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I thought I’d take a break from talking about tennis just for a moment to talk about Landon Donovan. Some of you might be asking, who is Landon Donovan? Landon led the Earthquakes to two [...]

On Saturday Roger defeated Stan Wawrinka in the ATP World Tour finals. At age 33 Roger had won 17 major grand slam titles spent 302 weeks at #1 but this Autumn where he’s “saving [...]

What does rock solid confidence mean? True self-confidence – is a realistic (being realistic is very important and it’s not about someone else’s realistic expectations but [...]

    John Wooden.   Arguably the most influential coach in sports history. The majority of people have heard his name because he became the winningest college coach in NCAA [...]

Nerves happen! You can’t really get away from nerves. We all have them. The initial butterflies and increase in heart rate is a way of your body preparing for what’s about to happen. [...]

  My recent relocation to the East Coast for a JD/PhD Program in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Forensics has been an interesting experience. Many great life changes have occurred [...]

Tennis is not like any other game. It’s you against an opponent but mainly you against yourself and the game doesn’t really stop. There’s not a lot of time to sort through what [...]

What does playing out of your mind mean? You compete at 100%, leaving everything on the court and focus on playing out of your mind versus focusing on the thoughts going through your head. [...]

  This question has haunted us in our daily lives since kindergarten when our teachers asked us to draw pictures of what we want to be in the future. I am sure our answers fell all over the [...]

The monotony of every day life sometimes feels like the real world application of running on a treadmill: working hard but getting nowhere. It is often very difficult to recognize our own [...]