Resilience is a muscle. So, just like any other muscle, you don’t know how weak it is until you must lift something heavy. In the case of resilience, it might not always be clear that you’re being weak. However, the longer you wait to identify that you are lacking in resilience when facing adversity, the […]
All athletes talk to themselves. Sports psychologist call this “self-talk”. Some athletes use self-talk in a way that helps them, which is positive self-talk. Others use it in a way that hurts them, which is negative self-talk. In the bigger scheme of things, it may appear that this idea of talking to oneself is quite […]
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 […]