Counterpoint: Achieving Your Goals Will Not Change Your Life

Take a moment and think about the most important goal you want to achieve. Now, imagine if you could press a button and achieve that goal instantaneously. This is the equivalent of winning the lottery. This would change your day, your week, your month, and your year, but this would not change your life.  Multiple […]

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Teach Struggling Athletes the Inverse of the Process Mindset

Yesterday I wrote about the behaviors of an athlete with a process mindset. Overall, the point of that article was first to remind athletes why a process outcome is better than an outcome mindset. Then to reiterate why mindset is not something you speak into existence, it’s something you live out through your behaviors. That […]

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The Key to Self-Motivation: Self-Awareness About What Gives You Energy

As famed psychologist and author Edward Deci’s research suggest, “motivation is the energy for action“. With this in mind, the key to self-motivation is therefore the ability to recognize what gives you energy. Desiring something but not having the energy to do it is a common problem for both kids and adults. It’s easy to […]

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