The Two Reasons Why Goals Setting in Sports Works and Why it Matters

Over the last 35 years there have been more than 600 studies on goal setting in sports. In addition, out of all these studies more than 90% show that goal setting is an effective mental skill for improving an athlete’s performance. Because goal setting is so common, this may be slightly obvious. However, because it’s […]

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Three Negative Achievement Behaviors Caused by Ego Goal Orientation

Ego goal orientation is one of two ways to approach goals as defined in goal perspective theory. It’s when you focus on comparing yourself to others instead of focusing on your own personal improvement and learning. For example, measuring personal success against the accomplishments of peers or when your primary source of happiness comes from […]

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Meta Skills to Build Skills that Build Skills

As you may or may not know my background is in computer science. I have an undergrad degree in the subject and a master’s degree in software engineering. As a result, everything I do in my coaching practice is based on me developing my problem solving skills with this technical foundation. With that said, in […]

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