expectations

Mental Moment-are you prepared

Written by on December 19, 2012

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Are you prepared for the holidays? It may be important to take a couple of moments to think about what comes up mentally & emotionally for you around the holidays and figure out better ways to deal with those things! What comes up This can be a very difficult time of the year for many people. Here are some of the comment mental & emotional events that come up: Isolation-not having family or friends to spend the holiday with Expectations-expecting the holidays to be something they aren’t Family-dealing with family can be stressful particularly if you deal with them in … Continued

Mental Moment-acknowledge how far you’ve come

Written by on November 15, 2012

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Physical performance changes. You get good at one thing and add something else. You move into a different arena. You change your medium. Most of us are always learning something new, changing what we do or finding a new way to do what we already do that will add additional quality. Why wouldn’t mental skills be the same? Why wouldn’t you want to develop and continue to develop your mental skills to coincide with your physical skills. Athletes hire a coach to take them to the next level. Why wouldn’t you hire a mental training coach to help take you to … Continued

Mental Moment-expectations

Written by on October 26, 2012

Expectations

Expectations can get us in a lot of trouble particularly when we don’t know that we have them or what they are. As an elite performer it may important to take a couple of minutes to think about what your expectations are.Where do they stem from? Are they realistic? Do I even need them? Familiar situations Many times new situations aren’t really new. They are attached to past experiences/expectations. If we aren’t able to realize that the situation we are in now is part of an old pattern then we might also not realize that we are responding in old, … Continued

Transference of expectations can negatively affect performance

Written by on July 7, 2012

Its hard to view people in a way that is different than how you think you should view them or in a way that is different than how they want you to see them; perspective. For your purposes I am talking about agents, boards, managers, coaches, etc. Most of you probably see people similarly and don’t differentiate between them but does that always work? I was working with a top ranked college swimmer who had the same coach from the age of 5 through the age of 21. My client loved her coach and had grown as a swimmer and … Continued

You either have it or you don’t

Written by on May 19, 2012

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As an athlete do you view confidence as something you either have or you don’t? Most of the athletes I work with do. What do you think? Defining confidence Confidence is a state of being. A state is the condition of a person under curtain circumstances. For example, you might be really confidence on a 6.2 mile, easy training run but in a 6.2 mile race not so confident. If  you are running the same distance, what’s the problem? In the first scenario you are running 6.2 miles, alone and at an easy pace. In a 6.2 mile race you … Continued

Diary of a cyclist-how does crying in sport translate into life

Written by on February 11, 2012

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G: Wow..that was perceptive. I never thought of it that way. Why I used to cry that is. Yes that is it. I felt if I spoke up and said what I really felt….well I would cause a major fight! Or arguement. I still do this with my husband but he is not like my dad!! I mean that sometimes when I am frustrated I would rather cry than let it all out since I don’t want to start a huge fight over something that may not be worth the fight. BUt I have tried this year unknowingly that this and … Continued

Diary of a cyclist-nationals were awful, I choked

Written by on February 4, 2012

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G: hey Michelle, how are you? Well I had a TERRIBLE race at nationals. I choked. After all the training, hard work and mental focus…I still choked. I don’t know this has quite happened this bad before. I was almost in tears pre event of nerves. I tried to do relaxation, focus, music, all of it. After my performance, which I did not go as hard as I could since I was so scared to go too hard (this only is in this event that I feel this way) I could not stop crying. I HATE THIS about myself. I … Continued