Championing Your Career Like A Peak Performer
Championing Your Career Like A Peak Performer
Achieving flow through curiosity in the world beyond school 🤔
This week I’m breaking down aspects of what the modern-day student-athlete deals with today and how they can set themselves up for the infinite game.
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Before I get to this week’s edition, let me share a couple of my recent features.
These mean more than other features I’ve had in the past because they’re due to the rebrand/pivot I’ve done this year to focus on student-athletes.
Of course, features don’t really make or break a business, but they can be great metrics to measure if your message is resonating with the market.
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Let’s get right to it!
You’ve probably heard about a brand called What Drives Winning.
It’s based on the book of the same name by Brett Ledbetter—who’s a co-founder of the brand along with Becky Burleigh.
I stumbled upon this brand a little while after I decided that student-athlete development would be the space that I would focus on. On their YouTube channel, they state that they have “Real Conversations with Top Minds in Sports.”
A focus they’ve delivered on by featuring sit-down talks and keynotes by some of the top pro athletes, coaches, and athletic directors in the space—with the audience primarily being coaches who want to get better.
During a recent video on the topic “the modern athlete”, he opened the talk by presenting the question, “What does the modern athlete have to go through that you didn’t?”
This was also a case study the brand carried out with their community and these are the answers that were received:
Social Media: Comparison & Constant Stream of Feedback
Different Generation of Parents
NIL - Fuels Ego, Need to Create and Uphold an Image
Transfer Portal
More Outside Voices
Easier Access To Drugs
Early Specialization
Legalization of Sport Gambling
Structured Schedule to the Minute
Commercialization of Youth Sports
Widespread Use of Technology to Track Athletic Performance
The phrase “different world” gets thrown around a lot. But it’s literally a different world for modern-day student-athletes.
For SAs to truly build a strong foundation to dominate the infinite game of life, they have to focus on skills that are congruent with today’s/tomorrow’s market.
Skills Checklist ✅
LinkedIn just dropped its list of the top in-demand skills for 2023.
In the article, they reveal that: Global talent shortages have reached a 16-year high, as 75% of employers can’t find the talent they need with the right blend of technical (hard skills) and soft skills.
As business needs continue to evolve, the skills gap will only widen over time unless employers and their team members focus on upskilling and reskilling. Hard skills are the technical skills listed below.
Just like you can play the wrong game when it comes to peak performance, you can also play the wrong game when it comes to the skills you acquire.
And unfortunately, too many people are skilling up like it’s 2003—not 2023!
So do your due diligence on most if not all 10 of these skills. Research them, talk to an advisor/counselor, and see what fits your career path:
Management
Communication
Customer Service
Leadership
Sales
Project Management
Research
Analytical Skills
Marketing
Teamwork
Use the exercise I talked about last week to stack your curiosities and align with what skills fit you the most.
Last Words…
This lifeletter edition is a straightforward one.
If you want to win the game, you have to play by the rules.
You have to develop the skills and knowledge that are directly applicable in today’s marketplace.
Hope this added the fuel to ferociously launch your week! ♾️🔥🚀
See you next Monday! 😎
And when it comes to the infinite game of life…
Choose Flow.
Be Brilliant.
Ball Out.
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