Luck or Internal Motivation
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 [...]
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 [...]
There are a variety of reasons to design practice sessions that set the stage for what you as a coach want to happen in practice – you want to facilitate and ensure everyone gets the most out of [...]
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 [...]
Golf is intense and seems to attract an intensity does it? If you take an average, normal person (whatever that means) and you teach them to play golf. It’ll bring out seemingly all of the [...]
I was asked to write something on why high performing former athletes struggle to stay motivated to workout after the height of their sport career. I am going to talk a bit about why athletes [...]
I’ve written several blogs about action plans. I’ve written about how to use a performance profile. I’ve written about setting goals. I’ve written about putting together [...]
We are so busy getting caught up in what we aren’t doing, shouldn’t have done or aren’t doing right that we forget sometimes that it’s important to be thankful for what we [...]
Last week I talked about acceptance and intuition. Two important concepts in the process of change. Today I want to talk a little bit about what I think is the third important concept of change: [...]
How do elite athletes make it to the top? How did they get started in the sport? What was their youth sports experience like? What role did their parents play in their youth sports career? [...]
What does ‘Happy New Year’ mean to you? For me it means that hopefully 2012 is a happy year. And ‘happy’ means what? It means different things to different people and that [...]