How a Mental Game Coach Can Help You What can a Mental Game Coach do for you during the COVID-19 pandemic? Many athletes no longer feel like athletes since they are not training or competing. You … Sports Psychology Tip
Don’t Let One Mistake Affect Your Performance Does making a mistake affect your performance in competition? Maybe you can refocus and be your best for the rest of the competition. Or possibly, one mistake turns into … Sports Psychology Tip
How Perfectionism Affects Sport Performance What are your thoughts on perfectionism for athletes? In your opinion, should the goal be to have a perfect performance? So many athletes are confused by the perfection. Is perfectionism good or … Sports Psychology Tip
How to Develop a Competitive Mindset What is a competitive mindset? Can you learn to develop a competitive mindset? Two mindsets are important for your success. The are: the training mindset and the competitive mindset. These … Sports Psychology Tip
How to Close Out Games and Maintain Leads Are you confident in your ability to close out games? Or do you become fearful and play sloppily when you have a lead? Whether your sport is hockey, … Sports Psychology Tip
How to Improve Mental Toughness in Football How do you feel when your coach runs a long, strenuous practice? When your coach has you run 20-30 minutes of sprints after you just trained for two hours. … Sports Psychology Tip
Overcoming Adversity Using Mental Toughness Do your current athletic challenges feel impossible to overcome? Adversity can lead to you feeling angry, frustrated and dejected. You feel all alone, lost and can see no way out or end in … Sports Psychology Tip
How to Have Stable Confidence Do you buy into the negativity from other people? Do you lose confidence when others critique your game? Just this week, I received a message from a soccer player who said: … Sports Psychology Tip
The Importance of Having a Plan B ‘Expect the unexpected’ is a notion that is good in theory but rarely put into action by athletes. The unexpected happens all the time in competition but rarely are … Sports Psychology Tip
Having Confidence in Your Skills Mental blocks are often the most frustrating hurdles for an athlete to encounter. The thing that makes mental blocks so challenging and irritating is that you know how to perform a … Sports Psychology Tip