Jordan Spieth summarized his final-round mindset of the British Open and the awareness and process of his mental golf game to set himself up for success. He said, “I was questioning why I [...]
After years of seeing the struggle and challenges youth sports parents deal with to keep up in the world of their kids’ sports careers, something needs to change. And, the kids are really [...]
In all the years of working with athletes, it has become apparent what the top 5 most mentally challenging sports are. The biggest factor in making this assessment is the number of places or [...]
Yips have been around for years. Some of the best athletes struggle to overcome yips. They are common in golf and in baseball mainly with pitchers. Now, they seem to be coming up more frequently [...]
In my daily appointments and interactions with youth, I’ve seen the rise of anxiety, lack of confidence, and perfectionism skyrocket for adolescents. It happens when there is a lot of pressure to [...]
Around 70 percent of kids in the United States stop playing organized sports by the age of 13 because “it’s just not fun anymore” says the Washington Post.* Remember those days when your kid was [...]
I’ve written several articles on burnout and it seems to be one of my top viewed articles. Why is that? I think it’s because the pressure to perform particularly at a young age [...]
The first steps toward auditioning well it’s is to realize you gethow nervous you are before auditions, where those nerves come from, and how the they present themselves. We all get nervous but [...]
In an age where youth start specializing in a sport by the time they are 10 or 11 years old the dream to be great in my experience can take on a couple of different routes – burnout or Olympian. [...]