Dr. Jim Taylor’s Blog



Welcome to Dr. Jim Taylor’s blog! Its goal is to inspire, inform, and transform with ideas, perspectives, insights, and tools that can change your thinking, your performances, and your life.

1105, 2023

I Practice What I Preach: Let Your Mind Guide Your Training

As I wrote about in a previous article, the most common means of assessing how your training is going is [...]

505, 2023

Set S.M.A.R.T.E.R. Goals for the 2023-24 Ski Race Season

Goal setting is a simple and practical mental tool you can use to maintain a high level of motivation in [...]

205, 2023

I Practice What I Preach: 2023 USAT Multisport National Championships

As I noted in my last “I Practice What I Preach” post, I was feeling a fair amount of anxiety [...]

105, 2023

Mental Imagery is Your Most Powerful Ski Racing Mental Tool

Ski racing is one of the most difficult sports to master because it’s one of the few that you can’t [...]

2704, 2023

Now is the Time to Start Your Mental Training for Ski Racing

It happens every winter. In December, January, and February, I get calls from national team athletes and parents of young [...]

2404, 2023

2023-24 Ski Race Season Has Already Begun!

Yes, the 2022-23 race season is over and you are looking back at it with either pride or disappointment. Whichever [...]