It’s not enough to know that you have fear of failure. What’s more important is to know what type of fear holds you back. Here are the top four fears for athletes and as you can see, fear of failure often is related to what you assume others think about you.
1. Fear of losing a match, game, or
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sport psychology tips
Confidence Coaching
As a coach, you must commit to working on confidence as much as helping your players improve their skills or learn a new technique. Most importantly, you want your players to have stable, enduring confidence when challenged by doubt, negative thinking, or lack of immediate success.
When your
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Why Sports Kids Lack Confidence
Most young athletes often lack confidence for three reasons: (1) They do not know how to improve--other than with more practice. This is very common for young athlete. (2) They have a fragile state of confidence; their confidence changes rapidly when they are not successful of lose. (3) They had a
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Practice Applying Mental Skills in Competition
Many athletes have trouble applying mental skill to competition because they do not practice these skills. When mental skills are well-learned, they can easily be applies to competition. It is important that you improve your mental skills in practice too.
Specificity training helps you practice
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Mental Game Skills for Sports and Life
We believe that when kids learn mental game skills in sports, they benefit in most other areas of their lives. That's a huge plus. What are the skills we're talking about and how can parents and coaches ensure kids acquire them? Sports Kids learn time-management and team-building skills and have
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Athletes Who Hold on to Mistakes
Mistakes occur every day in sports and life, but many athletes simply can't let go of past mistakes. Missing shots, double faulting, and losing an important game happen often in the sports world and become a thorn in many athlete's mind - in some cases for the remainder of the competition because
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Replace Expectations with Process Goals
Help your players replace expectations with simple tasks they can accomplish most often. These smaller goals, called mini-goals or process goals, such as to have a plan at the plate or watch the release point of the ball and recognize the type of pitch quickly, help athletes focus on execution
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Negative Labels Kids Adopt
When sports kids start calling themselves "losers," "chokers," "wimps" or other negative names, it's a bad sign. Young athletes who label themselves with these negative terms are hurting their confidence. They've got a little voice in their head that's constantly putting them down.
Too often,
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