Who missed Harry Kane's message?
Success doesn't happen by accident, in life we get out of it what we put into it, just plodding along in your job thinking you deserve promotion and a chance to show what you can do, is a fantasy.
If you want to move up the ladder being good at your job has little to do with it, everyone should be good at their job anyway, it how you handle problems that matter, business will always employ and promote problem solvers. You can take courses and prepare yourself for better, thus showing an employer that you can take on new ideas and that you want to improve yourself.
Football is no different. There are many aspects to football other than just kicking a ball. Their is the media side, diet, fitness and most crucially the mental side. It's that mental side that determines whether you will work to continually improve or just work until you get to where you want to be and stop, which in effect, with everyone else improving past you, is going backwards.
The type of player who wants to keep improving has a winning mentality and they are the leaders in your team, whether verbally or through their actions, if you do it through skill, people look to you, look up to you, to make the difference. You can't have a leader in the side who is happy just plodding along, doing what he does, nobody is going to take any notice of him, he wouldn't have the respect.
Harry Kane shows the right mental attitude in abundance and it comes shining through in his recent interview with Goal.
He has prepared himself for where he wants to get to and having got there looks to push on, continually improve, not think I have made it and stagnate, like many. It's a lesson for life, not just football, everyone is where they are in life because of the decisions they have made, nobody has made those decisions for them.
You can take the whine and moan approach or you can take the Harry Kane approach, one works, one doesn't and to increase your chances then you associate with people who have the right mental attitude, otherwise people like to drag you down to their level.
Once again that is no different in a football club, those without the right mentality need to be moved on. An individual can either be inspired and start to work at improving themselves, as I think Érik Lamela may be doing and I hope Mousa Dembélé decides to do, or ignore it and stagnate.
As a winner, as someone who wants to improve, you want like-minded people around you. You want them because they are the mental winners and with more of them in a squad you stand a far greater chance of winning things, quite apart from it being a more enjoyable environment.
These players congregate at the biggest clubs because that is where they get rewarded and where they win things, they are clubs with that mentality instilled within them. It is probably the single most achievement of Sir Alex Ferguson's career, he totally changed the mentality at Manchester United throughout the club.
Over to you Mauricio.
Further Reading
Heavy Spanish influence in the Premier League now - should we be buying more?
Mandžukić signing pushes Llorente to the Juventus exit door
Galatasaray look to Llorente instead of Soldado
If you want to move up the ladder being good at your job has little to do with it, everyone should be good at their job anyway, it how you handle problems that matter, business will always employ and promote problem solvers. You can take courses and prepare yourself for better, thus showing an employer that you can take on new ideas and that you want to improve yourself.
Football is no different. There are many aspects to football other than just kicking a ball. Their is the media side, diet, fitness and most crucially the mental side. It's that mental side that determines whether you will work to continually improve or just work until you get to where you want to be and stop, which in effect, with everyone else improving past you, is going backwards.
The type of player who wants to keep improving has a winning mentality and they are the leaders in your team, whether verbally or through their actions, if you do it through skill, people look to you, look up to you, to make the difference. You can't have a leader in the side who is happy just plodding along, doing what he does, nobody is going to take any notice of him, he wouldn't have the respect.
Harry Kane shows the right mental attitude in abundance and it comes shining through in his recent interview with Goal.
“I think I’ve matured - I’ve had to mature and get used to a different life on and off the pitch. But that’s part of it and I was ready for that. I had prepared myself because this is where I always wanted to get to.
“It doesn’t stop here. I want to keep progressing and keep working hard - and keep getting better.
“I still do work on my finishing after training. I do it every day. I think it’s important to keep practicing and improve. I’ve had that attitude since a young age - to work as hard as I can. I will always continue to do that.
“The manager has done a great job this year. He’s used a lot of young players and that’s a great starting point. Everyone is fully behind the coach and he’s behind the players.”
He has prepared himself for where he wants to get to and having got there looks to push on, continually improve, not think I have made it and stagnate, like many. It's a lesson for life, not just football, everyone is where they are in life because of the decisions they have made, nobody has made those decisions for them.
You can take the whine and moan approach or you can take the Harry Kane approach, one works, one doesn't and to increase your chances then you associate with people who have the right mental attitude, otherwise people like to drag you down to their level.
Once again that is no different in a football club, those without the right mentality need to be moved on. An individual can either be inspired and start to work at improving themselves, as I think Érik Lamela may be doing and I hope Mousa Dembélé decides to do, or ignore it and stagnate.
As a winner, as someone who wants to improve, you want like-minded people around you. You want them because they are the mental winners and with more of them in a squad you stand a far greater chance of winning things, quite apart from it being a more enjoyable environment.
These players congregate at the biggest clubs because that is where they get rewarded and where they win things, they are clubs with that mentality instilled within them. It is probably the single most achievement of Sir Alex Ferguson's career, he totally changed the mentality at Manchester United throughout the club.
Over to you Mauricio.
Further Reading
Heavy Spanish influence in the Premier League now - should we be buying more?
Mandžukić signing pushes Llorente to the Juventus exit door
Galatasaray look to Llorente instead of Soldado
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