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THERE’S NO SUCCESS WITHOUT COMMITMENT

Presented by Macka Jensen

Power of commitment: In lawn bowls as in other sports, individuals or teams who succeed have the power of commitment. If you look at successful bowlers at any level, you’ll find that some may not necessary appear the best and the brightest, nor do they have the best delivery style. Don’t judge a book by its cover, what you’ll find they have over others is that they know their outcome, model what works, take action, develop a sensory acuity to know what their getting, and keep refining it until they get what they want.

Results: In lawn bowls many whom, have natural ability and those who work hard and train in a team environment (but never train their individual skills), believe they should be at the top and should have the strongest hold in the sport, but in reality those at the top have massive commitment to success. They practice harder, are more mentally tough, play harder, want it more. They get more results at the head from their delivery skills than most bowlers and put everything into what they do. All successful lawn bowlers have that uncanny ability to focus on what is possible in a situation, what positive results could come from it. No matter how much negative feedback they get from their environment, they think in terms of possibilities, they believe that everything happens for a reason, and it serves them.

Outcome: Committed bowlers view their failures as lessons that must be added to the learning ladder of success. Within their mind, they cross out the word failure and replace it with the word outcome and commit themselves to learning from every experience. Think about it. What is one asset, the one benefit they have today over yesterday? The answer, of course, is experience!

Responsibility: Whatever happens, they take responsibility and create their own world. It’s not coincidental that they hear various viewpoints on their failures. They don’t get offended, because as achievers they tend to believe that no matter what happens whether it’s good or bad, they created it. If they didn’t cause it by their physical actions, maybe they did by the level of their thoughts. It’s empowering to know that we generate our experiences in lawn bowls by how, why and what we do in our behaviour or by trend of thought, and that we can learn from all of them.

The essentials: It’s not necessary to understand everything to be able to use it. Many successful bowlers don’t know everything; they only know how to use what’s essential without feeling a need to get bogged down in every detail. If you study bowlers who have not quite made the top you’ll find they have a working knowledge about a lot of things but often have little mastery of each and every detail of the delivery skills. By observing successful bowlers to discover what specifics actions they create to produce results, we are able to duplicate their actions and obtain their results in much less time

Resources: Accredited lawn bowls coaches and fellow bowlers are the greatest resource. Bowlers who produce outstanding results almost universally have tremendous sense of respect and appreciation for coaches and fellow bowlers. They have a sense of team, a sense of common purpose and unity they understand, that there’s no long-lasting success without rapport among both coaches and bowlers, that the way to succeed is to form a successful team that’s working together. If you neglect lawn bowling coaches or bowlers, your success is doomed to failure. Both have an input into evaluating your performance, your success reflects the wonders that can be achieved when you respect these people rather than trying to neglect or manipulate them.

To say you treat lawn bowls coaches and bowlers with respect and to do it are not the same thing. Those who succeed are the most effective in saying to others “How can we do this better?” “How can we fix this?” How can we produce better results at the head?” They know that one man alone, no matter how brilliant, will find it very difficult to match the talents of an effective team.

Enrichment: Competition and training is enjoyment; never castigate yourself, don’t get angry, love and perfect what you do. Keep cool, calm and collected and when you compete and train, relax and enjoy it as if you have done this all you life. Mark Twain once said, “The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.” One might suggest that if you enrich your world and enrich your competitiveness it will bring to it the same curiosity and vitality you bring to your play.

Training: Top lawn bowlers understand that commitment means that to maintain or improve their standards; they must have regular analysis of their delivery skills, practice with training drills and have regular evaluations on their game performance. They understand that you cannot see your own faults and that your imagination runs away on how well you play and that when they include the frontiers of modern technology (sports science in training), it is clear they are dealing effectively with coaches and players, and are confronting their most progressive challenge in the sport (correcting and improving the shots).

Summary: In this article we have briefly put together the pieces that lead to commitment; it has begin with the information that is the commodity of champions and pointing out that master communicators are those who know what they want and who take effective action, varying their behaviour until they achieve their outcome.