An athlete explains why confidence comes from fixing specific weaknesses, not just working hard. Pick one skill you're bad at each month, practice it deliberately, and follow through on what you promise yourself. Showing up to the gym doesn't build confidence unless you're actually getting better at the things that scare you.
when I was an athlete, I seemed to lack a lot of confidence no matter the work that I would be putting in. But here's why. A lot of athletes come to me in my DMs or when they see me around and they say, Coach, how do I gain confidence? I don't know how to have more confidence on the court or on the field. And my answer to them is action. This is what I wish I would've done. If you're bad at something, go get good at it. Find one thing that you can get better at that month. If it's your jump shot, go get good at your jump shot. If you suck at nutrition, go get good at nutrition instead of just focusing so much on I'm bad at this, I'm bad at this, I'm bad at this, and never really changing it. Go get good at, at least one of those things and act upon it. Even if it's messy action, even if you don't know exactly how to do it, I promise you moving forward and acting on that, working on it, that's going to build confidence. You're gonna be able to get better at that one thing and you're gonna be able to show yourself that you're reliable, that you can trust yourself. You can show up to commitments you make for yourself. Then you show up to the game and you can have fuller confidence in yourself because you've been able to do these little things to time after time, and because you're always acting and always improving on yourself. I believe that that's really what brings confidence, and that's what I wish I would've known as an athlete. I was showing up to the gym, but I was not necessarily like highlighting and working on the things that I sucked at.
