Will power goals and performance

Goal setting, goal directedness and goal achievement are the most important skills you will get from you rugby experience. Theses traits will set you on a path to success, get you better interviews, get you better jobs and make you more money.

This New York times article has some useful tips:
1. practice makes will power stronger and better
2. blood sugar affects your resolve
3. getting better on one area of you life will improve other areas.
4. spending energy in one area, reduces will in other areas

The article is short and full of references to real research results so read it, and if you are really interested track down the original sources.

Here's how we apply it to rugby.
-practice setting goals and attaining them, and you will get better.
-eat good food in the right quantities at the right time for performance, also focus on replenishing energy as needed--you'd be surprized how much energy you need to really perform.
-set and achieve rugby goals and your discipline for attaining other goals will increase.
-when concentrating on goals in one area, this may require setting aside other goals, for example if we are working hard for playoffs, we delay achievement in other areas--don't study for the MCAT's during the playoff push if we can control it.

Goal setting and achievement is another important self programming skill useful in rugby and in life.