Winning & Losing

Deliberate practice requires focused attention and is conducted with the specific goal of improving performance. Are you doing it or think you are doing it?

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.

Beating yourself up can literally beat you out of a win. When you make a mistake or lose a point or don’t win, learn from it and move on.

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.

Design your competition strategy to include the physical and the mental aspects for your particular "game" day. The combo allows the magic to happen.

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 [...]

Good communication is often the difference between success and failure in the relationship between a coach and their athlete. The impact of verbal and nonverbal communications is the key to how [...]

Coaches can break bad habits and help athletes break bad habits. It's difficult to change what's comfortable and familiar, even if it is negative or not working. Many athletes may not realize for [...]

Setting goals can be highly misunderstood. But it is critical to get you to where YOU want to be! You can’t get somewhere without knowing how to get there.