Winning & Losing

Your coaching mindset, whether it is ego mindset or mastery mindset, is the #1 thing that can get you and your athletes where you want to be, or not. You just have to decide where you get the [...]

Undertraining and overtraining can lead to the opposite of what an athlete is striving for and can hinder performance. In Matt Kuzdub’ s (2017) excellent blog, Overtraining and undertraining in [...]

Many high-achieving athletes are celebrated for their capacity to achieve. Over time, it is not uncommon for their worth as a person to be contingent on those achievements. We feel inherently [...]

Thursday Women’s Semifinal  Thursday was a tough day for Serena Williams. Not only did she lose to Karolina Pliskova in the semifinals but she also lost her #1 ranking and has to wait to [...]

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 [...]

A couple of weeks ago I talked about the psychology of winning and losing. This blog has far surpassed all others on my site and in a very short period of time. Today I am going to break down one [...]

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 [...]

Ooo-eee competition can be hard to deal with, can’t it? There are so many elements present: stress, worries, doubts, fears, etc. How you show up is important. How you deal with mistakes is [...]

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 [...]

I don’t like to use the terms lost/lose. Why? Because they aren’t accurate and all these words do is make performers feel bad. It lowers confidence and motivation. Yes you may have [...]