Turning Athletic Failure Into Growth and Learning How do you respond to losing or failure? What sort of emotions does failure evoke within you? How have you recovered from failure in the past? Your perspective on failure affects your thoughts and impacts your emotion. These three components, perspective, thoughts and emotions, will determine how you […]
How Athletes Can Balance Sports and Life
Are You a 24/7 Athlete? Be a Balanced Athlete “Train, Eat, Sleep, Repeat”… And if you’re a student, Study between. The phrase has been written on t-shirts, emblazoned on locker room walls and printed on posters. Many athletes are singularly focused on their sport more with the goal of reaching the pinnacle. The belief of […]
Improving Athletic Team Culture
How Team Culture Impacts Team Success What is the leadership like on your team? How is the culture within your team? Does the leader influence and support the culture? Leadership, or effective leadership can often be hard to find on a team. Many times, the best player on the team might be designated as leader […]
Developing Positive Practice Habits
How to Have Successful Practice Habits for Athletes “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” This quote is profound and is particularly true for athletes. Yet so many athletes engage in bad practice habits. In baseball, many hitters will not run out ground balls… In gymnastics, many […]