Seven Fs for Athletic Success
Whether you’re just beginning, in the middle of, or just ending your sport’s season. Whether you’re having a great season and want it to continue, having an okay season and want to improve on it, or it has been a disappointing season so far and want to turn it around. Whatever your sports situation, you […]
Read MoreWhat Athletes Can Learn from George Costanza
For you to become the best athlete you can be, you have to be darned serious about their sport. You must be motivated, intense, focused, and give your best effort every time you train and compete. You have to put in the time in the gym, watch a lot of video, keep your equipment in […]
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The Taylors are Officially a Ski Racing Family (at Least for Now)
In 2011, when my daughters were five and three, we joined the Sugar Bowl Ski Team. At that time, I wrote an article titled, “Momma, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be…Ski Racers.” In the article, as our family was just entering the ski racing world, I expressed considerable ambivalence about whether I wanted […]
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Six Attitudes Parents Should Instill in Their Athletes
When most people in the sports world think of sport psychology, they think of mental training, that is, helping athletes prepare mentally to perform their best when it matters most. Mental muscles that help athletes strengthen include motivation, confidence, intensity, and focus. And mental tools I help athletes to put in their mental toolboxes include […]
Read MoreWhat’s Right about Youth Sports in America
I’ve been involved in youth sports for—Yikes!—more than 50 years. As a child, I played Little League baseball and soccer, but my main sport was alpine ski racing (I know, not your typical suburban sport). Since then, I’ve been actively involved in youth sports as a mental coach. In these capacities, it seems as if […]
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25% Holiday Discount on Online Courses
Okay, my blog does sell some stuff, but I hope everyone sees that my online courses are a great way for athletes, coaches, and parents to do what they do better at an affordable price. With that said, the holidays are upon us and what better gift to give that special someone than the gift […]
Read MoreTaylor Interview on Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk Radio
I was recently interviewed about the psychology of sports injury on Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk Radio. My interview begins at 26:10 of the recording.
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A Must-have Holiday Gift for Every Cyclist
During the course of my ten years of blogging, I’ve been contacted frequently by sports and tech companies wanting me to endorse their products to my blogging and social media audiences. So far, I’ve turned down all offers, despite some very attractive inducements, except one, the Razor-Tune,an exceptional electric ski sharpening device that has made my […]
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Hey Sport Coaches, Are You Part of the Problem or Solution?
My last post, Sport Parents, We Have a Problem, clearly touched a nerve in the sport parent community with more than 12,000 views on Facebook alone, generating dozens of comments and my receiving many emails and messages in respond. The responses were 99.9% supportive of my perspective (one fellow spoke out quite vociferously against it). […]
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Sports Parents, We Have a Problem
Like I said, sports parents, we have a problem. Want to know the problem? Well, look in the mirror. I don’t mean to insult you by indicting you as being the problem as an individual parent. I don’t know you or how you are with your children in their sports lives. I’m talking about the […]
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