Very dedicated, hard-working athletes who have fear of failure make the classic mistake of focusing too much on avoiding failure rather than striving for success. Your athletes either strive for success or try to avoid failure and mistakes. Athletes who are anxious when they perform or often worry
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Why Athletes Dwell on Mistakes
Mistakes or errors occur every day in sports and life, but many athletes sabotage their own performance because they 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.
Why
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Communication with Sports Kids
After a competition, parents too often launch into analyzing their kid’s performance--at a time when kids aren’t ready to listen. They also give too many tips related to practice. Kids don’t see their parents as experts, even when parents have valuable information to share.
Parents need the
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A Balanced Mindset for Performance
Two types of mindsets are important for your athletes' success. The practice mindset is characterized by high dedication, unwavering motivation, commitment to goals in sport, analytical behavior, improve technique, strive for perfection, the need to look good, and focus on future improvement.
On
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Self-Confidence Roller Coaster
Are you on the self-confidence roller coaster? Many athletes allow their confidence to be thrashed around by immediate results and circumstances. What do I mean by the confidence roller coaster? Athletes with fragile confidence lose it when they hit a bad shot, fail to make a play, or lose a
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Kids’ Self-Motivation in Sports
Parents should be concerned about their kids' motivation in sports. Motivation is one of the keys to success in any endeavor. Athletes can have all the physical talent in the world, but if they can’t act on it with enthusiasm, commitment, and dedication, they won’t realize their full
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Helping Athletes Trust in Themselves
When it's time to compete, you want your athletes to stop practicing their technique. All the training is complete. Competition is the time to put it to the test! They need to commit to simplifying their performance so they can perform functionally instead of perfectly. Help them put practice behind
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Champion Athletes Focus Under Pressure
“One of the biggest differences between the top players and the good players is when they are under the gun, they see and hear less than anyone else,” said Helen Alfredson, LPGA Tour star. The top athletes simply are less distracted when they *need to* hit a good a shot, get a critical first down,
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