Hello everyone! How are y'all doing? In my post, "Tips For Making a Regional Team" I talked about planning your success, and today we're going to be diving into that a little bit more. As you can see by the title, we'll be touching specifically on the topic of your vision for this season. Whether or not you've already "launched your takeoff" for this season, this new series (that I'm super excited about!) is going to walk you through a few simple steps that have really helped me to start the season off strong the past few years. We'll be going through how to create your vision, establishing step-by-step goals that will take you to that vision, and the nitty-gritty work that completes those goals. So I hope you guys enjoy this series, and with no further ado, lets do it! The reason creating a vision helps in the takeoff, is that you have a clear and specific idea of what you want to do and achieve. Like I've mentioned before, knowing for sure where you want to go, makes the journey a lot easier, and it helps you to focus and get better results from all of your efforts. In addition, it keeps you from becoming complacent, and revisiting your vision can be a big source of motivation throughout the entire season. So here's how to create it:
For example, where do you want to place at district finals, regionals, or nationals? Do you want to make a regional team, and if so which one (A or B)? Do you want to learn all the memory verses? Or all of the material? The two goals you decide on are what you'll be centering your vision around. The hardest part of this goal-making, is finding the balance between being plain unrealistic, and pushing yourself to your limits so that you can grow to your maximum potential. But to be honest, there isn't much that's really unrealistic if you're willing to do what it will take, but just remember that quizzing isn't the most important thing in your life ;). 2. Write a statement that describes your ideal end-season with those goals. This is the fun part - the actual writing of what you'll be (partially) focused on this year. Your vision statement should be between 50-100 words - not too long, but just long enough to include where you're going, with a small hint of magic. This statement should be clear and easy to read, inspirational, and describe the quality results that will come from your work this season. 3. Revise to perfection, and revisit often. You'll want to revise your statement a few times, so that it's the best it can be. It's a good idea to read and rewrite it every day over 3-4 days so that you get a new spin on it each time it's revisited - this is a strategy that book authors often use. But after this is done, I would encourage you to type up the final draft, print it out, and put it up somewhere where you'll see it everyday - your vision statement (whether it's for quizzing or any other area of life) is something good to remind yourself of before you begin working. Why? Because it reminds you of why you're working. Guess what? I made a special workbook to help you do just what I've been talking about in this post! Click the graphic below to download it! "To be continued..." (:P) Like I said, this is the first in a series of posts, discussing a few steps to take to make this season kickoff the best we've ever had. So in the sequel to this post, we'll be going over the step-by-step goals that will take you to your vision, throughout this year.
The way I designed this series, we'll have a week for each step (each post); we have this week to create our season vision statements, next week to decide on our periodic goals, etc.. And I'm going through this process with you! So whether or not you've already "launched your takeoff" for this quiz year, I would heartily invite you to go on this little journey with me! I hope that you have a fantastic week, and that your season "takeoff" is awesome as well. See y'all next Monday! Keep calm and quiz on (and out)! Your fellow quizzer, Mallory
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