Most people focus so much on strategy and strategic thinking that tactics and tactical thinking is often an afterthought. While strategic thinking is important for success, tactical thinking is just as important. Unquestionably, a perfect strategy will fail if the person executing it has bad tactics. Unlike strategic skills which depend heavily on research, tactical […]
Goal setting is so common that most people take it for granted that it’s actually a mental skill that has generations of research behind it. Instead of using this research to identify what works and what doesn’t, people just wing it. As a result, many people set worthless goals that when achieved changes nothing meaningful […]
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 […]