Losing like a winner is all about your mindset. After a loss do you have an impulsive or strategic mindset? An impulsive mindset is one that can’t resist the temptation to select the first behavior that comes to mind. Moreover, an impulsive mindset will cause you to choose past behaviors even when better new behaviors […]
Goal orientation is a mindset. Moreover, you can either be tasks oriented or ego oriented. Research shows that it’s better to orient your mindset around tasks than your ego. The main reason why is that you can control your execution of a task, but you can’t control outcomes that build your ego. So, having a […]
All athletes use self-talk, but some use it in a way that helps them, and others use it in a way that hurts them. When an athlete uses self-talk to hurt themselves, they talk to themselves with language that drives pessimism and fear. This is negative self-talk. Negative self-talk is always bad. While it may […]