JEM HALL
“To motivate myself, I think how I can move forward every day to help me reach my targets and this actually starts with setting targets and forming a strategy to get to them. I am grateful for the opportunity to do the job that I do every day and know that every session is my chance to learn, improve and have fun. This has gone even further now I am a Dad! A main motivator is definitely that I want to set a good standard for my ‘people’ on my clinics and to achieve this I sail with passion, focus and power. As for my clients I impress upon them that this is their opportunity to move forward and that I am a facilitator, an agent for change, but it is them that must take the big steps by focussing on skills, setting targets, self-coaching and doing drills. I empower them to be the pilots and not the passengers. We also work on their internal self-dialogue, starting statements with ‘I can, I shall, I will,’ be it loop, plane, gybe or waterstart. The clients also get motivated as I use them as examples of great sailing during video feedback and then this goes a stage further when they coach each other; peer group coaching is very powerful. With my clinics selling so early I can also tap into them developing before they come by embracing stepping up their fitness, practicing key skills before a clinic and watching videos or reading Tricktionary 3 in order to visualise what they are looking to understand and achieve.”
To motivate myself, I think how I can move forward every day.