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You’ve heard me talk a lot about mentally preparing before an event: sports, music or professional. If you don’t prepare, you go into an event with whatever mindset and frame of [...]

Q: How do you know whether you need to work on the physical or the mental aspects of performance? A: That is a good question. There are several parts to the answer. Do you trust your training or [...]

I’ve recently had this conversation with two of my clients. They both get really nervous about competing. Those nerves get bigger and bigger until. One can’t breath and the other [...]

We never expect to be sick or injured until it happens and when it happens we aren’t prepared. I am not sure we can ever be prepared but there’s more to dealing with being sick or [...]

I was asked to write something on why high performing former athletes struggle to stay motivated to workout after the height of their sport career. I am going to talk a bit about why athletes [...]

Coaches, athletes and parents often attribute lack of good performance to things related to the mental aspects of performance such as: she was not hungry enough, he did not focus, I was so tense [...]

What’s all the (competitive) doubt about? In my mind, competition doubt includes three major features.These features may at some level exist during practice but not at the same level as [...]

This week I am spending time talking about rituals; what I like to call routines. We have routines everywhere in our daily life. For example, most of us have a routine in the morning: make coffee [...]

I am still amazing how easily we can find negatives: negative situations and negative thoughts. They are always right there for us to see, feel, small, taste and touch. Each and everyday we are [...]

I know. I know! You are probably sick of hearing about mindfulness and probably don’t want to hear much more about it. You may think it’s some new age, unattainable BS because of the [...]