Control

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.

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

Ignite the fire inside. When you train your brain to work with your body, you find the happiness in playing again and your passion for this thing you love.

Learn to see the difference in what you control and what you don’t. Separate what is out of your control. Focus on what you control to do your best.

Off days show up in a physical form but it is really stemming from something mental – lack of focus, wrong focus, being in their head, negative chatter.

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?

Motivation can be tough sometimes, but so can luck. When you use ‘luck’ as your barometer, then winning and losing doesn’t have anything to do with how much training you’ve done or how you’ve [...]

Can butterflies really turn into full blown anxiety and create worry, doubt, and fear? Anxiety appears cognitively through worry and fear. It also appears somatically through things like [...]

There are a variety of reasons to design practice sessions that set the stage for what you as a coach want to happen in practice – you want to facilitate and ensure everyone gets the most out of [...]

Are you aware of what you are actually thinking – do you practice mindfulness? Every day you have thoughts about who you are and what you’re doing, and then you think it’s who you are. [...]