Tennis

I recently had two separate conversations with tennis players, one who was a 3.0 and one who wants to be a 3.5. It seems that the 3.0’s always want to be a 3.5 and the 3.5’s want to be a 4.0. In [...]

I’ve been doing a lot of work with performance profiling. What does that mean? Performance profiling is a way of profiling the important aspects of your sport, music or life. It helps you [...]

I want to talk a bit about how people are affected by competition and the elements/distractions/difficult moments of competition that sometimes come with it. Here a few examples: 1. Men’s [...]

My #1 blog is on How to Deal with Losing. It’s been #1 for many years. Why is that? Are people really looking for a way to deal with losing or are they interested in looking for a way to [...]

In my last blog I talked about how to plan, prepare and deal with holiday stress. That’s definitely a good piece of information to revisit: How to Deal with Holiday Stress. Some of what I [...]

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 [...]

Drastically change your life in what way? Your ability to learn new ways of coping with mental patterns and emotions. Yes I’ve written books and done plenty of presentations. Why do I do [...]

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 [...]

I train a lot of tennis coaches and I also work with amateur and professional tennis players. From both sides I hear a lot of chatter about what coaches think (perception) is going on with their [...]

Lately I’ve been talking a lot about ‘routines’ and my Beating the Tennis Demons System ™. When I train athletes and coaches on my system I talk about pre-performance routines [...]