The four biggest challenges for anyone who is struggling to get better are motivation, confidence, pressure, and mental toughness. Motivation: You know what you need to do to get better, but don’t have the motivation to change your behaviors to align with this. Confidence: You know what you need to do to get better, but […]
It’s quite common for athletes to talk to themselves. Mental skill coaches call this “self-talk”. 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 […]
“Pressure is a privilege.” That four-word quote that titles Billie Jean King’s book encapsulates the #1 mental skill athletes need to perform better under pressure. It’s also the #1 mental skill athletes need to perform better when they are dealing with training pain, fear, fatigue, or boredom. The name of this mental skill is reframing. […]