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 [...]
About one year ago, I wrote about how stress impacts our bodies. In the short term, we may feel anxious, nauseas, even suffer from headaches and sweaty palms. In the long term, stress can be a [...]
I was watching the US Open yesterday and the commentators were talking about the important of ‘good’ arrogance to successful tennis players. Lots of undefined language in that [...]
I got my first professional book review in Inside Tennis Magazine and it’s pretty good. It’s entitled Cleere Vision: From Here to There (left, bottom, page 39). I also have an ad on [...]
How do I use breathing? What? It might sound silly because you breath and you don’t have to think about it. However besides breath giving us life it has many additional benefits that can [...]
