I have a simple warning for parents and coaches of athletes who struggle with mental toughness or confidence problems. Just like most problems, mental toughness and confidence problems don’t solve themselves. In fact, they get worse with time. If you see a young athlete in middle school having problems with mental toughness or confidence, it’s […]
Confidence coaching is all about improving an athlete’s ability to perform when it counts. In my experience I have found that confidence is the #1 reason why an athlete or an athlete’s parent seeks out private coaching. Athletes can only get so much help with their confidence in a group coaching session with a generic […]
Peak performance comes from balancing challenge and skill. In the classic mindset book Flow in Sports: The keys to optimal experiences and performances, the research of the authors Susan Jackson and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi shows that the challenge-skill balance is one of 9 dimensions an athlete needs for flow in sports. In addition, Jackson and Csikszentmihalyi […]