What do you do when your are under pressure and not coping with it? Most people would crumble, I remember missing apenalty during an indoor hockey match which would have seen the team i was captain of into the regional finals of the cup. I will never forget how I missed that as it still eats away at me today. It took me ages to come to a conclusion on why I bottled, I got one in the end though and it was pretty simple. My conclusion being I cared more about the situation rather than scoring, I wanted to score but for the wrong reasons. I tried to be a hero and fucked it. I thought about the regional finals and how I was going to get the team there before I even decided where I was going to out the ball. It was painful and still is, but the one thing I will take from that is how I have learnt from that mistake. Since that miss I have become allot more aware of my thought process and decision making into a situation where I feel pressure. Pressure can make or break people. In my case it broke me and I fixed it in the long run. Now when I step onto the pitch I know I have a job to do and I won't let anything stop me and that is what I teach too, I have it drilled into my players that the most important thing apart from teamwork is passion, passion in success and passion in yourself. Believe you can do the things you want to do or atleast die trying.

If anyone reading this would like to share anything about pressure they have felt please feel free to give me a shout.

My last blog on this subject will be on the 6 Ps

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