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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 [...]

I work with a lot of kids. I usually feel badly for the kids and the parents; both. The kids are not sure what’s happening and the parents feel helpless! I started with a new 13 year old [...]

Let me ask. How do you feel when people listen to you? What does it mean when someone is listening while you are talking? Can you think of someone who was a great listening? Write down all the [...]

I train a lot of tennis coaches and I also work with amateur and professional tennis players. From both sides I hear a lot of chatter about what coaches think (perception) is going on with their [...]

What’s the first step of being a leader? To think about and develop your coaching philosophy. You may have never thought about this before but your philosophy has a huge impact on your [...]

Lately I’ve been talking a lot about ‘routines’ and my Beating the Tennis Demons System ™. When I train athletes and coaches on my system I talk about pre-performance routines [...]