How to Use Mental Skills When Everyone Has Elite Physical Skills

At the top level of any sport, all the average athletes have elite physical skills.  It’s at this point when elite physical skills become the norm, not the exception. So, what then differentiates a field of athletes who are all big, fast, and strong? Could it be luck? History would say no. There is a reason […]

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What to Do When You Lack Confidence Due to Things You Don’t Control

Yesterday I made the case that you have no control over the confidence you have right now in this moment, but you do have control of your confidence in the future. However, there is a caveat to controlling your future confidence I left out of yesterday’s article. It’s much easier to control your future confidence […]

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Negative Self-Talk and Negative Outcomes a Chicken and Egg Problem with a Solution

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 […]

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