How Do You Get Into the Zone?
We’ve all felt it. Those moments when everything is just working as it should. You’re in the “zone”, or in the “flow.” Wikipedia tells us, “flow, also known as [...]
Helping Your Child Feel and Perform Like a Winner
Competitive sports, when held in the hands of appropriate adults, provides kids with critically important life skills that will eventually translate to success in many other performance arenas in [...]
In Attitude, Becoming a Champion, Out of Control Emotions/Jealousy and Anger, Peak Performance Strategies, Teamwork
Posted Staying Focused When Teammates are Negative
So you’ve been practicing your mental toughness techniques, learning how to stay focused rather than being distracted by negative thoughts, and you’ve even gotten a handle on how to stay positive [...]
In Attitude, Becoming a Champion, Handling Failure/Adversity, Peak Performance Strategies, Winning/Losing
Posted How to Maintain a Positive Attitude When You’re Losing
How to Maintain a Positive Attitude When You’re Losing This post is dedicated to a reader who asked a very important question about how to stay positive even when you know you are losing. I can [...]
Practice Versus Competition: Why You Excel in Practice
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 [...]
The Mistake Ritual – Updated 2020
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 [...]
Understanding Repetitive Performance Problems
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 [...]
In Coaching: Good/Bad/Unfair, Motivation/Goals, Peak Performance Strategies, Problems in Youth Sports, Teamwork
Posted Getting Off On The Right Foot And Going In The Right Direction: Coach’s Office
The new year is here! Is your child athlete feeling ready? As a coach, you have an enormous impact onn your team’s success and attitude. Are you ready to help your athletes make 2020 the [...]
In Becoming a Champion, Choking/Fears/Slumps and Blocks, Motivation/Goals, Peak Performance Strategies, Winning/Losing
Posted Goals & Expectations: Do’s & Don’ts For The Athlete
The wonderful world of EXPECTATIONS and GOALS. It’s the start of a new season and with that, many athletes begin to set goals: “I’m going to finally make the varsity.” “I’m going to nail down [...]
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Athletes! You’re Home And Can’t Train The Way You Need To! Now What Do You Do?! Managing Fear & Uncertainty Is What Mental Toughness Is All About!
As you know, physical training is critically important. You can’t become a champion without it! However, when you go to compete, your confidence and success is totally dependent upon [...]
