You have two choices to get from where you are now to where you want to be. 1) Keep going in the same direction. OR 2) Change directions. If you decide to keep going in the same direction, then you must believe your current process is working. Your current process has either already brought you […]
Persistence in the absence of pain is nothing special. Almost anyone can be persistent when the pain of failure, fatigue, boredom, fear, or trauma is not a factor. Persistence is simply the act of pursuing a course of action with the same energy and consistency. If the course of action you’re pursuing only produces rosy […]
It’s quite common for athletes to talk to themselves. Mental skill coaches call this “self-talk”. All athletes use self-talk, but some use it in a way that helps them, and others use it in a way that hurts them. When an athlete uses self-talk to hurt themselves, they talk to themselves with language that drives […]