GOAL!
Hi, I’m Haley and I’m 13. Last year my netball team made it
to the grand final with a team we had lost to in the previous grand
final. I knew as the goal shooter that I had to improve my accuracy. I
had recently heard the story about the basketball test where a group
practised shooting goals, another group only visualised shooting goals
and the other group did nothing. Knowing the results of the visualising
group was almost as good as the practising group, that is what I did for
the week leading up to the grand final.
In the game we played
very well and were even all the way. In the final 20 seconds I had the
ball; this was my moment. The whole stadium, I found out later, was
holding their breath, but I shot the goal with total conviction that it
would go in cleanly, and that is exactly what it did! Mum asked me how I
felt at that moment with all the pressure. I answered, “Calm and
relaxed. I knew it would go in!”
As a home educating family who plan and set goals through visualisation, we have particularly enjoyed reading The Mastery Club. It is refreshing to read a personal development book in novel form written for children. We have learnt further how to develop our skills and wanted to share our stories to date.
Check out brothers, Lachlan's and Hamish's and Angus's, stories too.