A New Year to Unleash "The Secret"

This week, Coach Brown gave each of my teammates and me a New Year’s present, a copy of a book entitled “The Secret”. I’m only two chapters in, but what I have learned so far is that ‘the secret’ is the law of attraction; the idea that if you have good, positive thoughts, good positive things will come to you. The things that you think about are attracted to you because that is what you are telling yourself you want. The idea is that by knowing this, we can exhibit some degree of control over our thoughts and therefore exert a much greater deal of control over the outcomes of our lives. By maintaining a positive ‘frequency’ of thought, our results will be positive as well. And while we cannot always control our thoughts, we can control our feelings and how we are feeling is how we communicate our thoughts openly. This, from what I’ve gathered thus far, is The Secret.

My teammates and I arrived back on campus on Sunday, January 3rd to rest up for double sessions that started on Monday. Practices have been tough; we’re working hard and trying to get back into basketball shape. But despite the seemingly endless sprints and defensive drills, we’ve also been having an incredible time together and really getting closer as a team, players and coaches alike. Team dinners (or really just meals in general), a practice of competitions only, and a swim workout that ended in chicken fights (Kristyn and I were unbeaten in that tournament by the way) are just a few of the things that we’ve done that have ended in some serious laughter. Despite being close to the only people on campus and despite the soreness and achiness that our muscles feel, we’ve been having a great time.

We play at John Jay on Monday and start CONFERENCE PLAY a week from tomorrow, and we are preparing ourselves physically as much as possible to win games. But mental preparation and team chemistry are also key components of winning, and we’ve been working on those, too. We will be more likely to win by applying our new knowledge, The Secret; by training our minds to think of good outcomes only and by training ourselves, as a group, to stay on the same positive ‘frequency’ as one another. We have only been back for about five days, but it is clear that we have approached 2010 with a new attitude. There is a renewed sense of energy within our team; and with the hard work that we have been putting in and the continual help of “The Secret”, we will reap the benefits of it very soon.