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Is your free throw percentage up & down? When the game gets close do you start missing even the simplest shots from the floor? As the pressure increases do you start playing sloppy? I was [...]

Goal setting is a process that involves assessing one’s current level performance; creating a specific, measurable, realistic, and challenging goal for one’s future level of [...]

I currently feel really good about the work I am doing with clients. All of my regular clients seem to be moving in the direction that produce positive and success results for them. They have all [...]

Life is all about perspective and I get that what happens in your life is the best and worst of what happens in your life. You have empathy and sympathy for some of what happen in the lives of [...]

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 [...]

Athletes and sports psychologists use the mental toughness a lot but what does it mean? Generally when I work with athletes I ask them what that means versus defining it for them because [...]

As children we reveal considerable imagery capabilities but are quickly taught to neglect this form of thinking so that we can develop our analytic and language capabilities. Fortunately, [...]

G: hey Michelle, how are you? Wow that was very perceptive. You are right. Yes there is one more person. My coach. In August she was away for 4 weeks, she has been my coach for 4 years. I decided [...]

Confidence is such a dynamic social cognitive construct. In much of the reading I’ve done on confidence it talks about successful athletes having it and less successful athletes not having [...]

Schiavone beat both Williams sisters in a Milan exhibition. For Schiavone this is another great moment in her up and coming tennis career. However, Schiavone and Pennetta lost to the Williams [...]