Why You Aren't Seeing Results Right Away (Podcast Episode 61)

What's up guys? Just want to apologize. The video in the podcast is a little bit blurry, a little bit out of focus. It looked good when I was recording it, but I didn't catch it until I started editing it. So again, want to apologize for that. Good news is the audio is still perfectly fine. That's the most important part. So just so you guys know, I know, I see it, I watch it. The camera I use a little bit finicky sometimes. So when I was recording it, it looked good, but then I actually got it on my computer and it was of course not, not good. So again, want to apologize, but I hope you guys enjoy this episode. Welcome to the Vision Battle Training podcast. Appreciate you guys for tuning in. Shout out to everybody right now who's listening on Apple Podcast or Spotify or SoundCloud or Pandora or wherever else's podcast is. If you're tuned in, listening. I appreciate you guys. Everybody who's on YouTube right now, make sure you drop a like and subscribe. 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Part of this episode today, honestly is about kind of like when I think about why I started this whole entire thing about almost two years ago at this point, a lot of it was just to give back what I learned. And I had understanding that like what I had learned over my playing career, over my kind of short coaching career could help out a lot of players, especially at an earlier age than me or at a, I should say at just, you know, guys who are, who are really at all different levels. So maybe you're just starting out and I felt like there's a lot of information that will be really helpful there, but then there's guys who are a little bit farther along and at the same time like I wanted to put out stuff that was going to help them too. So it's been kind of a balance of doing that. That's my whole goal with all of this. So again, the more people that listen, the more obviously that, that I can kind of make that happen. So I appreciate you guys. Leave reviews and of course, like I said on YouTube, Drop a, like subscribe. And then if you guys want to follow me on Instagram @visiondiven basketball, posting drills, posing drills, a lot more as summer starts to, you know, really take off here and, and you know, I'm training more in the gym, more days, more hours. Definitely be putting more stuff up there. So make sure you guys head over to Instagram at Vision Dream Bassel, give me a follow as well. So today I want to talk about a topic that I know, like I've gotten some DMS about it and this is just something that you're. No matter if it's basketball for me, whether it's in like the online space or even in my own like in person training or whatever, it's just the concept of like putting work in, putting effort in and then not seeing the results right away. Or I guess you could say, you know, you put in a lot of work and you feel like you should be making progress at this pace. Right? I'm putting in this much work. So actually making progress at this much pace and yet some, sometimes it feels like you're taking steps backwards. Right? For example, let's say you have a great game, you know, you're working out every day, you, you're, you know, you're, you're training, you're getting better and you know, you see yourself improving and then you have some big game and, or you have a big tournament, let's say on the weekend you go out and you just don't play well at all. Okay. And it feels like, man, the progress, like am I just wasting my time? Am I doing this? I think the first thing I want to give you guys four points to think about with this. My goal for this is that it's going to help you guys to put everything in perspective, to give you guys a better long term view and, and to keep you guys motivated in looking at the right things and focus on the right things in the right areas as well. And that's my goal with this episode today. The first Thing you guys have to understand about progress, right? That's what we're talking about here. It's progress. The training that you do, the work that you put in your goal is to see progress. But the first thing to understand is that progress is not going to be linear. Meaning that progress is not just going to be a straight line up like it's a graph. It's going to be like if you gave a two year old a crayon and then a blank piece of paper and, and told them to draw you a map, okay? That's how progress is going to look sometimes. Okay? It's going to get you there, but you're going to go up, down, backwards, forwards, all different directions, right? It's not necessarily going to be just straight up in a line like that, okay? It's going to be up and then it's going to be down and then it's going to be like backwards for a minute. Then it's going to be back up and then down and then back up, but you're going to trend that direction. So the first thing to understand is that it's not going to be perfect, right? There's nothing about the game of basketball that's perfect at all that goes for in actual games. You guys know, you guys can game plan as much as you want to. At some point something's going to go wrong, somebody's going to make a mistake. You know, you don't give up zero points during a game, right? You, every team is going to. Well, I mean, I shouldn't say that. Say most games you're not, you're not, you're not giving up zero points. So at some point your team's going to mess up, you're going to mess up, you're going to get scored on, you're going to miss a shot. So the game itself is not perfect, but the process of getting better isn't perfect either. And so it, you know, a lot of people expect it to be a straight line path. Well, if I put in more work then every day I'm going to get a little bit better. Every tournament I'm going to play a little better. Every game I'm going to play a little bit better. But that's just not how it works. It's not going to be a straight line, it's going to be up and down. Some games are going to be worse than others. But at the end of the day when you stay committed to it, that, that line trends upward, okay? It trends up. It's not going to get you there step by step, but you're going to move that direction. Okay? The thing you have to understand, guys, is that when we talk about that, the reason that the line is like that is because there's going to be setbacks, failures, all that sort of stuff. Like I said, you're going to put in work, you're going to go to a tournament and you're going to. You're going to play poorly at the tournament. You're going to have a game that's not good. You're going to