Latest News: Taylor Blog Post gets HuffingtonPost.com Headline
My latest blog post, Motivation: The Drive to Change, received “headline love” on HuffingtonPost.com’s Mindful Living page.
Read MorePersonal Growth: “Know Thyself” is the First Step to Life Change
The first step in making meaningful changes in your life involves gaining a better understanding of yourself in essential areas that impact your life. This self-knowledge can provide you with direction as you try to maximize your efforts at change. Self-knowledge can also help you be more efficient and focused – and more effective – […]
Read MoreSki Racing: Get Fired Up in the Starting Gate
In my last article directed to racers, I offered you practical techniques for lowering your intensity when you get too worked before races. Though less common, low intensity and letdowns in intensity can also prevent you from skiing your best. A decrease in intensity causes all the things that enable you to ski with fast […]
Read MoreSki Racing: Psychology of Injury
I just returned from three days of work with the Osler Bluff Ski Club in Ontario. During my visit, I met three young athletes who had sustained serious injuries. One 12-year-old suffered tib-fib fractures and was going to be in a full-length cast for eight weeks. A 15-year-old who is one of Canada’s top young […]
Read MorePersonal Growth: Motivation: The Drive to Change
According to the research of Dr. Anders Ericsson, motivation is the most significant predictor of success. In simple terms, Dr. Ericsson found that experts in many walks of life, whether sport, music, chess, dance, or business, had put in the most hours at their craft. He coined the phrase, “It takes 10 years and 10,000 […]
Read MoreSki Racing: Is Skiing the Best Family Sport?
I’m up at Sugar Bowl with my wife and two daughters for our pre-Christmas vacation and our week has been both incredibly enjoyable and challenging in some ways. Perhaps because of the indescribable joy I experience skiing with my family, plus it being the holiday season and the end of another year, I’ve been waxing […]
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