Episode #17: Train like You Compete of my Train Your Mind for Athletic Success podcast is the fourth of six in a series that examines the ways in which you can maximize your training efforts and the benefits that you gain from those efforts. This episode will the consider the conundrum of whether you should compete [...]
Episode #17: Motivating Your Young Athlete of my Raising Young Athletes podcast is the fourth of six episodes that explores the very direct impact that you have on your children in their athletic lives. You as parents have tremendous to motivate--and demotivate--your young athlete. Your investment in your children's athletic lives and how that investment [...]
The Saturday Evening Post published my latest column, 10 Mindblocks that Prevent You from Living the Life You Want. My column explores the causes of an unhealthy life path, what I call “mindblocks,” a portmanteau that plays off of the psychological nature of these issues and the term “roadblocks.” This column examines common mindblocks including being loved [...]
The Saturday Evening Post published my latest column, Finding Your Own Personal Greatness. This column explores what it takes to be the best you can be at something. Because true greatness is a statistical long shot, your goal should be to find your own personal greatness. I define that as fully realizing whatever ability you [...]
Episode #17: Overinvestment to Investment of my Crisis to Opportunity podcast is the first of four in a series examining how your investment in the crisis determines whether you respond positively or negatively to it. This episode explores the meaning of investment in a crisis and how it impacts your reactions to it. When I [...]
One of the most important ideas I emphasize in my work with racers is consistency. In fact, it’s consistency that makes the great racers, like Petra Vlhova and Alexis Pinturault, so great. Day in and day out, week in and week out, month in and month out, and year in and year out, they are [...]
Every recommendation that I have made in my sports articles is directed toward helping your young athletes develop a positive emotional response to their sports experiences. Their emotions in their sports lives impact both their enjoyment and performance in their sport. The ability of your children to have a positive emotional reaction begins with a [...]
Episode #16: Experimentation of my Train Your Mind for Athletic Success podcast is the third of six in a series that examines the ways in which you can maximize your training efforts and the benefits that you gain from those efforts. This episode will explore the essential value of experimentation in athlete development. Because of the [...]
Every recommendation that I have made in my ski racing articles is directed toward helping your young racers develop a positive emotional response to their ski racing experiences. Their emotions in their ski racing lives impact both their enjoyment and performance in our sport. The ability of your children to have a positive emotional reaction [...]
Episode #16: Guided Participation in Action of my Raising Young Athletes podcast is the third of six episodes that explores the very direct impact that you have on your children in their athletic lives. You can get your children off on the right foot in their sports participation by taking some active steps that will set [...]
