The Importance of Time Management Strategies For Athletes in College

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You finally finished high school, passed your college entrance exams, and chose the college you will enroll in. Another great thing is that you have been given the opportunity to avail of scholarship for athletes.

You are thrilled, but simultaneously nervous upon entering the college campus, you have no idea what to do next. You first visit your coach and he or she told you that practice starts early in the morning.

After seeing your coach, you subsequently go on to class. As a summary, the first day was not too bad, no assignments, no formal lectures, just plain introduction of the topic and course curriculum.

Next day, you awake early in the morning, refreshed and ready to train. The coach gives you a hard time, and you tell yourself that it is only natural for coaches to give newbie’s a hard time.

After training, you go to your dorm to get ready for your classes. You are jerked into shock when you attend your first class, the professor who seemed so nice turns out to be your worst nightmare. The professor gives each of the students a 1500 word essay with a short deadline, and you tell yourself that you can manage. On the next class, the situation gets worse.

After finishing the class, you then go over the field and make friends with the other athletes, everyone is talking about party on that night and they invite you to go. Naturally, since you wish to make an impression and seek their acceptance, you accept their invitation immediately.

In the party, a thought occurs to you that you still have that 1500 word essay to work on. However, you think that you can still manage and the deadline is not that short.

After the party, you’re tired and return to your dorm room, and as if all the things you experienced on that day wasn’t enough, your roommate is also having a small party in your dorm room. The music is loud, you can't study or sleep and the place is a complete mess.

You then wake up worn out and stressed out, you go to the practice field late, and your performance is the worst performance in your entire life and adding to your poor performance is the thought of the 1500 word assignment still undone. Your coach is angry with you because of your performance, he gives a hard time and tells you to stay and clean up the locker room.

At last, you finish cleaning the locker room and you go to your first class of the day as fast as you can, but still, you arrive to class late. Your professor, as a punishment, doesn't let you into the class because of your tardiness.

What is worse is that the professor is giving tips on how to write about the essay. You think  about failing the class but that would mean your athlete scholarship would be revoked.

All these may seem far fetched but such situations do happen to college athletes. They should have a more sophisticated time management techniques. Being admitted to college is quite easy. The hard part is effectively using your time to accomplish all the activities you are committed to, and never affecting your studies.

Many students in college find it challenging to successfully manage their time between studies and other extra-curricular and social activities. It is especially so for college athletes. They got to undergo stressful trainings and cannot afford to lapse in their schoolwork as they have to keep their scholarship.

The sudden spike in responsibility is very shocking for college students, especially freshmen and college athletes. You just have to study harder and train harder because of the new level of competition.

You may be the track star back in high school, but in college, many competitors can easily beat your record in high school. You have to train more diligently to keep competing in your sport.

The following are several time management tips for college athletes:

One of the priorities you should include in your time management planning is study time. You have probably done it before back in high school, but it is slightly different in college. It will be a lot harder as you have less time for studying.

As an athlete in college, you can get conflicts on your match schedules and your classes or even exams. Colleges offer tutors for college athletes to avoid missing their classes and school matches.

Go talk to your professor about your schedule and he or she might consider transferring you to another class with the same subject at another time.

When you usedevelop effective time management strategies, you will definitely have sufficient time for your trainings, matches, study time, socializing, and your personal life.

Tapping Into the Power of Your Subconscious Mind

The subconscious mind lies within the deep recesses of the brain and most us have not the ability nor the mental vision to fathom how it exists, what it does and which part of our cortex spawns it. Coined and first defined by the famous and one of the first to be in the field of psychology, one Pierre Janet, who in his studies found that the human mind has a hidden level of awareness and some sort of mechanical response and storage system that he called the ‘automatism’ of the human mind. He discovered that even when the conscious mind was rendered inoperable, the subconscious was something he could talk to. It held everything about the subject; his personality, his traits, his memory and his cognitive knowledge, which was amazing. This discovery spawned the works of people who, in years to come, would be considered the authority for subjects of the mind, such as Sigmund Freud and Fredrick Allen Soho.

It soon became apparent that the focus should not have been on the conscious mind, but rather,; the true power, the one dominant factor within the mind, the one that defines the human soul and the human spirit is the subconscious mind. Only then was the power of the subconscious mind realized. Since then, science has been for the longest times, seeking ways and means to reach, directly or indirectly, the subconscious mind. Tinkering around with stimulants which resonate with the cortical response systems within specific lobes in the brain, they have finally scratched the surface of the secrets of the subconscious.

They include autogenics, affirmation messages and stimulation, biofeedback, magnetic field induction, binaural beats, traditional and advanced forms of hypnosis and subliminal messages. These methods of delving into the recesses of the subconscious have one singular purpose, and that is to find a way to unlock the true power of the brain. Till this day, science has no idea, no clue, stabbing in the dark when it comes to neurology - the brain is only active at levels between 5 to maybe 20% (in some individuals) and the mammal family have certain similarities with the animals around us. Science has discovered that certain parts of the brain which are similar to dolphins' have areas which could potentially grant us the power of near-psychic ability and sound manipulation.

Once we are able to understand how to truly manipulate the subconscious can the unbelievable be a reality for us. For now, science, with these methods, has the ability to give us super states of the mind - which means we can conquer things which seem to be unassailable in the past, meaning we can kick bad addictions, make us smarter, understand complicated calculations within moments and even adopt a third or even fourth language within minutes. You too can take advantage of the advancement in such technologies and tap into the power of your subconscious mind is what matters now for the industry of self development.


Don’t hesitate!