A mission statement or vision is sometimes confused with a goal. A mission or vision is a more long term version of a goal. McDonald's mission statement is to be the world's best quick service restaurant experience. Your team's mission statement might be to be the best team in North America or even the world, but how are you going to achieve that? Your journey into making your dream a reality starts with goals. A goal is something you hope to accomplish in the relative short term. A goal is what you are striving for. A goal is what you will achieve. The information in this article is about how to set proper goals, and how to begin to achieve them.

Goals should be challenging but also at the same time, goals should be realistic. The point of setting challenging but achievable goals is to make your team live up to their full potential. To make them step up to a challenge. At the same time, if the goal is too unreachable, there will be no motivation to achieve it because your team won't believe that they can. Belief is a very powerful thing. Believing is very different from thinking. Wars are fought over beliefs. Believing you can and will achieve something is much more powerful than thinking that it is possible.

How do you define failure? If you define failure as not reaching your goals or not winning a match, you are going to develop a negative association with the word and start to believe that you should never fail. What if you defined failure as not learning anything from your mistakes? Thomas Watson, the founder of IBM, once said that "the key to being successful is to double your failure rate". Don't come down too hard on your players when they make mistakes. Just make sure that they learn from that mistake and that they won't repeat them again.

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