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Overcoming Your Mental Game Fears

April 9th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Recreation and Sports

Is your potential held back by fear? If you can’t break through your performance barriers and are spinning your wheels, it’s a good bet that you are limited by a wall of worry - your own fears.

Fear comes in many forms - fear of failure, fear of success, fear or embarrassment, and so on. Many of my students hit a wall of worry caused by these fears and many others.

More than any other fear, fear of failure limits athletes from performing their best and can cause athletes to give up their dreams in sports.

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Sports Psychology - Competitive Self-confidence Under Pressure

December 31st, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Education

Self-confidence is the number one mental skill that your young athlete must possess to be successful in sports and life! Self-doubt is the number one mental barrier that blocks athletes from that success.

Having high levels of confidence is so important that I spend most of my time teaching students how to develop and harnesses the power of confidence.

I recently received an email from a concerned sports parent about her son “folding” under the pressure of big games. She said, “In big games, he seems to lose confidence too easily and not perform well, but in practice looks like a million bucks.”

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