feel like, I've been putting in great work, I've been, you know, doing what I'm supposed to be doing off the court in the weight room, or I've been eating well, I've been sleeping well, doing everything right, and then I go out and I play poorly somewhere. And you have to understand that. And the mindset shift that you have to have is that setbacks, failures are actually a good thing when you use them the right way. Okay? The first thing is to keep in perspective that you're going to have poor games, you're going to have poor performances, and that's not necessarily an indictment on the work that you're doing. Sometimes it just happens, right? But you can even look at, like, trends, okay? A lot of times you putting yourself in a position to fail is already putting you ahead of probably 90% of the people who don't want to do that. Right? There's a lot of players out there who are very, very comfortable going out of the park where they know they're better than everybody and playing down there. But as soon as they have an opportunity to go play against somebody who's a little bit better than them, they shy away from it. So if you're already in a position where you are able to fail, you're able to have setbacks. If you're, if you're at that level already where you. That means you're playing as players who are probably, at least on your level and probably better than you. You're already putting yourself in a position to long term be successful. Okay? So already you are in a very, very good spot. If you're even experiencing setbacks and failures, that's, that's actually. That should let you know that you're actually moving the right direction. If you were never. If you're never failing, if you're always. If your line looks like this, right, where it's just straight up, a straight trend in terms of progress, then you probably aren't actually challenging yourself enough. Okay? So start to view setbacks and failures as a good thing that lets you know that, okay, this is going to be something that's going to actually push me forward and push me to get better. So you actually need to start embracing those difficult times, those bad games, those games where somebody just straight up beats you, okay? And don't shy away from it. Understand that you can use it to get better. It's going to expose to you the areas that you've got to improve upon. And as opposed to players who never fail. Well, that's the problem. You talk about players who like, were the number one ranked sixth grader in the country. How many of those players end up being the number one ranked 12th grader? Almost none of them. In fact, probably none of them. Right? Because first of all, when you're in sixth grade, there's just so many things. You're 12 years old, there's some kids are already look like grown men and some look like they're seven years old. Okay, Everyone kind of develops at a different rate. But also when you're the best at that age, a lot of times you can get away with doing things on the court that you're not able to get away with when everybody catches up to you. So what got you by, what made you the best as a 12 year old is not going to work for you when you're 15, 16, 17 years old. So the players, a lot of times who weren't the best early on, right, who, who struggled early on, who were smaller than everybody when they were younger, they eventually catch up. And when they do, they've already had to overcome a major size deficit, maybe an athleticism deficit. So when they all of a sudden catch up, they have those prerequisite abilities because they've had to struggle so long, kind of fight for everything that they had that they're able to surpass a lot of those players. Okay, so the, but, but as a, as a 12, 13 year old, that kid was probably getting pushed around the court, probably was having some games where he didn't score. He was just having a real rough time. But you stick with it, you keep going and eventually when you catch up, you having to go through those setbacks, those failures actually what makes you a great player. So embrace failures, embrace setbacks, because that means that you're actually putting yourself in a position to get better, to be exposed to that sort of thing. So that's, that's ultimately your goal is press into that, look for situations where you might lose. Okay, that's not a bad thing at all it's actually a good thing when you approach it the right way. Okay. The third thing to understand is that you have to always keep on planting seeds, okay? Like I said, guys, you're not going to see the progress right away. Always. Right. There's going to be sometimes where you're going to put in some work and you're not going to see it pay off for you right away. And you have to understand that that's just how it is, how basketball is, how life is, how everything is. But it's all about trying to take a step forward every single day and understanding that you may not reap the rewards of the work you put in immediately off the bat. You're not going to, you have to take short term action, but at the same time have a long term view of things, okay? Because if you only have a short term view of things, okay, where am I at right now? How did I play today? How did I play yesterday? Well, you're going to be so up and down because one day you might play great and the next day you might play terrible and then you're going to start to second guess yourself. Oh, is, am I not putting enough work? Am I putting in the wrong kind of work? All this sort of thing. But if you have that focus on the long term, okay, I know if I put, if I do this, then long term I'm going to be able to do this right? My goal is to play college basketball, so I need to get better at this. And every day I'm focused on getting better at these couple things, okay? Every day I'm focused on getting better at this. And even if one day I might not do it that well, I understand that I'm putting in the work so that in, you know, three months, four months, five months, a year from now, I'm at this level now, okay? And I've improved this much on this skill. Again, you go in that with the understanding that it's not always going to be straight up, it's going to be up, down, backwards, up, down. And like eventually you're going to get to that point though. But it's about planting those seeds every single day, allowing them to grow. So that's what you have to understand is that you have to commit to every single day moving towards that goal, okay? Having that long term focus, but then also taking that short term action. So you're going to the gym, you're getting your workouts in, you're getting