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Mental skills are a long-term solution (versus therapy) as it teaches us coping skills that give us the tools and the foundation for challenges and life.

Everyone benefits from mental skills that help them work through thoughts and situations. The challenge is knowing when and how to learn these skills.

Accept there are competitors better than you and you aren’t always going to win. You can train hard physically and mentally and you still may not win.

Deliberate practice requires focused attention and is conducted with the specific goal of improving performance. Are you doing it or think you are doing it?

We can sit around with our #injury and focus on what we can’t do, make ourselves and everyone around us miserable, or we can #focus on what we can do.

Be thankful and celebrate what you do. Recognize your accomplishments and know you can continue to get better. You just have to take that chance and do it!

Quitting might seem like the answer and it might be. Be sure you have the right mental training to make the best decision for you and for your future.

Are you really aware of what you do to you? Negative self-talk+negative body language=negative outcome. Listen to yourself. Put positives in your equation!

Teach grit - courage and resolve; and strong character. Not perfectionism. Kids are afraid to make mistakes. Kids who are afraid to fail, don’t succeed.

Performance is no simple task. During competition, we can think too much (multitasking) and not do any one thing effectively. Our attention is divided.