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Any perfectionists here in the community? Perfectionism – A focus on needing to do everything perfectly. Little tolerance for making mistakes, little to no tolerance for failure. [...]

Over 5 years ago I wrote a post about what was the driving purpose behind youth sports – winning or learning. This was turned on by an email I received from a father of a 10 year old [...]

Performances are made OR broken before they even start! What you focus on and think about before your start can either keep you calm and enhance your confidence or do the opposite, stress you [...]

Old school coaching is being excessively hard on your athletes, embarrassing and demeaning them, yelling at them and withholding positive feedback. The myth of old school coaching is that this [...]

On the surface, perfectionism may seem like a positive trait for an athlete to have. After all, isn’t it every athlete’s goal to strive for perfection and settle for nothing less than the best? [...]

Athletes notice a trend when they first enter sports: they are unstoppable in practice, but during a game, they’re unnoticeable. Skills don’t diminish from practice the day before to the next day [...]

One of the bigger mental mistakes athletes across all sports make is to hang onto their mistakes during competitions. The time to work on your mistakes is ALWAYS in practice and NEVER while [...]

LOOK FOR THE CHALLENGE IN THE CATASTROPHE When the garbage hits the fan and bad things befall us, we always have two choices: We can focus on the catastrophe of it all and how terrible things are [...]

Many repetitive performance problems that athletes struggle with are a direct result of that individual’s nervous system sensing danger and automatically shutting down. These are problems [...]