your pickup in, you're watching film, you're reading, you're learning more about the game, you're just becoming a better player in general. That's going to push you towards those long term goals as well, okay? And as you do that, that's how you're going to make progress towards the ultimate goal that you want. So the third thing to understand is that you have to have faith in what you're doing. So can you trust that even when you don't see the payoff right away, it's going to come? Can you trust that the work that you're putting in is going to pay off for you even if you don't see it a day later or a week later or even a month later? Okay. You're planting those seeds every single day. Okay? You're putting it out every single day. And eventually you're going to see that payoff come for you. But you have to have faith that it's going to come, it's going to happen at some point. And the thing that I've talked about before is there's no such thing as wasted work. Okay? Even if you put in a ton of work and you don't reach your ultimate goal, your long term goal, maybe you don't reach it. There's so much that you learned from doing that that it always is going to pay off for you. I always talk about, you know, when I was, after I graduated, ended up taking a year off and was planning on playing college basketball the year after that. So I was training the whole year, got way better that year and had more opportunities at the end of the year than I did when I was in high school and ended up not playing still for kind of a variety of reasons. But there was a couple of schools where I could have gone to and probably could have played, but ended up not doing it. So a lot of people might look at it and be like, well, you know, you put in all this work from the time you were 12, 13 years old. You put in all this work to get your goal and you didn't get to it. So that would mean that you failed. And you can look at it that way, but also look at it as the amount of stuff that I learned, especially in that year after high school where I was training. Like just what I learned about myself getting better, how to help other people get better. That's ultimately those were the seeds that are now coming to fruition now when I'm training, right? So for me, all that stuff that I went through then actually helped me so much now that. And this is what I want to be doing, too. So I look at it as, like, I didn't reach my initial goal, but my goals changed a bit. And everything, all the work that I had done then has prepared me for where I'm at right now. Okay? And so that's why I say there's no such thing as wasted, where even if you don't reach your ultimate goal, there's going to be something else that pops up for you, that you're going to be able to apply what you've been doing to that right there, okay? So don't be afraid of committing to something with the potential of maybe failing at it, because you might fail at it if you're not. Again, like I just said, if you don't put yourself in a position where you might fail at something, you're probably not pushing yourself to be as good as you could be. So if your goal, like, you might fail at it, it might be something that might be out of reach. But also, you got. You got to understand that there's going to be other stuff that comes up for you. That work is not going to be wasted. Even if you just learn how to work hard, that's going to apply to anything else that you do in life. Just learning how to have a plan, how to stick to it, how to stay disciplined. And if you do those three things, if you have those abilities, and again, you're ahead of a lot of people who don't really ever commit to anything, and they never really get better or. And they never really learn how to develop at anything. And you've gone through a whole process of learning that yourself, okay? So that's why I say, guys, there's such thing as wasted work. Everything counts. Everything is going to pay off for you in some way or the other. So. So you have to stay committed to what you're doing even when you don't see the finish line right away. Okay? You have to consistently have that faith in the work that you're putting in, because you understand that you're not gonna see progress every day. It's not linear, okay? But eventually you're going to move in that direction. You're gonna move and you're gonna make progress towards that goal that you have. And if you don't get it, well, somebody else is gonna be there for you as well. Okay? There's. There's no such thing as wasted work, so that's a big thing. And again, guys, so understanding that when it comes to making progress, the first thing is that progress is not linear. You don't Move in a straight line, guys. It's always going to be ups and downs and setbacks and failures. And setbacks and failures can be a very good thing because it means that you're pushing yourself, you're putting yourself in a position where you can fail, where you have to be better, where you have to raise your game. And if you use that to your advantage, then it's going to help make you better. Okay? The third thing to understand, guys, is to always keep planting those seeds every single day you're putting in that work. Understanding that you, when you plant a seed, you don't see it right away, right? Might take a little bit of time where it's gotta, you know, it's gotta get watered, right? And it's gotta grow a little bit before you actually get to see it. So every day you're planting those seeds so that more and more you're starting to see those seeds start to grow, okay? And then the fourth thing is you have to have faith in the work that you're putting in. When you don't see it right away, okay? You're planting those seeds, you got to have faith that that seed is actually going to sprout up and eventually you will see it. Okay? So again, hopefully that helped you guys out. Four points. Talking about making progress when you don't see it right away, I think that's a big thing to understand is that like, you know, it's not always going to be simple, it's not always going to be easy, but it's always worth it at the end. There's no such thing as wasted work. So hopefully that helps you guys out. There is a link in my bio below if you guys are interested. Running a camp in, I think about two weeks from now, three weeks from now, the first weekend of July. All the the details of that are down in the description below, so check that out. Appreciate you guys for listening. Apple Podcast. Spotify. Like I said, Apple Podcast. Leave a review for me, YouTube like and subscribe and I'll talk to you guys soon. Peace.