Think You Can Get a College Athletic Scholarship? Think Again
If you or your child dreams of a college athletic scholarship, you better think again. According to this article, the chances are exceedingly slim (see the chart with all of the collegiate sports). For the vast majority of young athletes, an athletic scholarship is a pipe dream. Now consider how many thousands of dollars parents […]
Read More3 Goals for Skiing Your Best on Race Day
Defining success in ski racing is a difficult task. When I ask most racers and coaches how they define success, it is usually in terms of results, whether place, points, rankings, or qualifying quotas. Though, admittedly, results are the ultimate determinant of success, I have found that a preoccupation with them can both interfere with achieving those results and can produce feelings of disappointment and frustration (or worse). One problem is that focusing on results can actually prevent you from getting the results you want for two reasons. First, if you’re focusing on results before a race, you’re not focusing on what you need to do to get those results. Second, focusing on results, specifically, the possibility of bad results, is what causes you to get nervous before races which will only hurt your skiing. Another problem with ski racing is that your efforts don’t always lead directly to the results you want because you can’t control everything in a race. In other words, “S&%# Happens” in ski racing that can derail your best efforts. To help demonstrate this point, let’s compare success and failure in our sport to success and failure in school. Let’s say you have an exam coming up. If you study hard and are well prepared, assuming the test is fair, the chances of your doing well are very high, say, over 95%. Why? Because there are few external variables that can prevent you from doing well.
Read More3 Essential Mindsets for Athletic Success
In this article, I’m going to talk about “mindset,” which I consider to be an essential contributor to athletic success and a mental area that has only come to light in my work with elite athletes during the past three years. This topic is also where professional and Olympic athletes offer wonderful examples in which […]
Read MoreTaylor Interviewed by WGN about Chicago Teams and Fans
I was interviewed recently by WGN Radio Chicago about the city’s pro sports teams and its fans. Address topics including leadership, injury, and the diehard nature of Cubs fans. Here’s the link.
Read MoreTesters Needed for New Stress-Reduction iPhone App
I’m the co-founder of Beyond, a tech start-up that is using wearable technology (e.g., smartwatches) and biometric data (e.g., heart rate) to recognize and reduce stress in real-time (meaning in the moment when you experience the stress). We’re in the Alpha testing phase of product development (meaning early stage) and are looking for people who […]
Read More6 Steps for Making Tough Business Decisions
Is there anything more important to the success of a company than decision making? And is there any other process that occurs so often in a company that is accomplished so haphazardly? The decisions that are made, from the boardroom and the corner office on down, dictate the direction that the company goes. Yet, decision […]
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