Elijah Bryant, a professional basketball player, shares how he handles poor shooting performances by rewiring negative thoughts each night and focusing on controllable habits like extra shots, sleep, and nutrition. He emphasizes trusting the process through consistent routines and the importance of teammate relationships, especially while playing for Olympiacos in Greece.
Here he goes again, Elijah Bryant, dazzling dribble. No, they said go to the— they said, they said go to the man. I want to go with you. I gotta do the corona test. Elijah Bryant. Bryant. Yeah, good. Thank you. I said go to the guy, Ty. Oh. Told you. What up guys, welcome back to the channel. Um, if you're new here, doing basketball everything on and off the court, maybe some technology videos one day, but I don't want this channel to be something where it's just happy all the time. I want you guys to see the good, the bad, and the ugly. So right now we're dealing with the ugly. My jumper will not go in right now. But the problem is, is I feel like with athletes you start to second-guess yourself. You start to try to change rhythm, try to change routines, For me, what I've learned in the past when I've gone through this is just keep trusting the process. I know it sounds so mundane and everyone says it, but continue to trust your process, whatever that is, shooting extra after, all that stuff, and eventually the lid will come off the rim. So let's talk about this. And yes, I did all that and came back and got the camera. So when I was asking myself, should I make this video? And I came to the conclusion that obviously yes, I should make it because I know there's someone out there who goes through this. And let's just have a conversation about this. It's natural as an athlete, as a competitor, to feel down after you don't play to the ability you feel like you can. But I feel like you can't let that deter you from continuing to create great habits, continuing to believe in yourself and having that can-do mindset. You'll find yourself sometimes wanting to blame others, focus on things that aren't relevant, and all that is just noise and wasted energy. Yeah. And also, being that I know it's like Mental Health Month or Mental Health Week, taking care of your mental health is very important. In sports and jobs and competitive atmospheres, you can sometimes be down on yourself. One thing I like to do every single night— it's hard, it's definitely hard after a game that I feel like I could have played better— is rewire every negative thought that I had that day or negative experience. So let's say I missed a shot, rewire that in my head like I made it. Let's say I tried to blame someone else, rewire that and focus on That's one tip to, to kind of mastering your mind in a sense. Come back and quote me later. Hopefully 2-2, planning for a run-off 3 straight. DB will post it on Sunday when it drops. Hey, we'll be, uh, running right around 4-2 on the season. Hey, why you carrying the bag though? Because I'm a rookie on the team or because I'm a good guy? Good guy, good guy, great guy. Come on, Croatian crazy! Nice crystal clean white bathroom. I would love that. But back to what I was saying about, you know, having those thoughts after a game. I think the biggest thing is focusing on what you can control and what you can continue to put one penny in each day. If you can get extra shots, if you can get extra stretching, if you can get extra sleep, just focus on those little increments. But we're here in Greece. We play Olympiacos tomorrow. It's time for us to get a breakthrough win, get some stops on defense. It's time for me to hit some shots, if I'm being quite honest. So I don't have cellular service wherever I go. I just connect to the Wi-Fi. And hopefully it usually works. I connect the Wi-Fi at the airport, connect the Wi-Fi at the hotel, and I only have an Israeli SIM card and an American SIM card. Say hi, Jill. Hi. What you doing? Yeah, so, yeah. Ah, all right, so I just finished dinner and it was great. One thing I wanted to tell you guys, anyone will know this on a basketball team, no matter what team you're on, you'll always form a brotherhood. And the memories you make with that team, whether wins or losses, the experiences you have, they literally last a lifetime. Everything, you chop it up, all the brotherhood, all the experiences. Like, if you've been one of my teammates on one of my teams, college, high school, middle school, professional. I appreciate you guys. Like, when you're overseas and you don't really have like your family family, like your boys are your boys. Like, you spend more time with them than you do your family who's even over there with you. That's one thing I learned. Like, obviously I haven't played in the NBA yet. What I've heard is very cliquey. So I really do appreciate, you know, team dinners, team meals. Not roommates. I'm not cool with that. I'm a grown man. But you get the point. I like my teammates. I definitely forgot my toothbrush. Um, may I get a toothbrush and toothpaste? Thank you so much. Is it weird that I'm in Greece and we're staying at a Marriott, and usually in a Marriott Center or the Marriott Centers where I played in college. But because of corona, there's no Book of Mormons. This is my personal Book of Mormon, but if you ever go to a Marriott hotel, not during a pandemic, look in the bedside table. You will see a Holy Bible and a Book of Mormon. Why? Because the owner of Marriott is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Link in bio. Yes, I did a face mask. Redmond face mask. It's my deep cleansing facial, removes dirt from pores, never tested on animals. You know, you love the animals, you love the kids. Whoa. Usually being of ethnicity, I get ingrown hairs. But with my clippers, I forgot my oil, so I improvised the other day. I put coconut oil on my clippers and it seemed to help when I shaved. I didn't get that many ingrown hairs. So, hack. We meet again, the Corona remote. Is very wide. And now as you breathe in, breathe to the— guess what? Flip side. All right. All right, we got breakfast, shootaround, nap time. I got great sleep. Remember, continue to have positive thoughts, continue to build great habits. All right, so the point of this video was to encourage, inspire, motivate athletes, people who go through— it's time for a haircut— people who go through bad games or bad performances. And I want to end with this: we all deal with setbacks, but in the long run, the quality of our lives often depends on the quality of our habits. So let's create great habits.
