Risk Taking is an Important Mental Skill Coaches Forget to Teach

Risk taking is a concept many people misunderstand. By and large, most people automatically assume that taking risks is a negative behavior. However, elite coaches and athletes know better. If you ask any elite level coach or athlete what it takes to break out, their answer will almost always include the ability to take calculated […]

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The Benefit of Knowing How You Cope with Stress

Knowing how you best cope with stress is an important part of being self-aware, and as a result an important part of your emotional intelligence. Stress can either be motivating or demotivating depending on the coping mechanism you use to deal with it. Therefore, choosing to be oblivious to your default coping mechanism instead of […]

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The Question You Must Answer When You Aren’t Making Enough Progress

Once you put a significant amount of effort into reaching a goal and you recognize you aren’t making enough progress, you must answer this one question before you do anything else. Is there a weakness in my blind spot that I’m either ignoring or taking for granted? Chances are the answer to this question is […]

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