NBA Playoffs Teaches Athletes Lesson on Elevating from Good to Great

I teach my clients that playing sports is 100% mental. This doesn’t mean physical skills are not important. This just means that an athlete’s physical skills are only as good as their mental skills. So, if you take away any given mental skill from an athlete this will decrease that athlete’s ability to execute physical […]

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Counterpoint: It’s Harder to be Average than Great

There is a common mindset misalignment that makes people believe that it’s harder to do what it takes to be great than to do the bare minimum and be average. Unquestionably, no one wants or dreams of being average. Indeed, life forces average on people who aren’t willing to do what it takes to be […]

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Average Athletes Have No Excuse for Being Average Unless…

Sometimes it’s important to state the obvious. So here it is… Average athletes are average because they make average choices. By no means is stating this fact a unique insight. However, it is a necessary reality check. Everyone who plays a sport competitively dreams of being great. Most of those dreamers will only be average […]

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