How Do I Assess What’s Important?
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 [...]
Time Managment
As a JD/PhD graduate student who also loves sports, travel, outdoor activities, food, and music, the most common question people ask me is, “When do you have time to sleep?” I am a [...]
Pre-Game Routines
When people are asked about their pre-game rituals, most athletes have specific tasks they like to complete before competition. Cristiano Rinaldo, arguably the best soccer player, will not play a [...]
Leadership
With the beginning of 2015 and the accompanying new year resolutions, I began thinking about the qualities and characters that make an incredible leader. If you are a San Francisco 49ers fan and [...]
Time for Change
My recent relocation to the East Coast for a JD/PhD Program in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Forensics has been an interesting experience. Many great life changes have occurred [...]
What Do I Want to be When I Grow Up?
This question has haunted us in our daily lives since kindergarten when our teachers asked us to draw pictures of what we want to be in the future. I am sure our answers fell all over the [...]
Self-Esteem versus Self-Confidence: What’s the Difference?
When we read about Sports Psychology, Performance Psychology, or any Psychology for that matter, the terms “self-confidence” and “self-esteem” often get scattered haphazardly about the articles. [...]
Largely Mental
If you have been watching the World Cup, then you have seen some pretty amazing football. The games have been rather unpredictable consisting of some stunning goals and incredible defense. Among [...]
Making Positive Changes
In her last couple of blogs, Dr. Michelle Cleere was talking about the importance of visualization. Although it may seem like an abstract concept at first, with a little practice, like any skill, [...]