Hey y'all! How ya doing? How's your break going? Today I'm going to be talking about some of the keys to having the best season ever. And to begin, I'm going to lead you through a couple things about the first key, which is creating a killer jump-start to the Luke season. - Take a break Breaking is essential to avoiding a burn out. How long the break is depends on how serious you are about quizzing, and how experienced. For example, if you're super intense with quizzing, but not well seasoned and used to studying a lot of the time, you'll want to take a longer break. The more experienced you are, the less likely a burn out will be, usually. If you take at least a short break, then it'll give you time to recharge your enthusiasm and be able to charge into Luke stronger and faster than you would otherwise. Work hard, rest hard. But it wherever you are, try to discern how you think you'll do with that, take into account your other priorities, and go with that. - Make sure your investment in quizzing (time, thought and effort) matches your priorities if you're spending too much of those things for what number it is on your priority list, then it might be a good thing to consider revising the situation. The same goes if you find yourself in an opposite situation. If you want to be balanced, it's important to pay attention to each leg of the table. If one part of your life isn't balanced in itself, then it would make sense if your life as a whole isn't either. The next key element is to make a strategy - make a battle plan for attacking the new season. First of all, assess where you are and where you would like to go this season. Remember; the only limits are the ones we ourselves create. Don't skip this part - no matter if your goal is to be the top quizzer individually at nationals, or to make the district team, everyone can benefit from taking an afternoon to draw out their plan. If your certain about where you want to go and you're already settled how to get there, you'll probably find that running with it is a lot easier. Be optimistic when making your strategy - don't get yourself discouraged before the season even has a chance to begin and show you how great it will be. Yeah, you might be needing to focus more on school, or sports, or you might even be having some significant change in your life coming up here this next year, but after three years of quizzing I'm convinced that you can't do any harm by being realistically optimistic about things. When you sit down to make the formula for next season, here's a few things to consider- time, conviction/passion, and experience. Time: Speaking from experience of doing this to a point where it was unhealthy for me (academically, personally, socially, and even physically) don't let quizzing become so important to you that you neglect everything else in your life. Your identity doesn't come from how you quiz. Love quizzing, be passionate about quizzing, do your best in quizzing, but never become so absorbed with it that it comes before God, people, your health, and your future. Quizzing's awesome right? So let's be careful not to abuse our use of it. Conviction/passion: Don't force yourself to love quizzing - look for things that inspire you about it, and talk to people about it. Coming at it from this angle usually results in stronger and more long-term excitement for quizzing. If if quizzing's something that inhabits your dreams at times, if it's something you really look forward to working on after your work is complete, if it's something you enjoy regardless of the scoreboard, if it's something that helps inspire you to work your hardest at other things in your life, and encourages you in your spiritual walk, I'd say its a healthy and beneficial hobby. Experience: Experience isn't something that has as much importance in how you form your strategies, because it might hold you back a little if you don't have much of it. But that's kind of the fun part about it too; you still get to completely discover how awesome of a quizzer you can be! That's pretty exciting. On on the other hand, if you do have a good amount of experience, then that's cool too! I've probably got it pretty much figured out; you know what's going on, and you know how to work your tail off in order to achieve your goals. The next thing you need to do when making your plan, is to figure out what your goals are. What do you want your study sessions to look like? How would you like to do at smaller tournaments, invitationals and the end of season qualifying tournaments? What do you want to get better at, more specifically? Once you have your goals, it's time to figure out what you want the format of your plan to look like. Pick one that inspires you, makes you happy, focuses you; and one that will help you reach the goals you've established to work towards. Write out steps to these goals, and it you don't know what those steps would be, cha-cha back and dissect your goal. Don't be afraid to ask your coach about it too. Now that you've got be rough draft of your battle plan, go revise it. When it says exactly what you want it to say, get creative! Get some markers, stickers, whatever you want, and make it something that excites you. Finally, hang it up somewhere you'll see it often, and study it so you know it by heart, if you don't already. The third and final key I will discuss today, is knowing how to keep on following through with what you've set out to do. You've planned you attack, so now it's time to attack your plan. Finding the right motivation is important - learn how to motivate yourself in a way that builds you up, rather than tears you down. Do do it in a way that you work out of excitement for how you've done, how you know you'll do, and not in a way that you work out of fear or guilt or not doing as well as you could. Always find a positive, and focus on that. Staying motivated is usually a little harder to do. Just remember to keep your goals in front of you, believing that you can achieve then, and then tell yourself you can, and get to work - even if you don't feel like it in that moment. Make being inspired a priority. To recap, here are the key elements we've been talking about today; - Having a killer jump-start - Making a strategy - Following through with it I hope this helps you this season. And that you have a great time! Good luck, and thanks for reading. Keep calm and quiz on (and out)! Your fellow quizzer, Mallory
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