Day 13 - Josh Schenk -> Player Success Using The Identity System
I have the privilege of working with many high level hockey players. My job to take their mental game and performance to another level. I take player from minor hockey and help them get to the highest level possible in junior. I take players in junior and help them get to the highest level college possible. I am not an advisor. I am a performance consultant. Why does that matter to you? Well becasue you want to get to the next level in your game. I want to help you do that while making the game fun and your life exciting for you. That has been thedriving mission behind creating this group for you guys. One of the recent players I have worked with Josh Schenk has been someone who had the same desires as you. When he came to me was last season, he was a very high quality player and had a solid rookie year in the BCHL. He had 3 goals and 9 points in 47 games. Definitely not too bad. He, like many players was struggling to find that next level in his game. He knew it was something about the mental game so he DM'd me and wanted to talk. That was the first thing that told me he was going to be successful... no bullshit, he knew what he wanted and made the call he needed to make. We got on the phone shortly after. We broke down what he was struggling with. “Before this season I wasn’t confident with the puck, didn’t shoot the puck and was very hard on myself. If I had one mistake that would often be it for my mental game the rest of the night. I would be so hard on myself and it ruined games for me” This was very clear and so we talked about his game. He was losing the game inside of his head before he stepped on for each shift. I struggled with this many times in my career and knew many people who also have. I made it clear to him, it did not need to be this way. We came up with a plan. We scripted out what he needed to do to get his mental game in order. We began by reprogramming his mindset using the Identity Programming Framework. Just like the one you guys are using now.