Articles and Blog Posts
Discover Your Cocoon of Quiet Confidence: Five Ways to Go Within
Goal setting can either be a help or a hindrance, depending upon how we go about setting our intentions. An Outcome Goal makes a definitive statement about winning a race, or defeating an opponent. While these intentions can serve as great motivators in practice, they will serve as a detriment just prior to our competition. Why would I say this?
When we place the outcome of any experience in the hands of others judgment (which certainly hands them a great deal of power) or performance (we cannot control our opponent) we create anxiety and self-doubt.
5 Steps To Motivate Adolescents
One of the biggest challenges for educators and coaches over the past several years has been finding proven methods for engaging young people in creating self-direction, and empowering them to overcome the obstacles in their lives. In other words, how can we get students, and student-athletes to be more intrinsically engaged in their endeavors, and best manage their emotions and behaviors?
There is a difference between motivation and self-regulation. Students, and athletes, can be motivated to succeed yet lack the necessary regulatory skills to get started, or to complete the task.
5 Ways to Maximize Sport Performance
By establishing and connecting with your personal preparation (mental and physical), understanding and acknowledging your unique qualities, and celebrating with the people who believe in you, you begin to embrace improvement and feel good about your effort and progress. This creates a cycle of success! When we experience any degree of success, we learn to look for, and expect, good things to happen. You begin to feel in control of your life, and your sport.
Book Recommendations
Winning the Mind Game
John Edgette
Mindset
Carol Dweck
Willpower
Roy Baumeister
Flourish
Martin Seligman
iGen
Jean Twenge
The Art of Mental Training
Gonzales
Way of the Peaceful Warrior
Millman
The Evolving Self
Kegan
Daring Greatly
Brown