เข้าร่วมฟอรัมชุมชนของเรา face several challenges including managing pressure, coping with mistakes, and balancing their soccer commitments. These issues can impact their mental health and performance.

In this article, we will take a look at how high expectations and demands to be perfect hold you back from playing your best and some ways you can overcome them. There is nothing wrong with striving to be the best player you can be but demanding perfection is a sure-fire way to hold yourself back from reaching your potential.

Creating the Right Expectations

High-performance coaches can create the right expectations for their players. The Pygmalion effect states that coaches’ initial expectations of their players serve as a self-fulfilling prophecy, determining the level of success they can achieve.

However, to create the right expectations for your players, you need to understand what is realistic and what is not. You should also know how to set goals and help your team navigate interpersonal issues that may affect morale.

Those who manage their expectations and demands well use them as motivation to train hard and hyperfocus during games. They know that they can do well but their attention is focused on what will happen if they don’t perform at a certain standard. This is different from the typical mindset of those who let their expectations hold them back, which involves focusing on what will happen if they don’t win and worrying about how much they could lose.