To help athletes focus on the process, coaches must teach them that the path to success is to control the controllables and not to worry about things that are uncontrollable. Correspondingly, the process is controllable, and the outcome is uncontrollable. Underachievers are the ones who give control of their successes and failures to uncontrollable factors. […]
A self-fulfilling prophecy is the psychology of how group expectations become that group’s reality. In other words, when enough people expect something to happen their behavior changes in a way that makes it happen. Today, as I was glancing through my notes of the classic mindset book Mind Gym by Gary Mack, I was reminded […]
There are a lot of claims about the benefits of mindfulness in sports without hard evidence to back it up. So, I can understand why many coaches and athletes are skeptical about adding mindfulness training to their already busy practice schedules. However, I highly recommend coaches and athletes take note of recent research published in […]