Pressure

Many years ago when I first started doing this work I didn’t think I wanted to work with kids. However, they have taught me to be more flexible, grow, and overall better adapt. Currently, my [...]

I have worked with so many swimmers at a variety of ages and a variety of levels. What I’ve seen is that swimming brings with it all the mental challenges prevalent in other sports: focus, [...]

I’ve written several articles on burnout and it seems to be one of my top viewed articles. Why is that? I think it’s because the pressure to perform particularly at a young age [...]

A few weeks ago I starting talking about Psychology of winning and losing in sports. I talked about why winning and losing is important and how to deal with each of those scenarios. Last week I [...]

Kids need to learn that winning and losing exist, why they both exist and how to deal with them. Why? Because as adults we somehow come to think that we should only and always win. Is winning the [...]

Defending champ and #1 seed Serena Williams beat Amra Sadikovic 6-2, 6-4 but it wasn’t easy. Amra stayed with Serena breaking serve in the second set. This was partly due to her skill but [...]

Katie Ledecky deferred entrance in Stanford for 1-year so she could train for the Olympics. Katie will be headed to Rio and is expected to gain 3 gold medals but as exciting as that is, [...]

Last week I talked about how most mental or emotional change doesn’t happen by reading a book or attending a presentation: Don’t look for a book or presentation to drastically change your [...]

I got an email from a parent the other day and my heart broke for the parent and the child. Parenting is so complex and being a child is so complex. When everything is going good, it’s all [...]