated from a bitter heart. Bitterness is as dangerous as poison and will destroy you and others. Making decisions when you are bitter will reap a harvest of pain for your future.

3. Gratitude helps you catch fire. With gratitude, you will make strong decisions and momentum will turn in your favor. As momentum builds, you will be in the perfect spot to become "on fire."

Action Steps:
Before the game, write down before the game three things you love about playing basketball. Keep your mind on what you are thankful for. After the game, write down three things you are thankful for. We guarantee of all the skill work and time you put into basketball, this will be your most important discipline for helping you play your very best.

3 Ways Gratitude Can Change Your Life

1. Gratitude will strengthen your body. Keeping a thankful journal not only increases your happiness level and ability to solve problems, it helps strengthen your immune system and overall physical health.

2. Gratitude will strengthen your skills. When you get frustrated, you quit learning. By being thankful during the difficulties of acquiring a new skill, your body and brain will get the new skill faster. Gratitude keeps you teachable and being teachable changes your future.

3. Gratitude will strengthen your team or family. Pick a relationship that is not going well. Take a piece of paper and write down all the things you are thankful for about that person. Start saying what you are thankful for directly to that person. Start speaking what you like about that person to others. Watch for the magic to happen

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