Competition

To find another gear, you have to develop the ability to push past your best effort. Then, you can go places where you (mentally) thought you couldn’t go.

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.

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

Traditional flow is the ability to freely move through a performance with little to no thought - fully immersed, focused, and enjoying their performance.

Focus is tough. The problem is not necessarily how much you have going on in your brain, but that all of IT is taking away from performing (well).

Some of us are born with a genetic level of fear – nature, but much of our fear also develops through our experiences – nurture. Once fear sets in, it holds on tight. Regardless, you can learn to [...]

When you are winning, the hardest part is keeping the lead. Or you take the lead, and now you have to keep it. Or worse, you lose the lead, and now what?

Pain can be perceived as your friend or your foe. Define your pain, acknowledge it, and figure out the next best step to use it to your advantage.