If your kid is a mature teenager or young adult already in college, this will be really relevant to you. Have you ever wanted to know the secret formula to get a confident kid (person)? Are you ready to go way deep into the mind of an up-and-coming competitor? I’ve blogged about several basic... Read more

How to Get into the Flow State and How To Stop Sabotaging Your Performance Under Pressure   When athletes or performers are just about to do their thing under extreme pressure of having to execute their skills, a curious thing happens… A part of your mind tries to take over and guide... Read more

Today’s tip for dealing with pressure is so simple you can teach it to a 6 year old. And yet it is so powerful, it has the potential to diminish all feelings of pressure within seconds in a competition. It comes down to this one thing: How to Focus Under Pressure to Perform... Read more

In my last post, How to Overcome Negative Self Talk in Competition, talking about how to minimize negative effects, I refer to a pressure tip that says, pressure affects ALL athletes negatively, even world-class athletes.   It tenses you up and hurts your ability to think strategically. If you want to perform better,... Read more

How to Stop Negative Self Talk I can remember it like it was yesterday…   I’m 11 and in the car with my mom and my brother, who is a year younger. We are driving to our baseball game on a Saturday morning. My brother and I were on the same... Read more

One of the things that happens with athletes when under pressure situations, is that the mind starts racing…  Under Pressure Situations, your mind speeds up because it is doing it’s best to “think” of all the possibilities of how it can prevent the bad thing from happening.  That’s the pressure… trying to avoid... Read more

Want to Know a Shocking Fact About Confidence Building and How to Boost Your Confidence in Sports? Watch my video. I know exactly how an athlete feels when a coach says, “you need more confidence if you want to be a better player.” That’s why I want to address how to boost... Read more

Now that March Madness (including the Masters) are behind us and as the sports world’s attention shifts over to Baseball and Softball, I am going to make that my segue to talk about tackling the biggest problems of those two sports, Fear of Failure, by sharing 3 Mental Strategies To... Read more

Mental toughness trainer, Craig Sigl has another great tip on how to Handle Serious Pressure in sports for you and your young player — to help them play their absolute best come competition time. So let’s get right to it…. Mental Tip: Handle Serious Pressure What do famous clutch players like Tom Brady,... Read more

Kids today have it much tougher than we did. The pressures are far greater, everything moves so much faster, and there is no sign of it letting up. Fitting in, peer pressure, not wanting to disappoint coaches and teammates, and the whole cyber-bullying thing… I appreciate you for following my Level Up... Read more

Follow through and commitment? How about achieving their goals? In our ongoing dialogue about self-motivation, how do you motivate your kid to want to do what it takes to achieve their goals? It’s a big question, isn’t it? You can only remind them so many times before it sounds like... Read more

If you’re still with me in this ongoing conversation, you clearly connect with the messages I’ve been espousing, that young basketball players, like Tod, are carrying around mental/emotional baggage that interferes with ones ability to perform to your potential. Remember this equation:  Performance = Potential – Interference Let’s talk about some typical mental... Read more