Mental skills training primarily focuses on teaching the skills to increase self-awareness, focus, confidence, and mental toughness. To teach the various mental skills to support each of these areas, clients must commit to an iterative process of assessment, measurement, goal setting, progression planning, and follow-through. This iterative process of mental skills training is uncomfortable by […]
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One of my primary sources of research for mental toughness comes from sport psychologists Sheldon Hanton, Graham Jones, and Declan Connaughton. The title of their research is “A Framework of Mental Toughness in the World’s Best Performers“. The authors do an excellent job putting rigor around the definition of mental toughness. Their analysis concludes that […]
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What percentage of sports is mental? This is the age-old question in all of sports. It doesn’t matter if the sport is wrestling, football, soccer, baseball, basketball, tennis, golf or one of the other 99 worldwide sports. There is only one right answer to this question. However, if you ask any coach what percentage of […]