Adopt the Forrest Gump winning attitude

Adopting the right attitude whilst dealing with the ups and downs of a future professional soccer career, can be the difference between success and failure.

It really can make or break your dream.

It has been found that a common trait shared by very successful soccer players is their overall-winning attitude.

In fact, most of the professional soccer clubs have a team of psychologists and therapists whose sole purpose is to monitor players' mental state periodically.

Soccer players with a positive attitude fare much better during games than those with a less optimistic viewpoint.

Forrest Gump is the main character in a movie with the same title. The movie traces Forrest's life from the time he is a child through to early middle age.

Born with a below average intelligence, but an amazing ability to focus all his attention and energies on clearly defined goals, Forrest overcomes seemingly insurmountable obstacles to achieve great success.

His great ability to focus on a Table Tennis ball, gives him a talent for winning at world class level in Ping-Pong, it also leads him into money by way of product endorsement and he then realized a long held ambition (borrowed from a colleague in Vietnam) to buy a shrimp fishing boat that becomes the basis for great financial success.

The message of the film is very clear. Undistracted by extraneous happenings, Forrest focused on the few talents he had, and he rode them to great success and great happiness.

What a lesson for all of us in these days, when so many have such great anxiety and self pity, and when so many are so busy placing the blame for their unhappiness and "failures" on others.

In soccer, if we go into every training and match with a Forrest Gump-like focus and positive attitude we could develop to the maximum and enjoy a long and successful professional soccer career.