Hockey and Your Inner Standards of Success

Being involved in competitive sports allows you to experience success. Every athlete views success differently simply because every athlete has different inner standards for success. Inner Standards are the expectations that you have of yourself and these allow you to decide whether or not you are successful. People-other than yourself-affect your inner standards which may also be different depending on the performance situation.

Exercise:”Inner Standards of Success”

• List those people whom you feel influence your Inner Standards of success as an athlete:

• Choose three of the people listed above whom influence you the most. For each individual write down what you perceive to be the success standards that these people set for you.

Person #1:
Standards They Set:

Person #2:
Standards They Set:

Person #3
Standards They Set:

• Compare these lists and determine how they are similar and how they are different:

• Are you comfortable with these standards or expectancies? Yes or No

If you answered No, please think of two ways you could change these standards:

• Identify your own Success Standards. Review and incorporate the input from others listed above if these hare helpful:

• Identify an important role model for you who was/is in competitive sport and state why it is that you look up to him or her: