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january 2025

Writer's picture: Jordan HaymanJordan Hayman

January is such an exciting time for sportspeople! With a brand new year comes a fresh start, full of promise, and the perfect opportunity to set new resolutions while assessing your current sporting position. Many athletes feel driven and prepared to face new challenges, yet the excitement can easily become overwhelming. In this post, I’ll share some powerful psychological strategies to help you conquer your goals this January and beyond.


Embrace a Growth Mindset


The beginning of the year often brings a surge of motivation, but it's crucial to recognize how your mindset can impact your performance. The idea of a growth mindset, introduced by psychologist Carol Dweck, emphasizes that abilities and intelligence can be cultivated through effort and perseverance.


Embracing a growth mindset encourages you to view challenges as chances to improve rather than obstacles.


Success leaves clues. Reflect on your past achievements and setbacks. Wat were you doing around your most successful performances. Equally, account for things that you were NOT doing around your most successful performances. Perhaps even look to successful athletes in your field who have faced similar hurdles, and consider what you can apply from their experiences, to your own practices.

Eye-level view of a running track at dawn
Jannik Sinner wins the 2025 Men's Australian Open

Goal setting


I am sure that we have all heard of SMART goals, and whilst I have no issue with this approach specifically, it often overlooks important factors of goal setting, and progress towards them.


Acknowledging that progress is rarely linear and consistent is a crucial part of goal setting. One day you can lift a certain weight in the gym, the next day the same weight can feel much heavier. The approach to the goals ought to be related to performance rather than result; Focus on performing a certain few skills to a certain level, rather than winning competitions as this has many more factors that can influence it.


Use tools like training journals, apps, or even sports partners/parents to help measure your achievements. A study by the Dominican University of California found that people who shared their goals were 42% more likely to achieve them compared to those who kept goals to themselves.

Close-up of a detailed calendar with marked goals
The men's Six Nations begins in a few short weeks. Each team and each player will have their own goals.

looking forward


Thank you for reading this first newsletter and blog post. I hope that you have found it valuable, interesting and informative.


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Wishing you all the best in your goals for 2025.


Thanks!

Jordan

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