Focus & Awareness

Yips have been around for years. Some of the best athletes struggle to overcome yips. They are common in golf and in baseball mainly with pitchers. Now, they seem to be coming up more frequently [...]

A musician reached out as she was struggling in practice and during performances. This initial conversation was like many that I’ve had in the past with musicians and athletes alike. However, [...]

I love my work. I love it because clients really can find the ‘success’ they are looking for and it isn’t that difficult; really. I realize the concept of mental training is still so [...]

You’ve heard me talk a lot about mentally preparing before an event: sports, music or professional. If you don’t prepare, you go into an event with whatever mindset and frame of [...]

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 [...]

We are so busy getting caught up in what we aren’t doing, shouldn’t have done or aren’t doing right that we forget sometimes that it’s important to be thankful for what we [...]

So many of the clients I see live in either black or white; all or nothing. Much of the conversation goes like this: well, if I can’t win (the audition, award, game, etc.) then I might as [...]

How does imagery really work? Psychoneuromuscular theory: when an Elite Performer practices using imagery, they imagine movements without performing them, although the brain interprets this as if [...]

This is the last correspondence I had with this athlete. If you’ve been reading the progression over the past 8 or so weeks you’ve seen the openness, awareness and progress this elite [...]

I’ve developed a new tactic for helping my athletes become more aware of cognitive and somatic ‘feelings’. It is called the ‘timeout’. What is it The timeout is a [...]