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6 Ps for Sports Success

With Thanksgiving approaching, you’re either in your competitive season or preparing for it in the season and spring. Hopefully, you’ve spent the off season working out in the gym, putting time in on the field, court, course, track, hill, or whatever venue you train in for your sport, and hopefully working on your mental training […]

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Make Your Sports Goal Setting S.M.A.R.T.E.R.

Goal setting is a simple and practical mental tool you can use to maintain a high level of motivation in your sports participation. For some very elemental reason, people respond to goals in a very deep and personal way. The experience of setting a goal, working toward a goal, and achieving a goal has a […]

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Make Your Ski Racing Goal Setting S.M.A.R.T.E.R.

Goal setting is a simple and practical mental tool you can use to maintain a high level of motivation in your ski racing. For some very elemental reason, people respond to goals in a very deep and personal way. The experience of setting a goal, working toward a goal, and achieving a goal has a […]

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Vlog: Find Your Motivation Every Day in Your Sport

In my third of 12 vlog segments devoted to athletes and coaches, I show you the immense impact that motivation has on your athletic success. Motivation is the foundation of everything that you do in your athletic life because without it, you wouldn’t go to the gym in the early morning, you wouldn’t put in […]

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Vlog: Develop Emotional Mastery in Your Young Athletes

In this week’s vlog segment, I focus on how sport parents can help their young athletes to gain emotional mastery in their sports lives. As I’m sure you realize, emotions play an essential role in the lives of children both on and off the field. At practice and in competition, their ability to recognize and […]

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Vlog: Train Your Mind like You Train Your Body

In my second of 12 vlog segments devoted to athletes and coaches, I show you why and how you should treat mental training the same way you do your physical conditioning . I describe three aspects of your conditioning that make them effective and without those elements you wouldn’t be in the best condition you […]

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Four Online Courses for Athletes, Coaches, and Parents (Non-Ski Racing)

With the fall sports season upon us, now is a great time for athletes in all sports to get their minds in great shape, coaches to sharpen their skills, and parents to be the best sports parents they can be. Good news; I can help! I’m pleased to announce the launch of my updated and […]

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Results aren’t the Only Criterion of a Successful Sports Season

The end of a competitive season is, for every athlete, a time of reckoning in which you look back and evaluate what kind of season you had: one to be proud of or one to reflect back on with disappointment and perhaps regret. Not surprisingly, one of the primary criteria that athletes use to judge […]

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What Do Pink Elephants and Blue Hippos Have to Do with Sports Success?

I’m going to make a request of you: Don’t think about a pink elephant. What did you do? Well, you thought about a pink elephant, of course. Now I’m going to make a demand: DO NOT THINK ABOUT A PINK ELEPHANT, DO NOT THINK ABOUT A PINK ELEPHANT, DO NOT THINK ABOUT A PINK ELEPHANT!! […]

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Finish Your Sports Season Mentally Strong

For athletes in many winter sports, the competitive season is almost over. After many days of practice and competing, the end is in sight. At this late point in the season, you will have fallen into one of three camps as far as how your season has gone. First, you may be having a break-out […]

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