Sports performance mindset and mental skills blog

Confidence is something you want, you know it helps you be at your best, and you know when it is gone sometimes it is hard to find. Often times athletes look for confidence in their results, waiting for things to turn around to then feel confident. When this is the case, you are always chasing, needing that next good result, and once it is done, you look for the next one. What happens if you could be confident in yourself, no matter what is happening in your external world? O

Mental conditioning training works to help individuals to develop a way of doing things (positive rituals) that aligns with their goals so they can perform at a high level. Everyone knows that athletes can be superstitious, and while superstitions and rituals can at times look very similar the underlying mechanism and process behind them are very different. Superstitions give your power to something outside of yourself. When I was a kid I would not re-tape my stick until I st