How to Motivate Your Young Athlete or Student

How are you motivating your kids? My guess is if you’re reading this, you’re struggling with this very question. Why weren’t we taught about motivation in school? If you never learned where it comes from, how in the heck are you going to be able to properly teach your...

On the Road to Burnout? How Much Time Should You Devote to Practice?

To be good, you have to attend practice daily and set goals. To be great, you have to be dedicated in practice, function at high intensity levels, and put in quality of work. To be elite, you have to be fully attentive, pay close attention to every detail of your...

Learn One Thing That Can Help You Be Less Nervous & Reduce Procrastination

We don’t realize how much words impacts who we become. Think about it. Your language determines how you see yourself, which determines your confidence, which determines what you go after, which determines how successful you are. Yes, it’s that simple. I didn’t say it...

Do You Hate Performing or Speaking in Front of an Audience?

You and 200 million others. If we’re all afraid, why do we let the anticipation eat us up so bad? We  have potential for both rational or irrational thoughts. We basically have predispositions for self growth and happiness or self destruction, self blame,...

5 Tips to a Better Presentation: Gain the Extra Edge

Olympians, college teams, Dancing with the Stars, and youth sports are working with sport psychologists. The idea behind sport psychology is learning mental performance strategies to perform better. So while some athletes want to reduce anxiety before a big game,...

Mental Skills Need Work? Lose the Stigma, Gain the Advantage

Receiving help from a counselor or coach doesn’t have to be looked at negatively. Why are we so afraid to ask for help? We seek out nutritionists when we want to lose weight or fuel for competition. We hunt for strength coaches to build muscle and power to get an...

Developing Young Talent

The idea behind applied sport psychology is to provide athletes with tools, strategies, and techniques to better their performance. It’s common for athletes to spend most of their time on physical practice & be developed physically. When athletes make a decision...

What Makes Us Motivated?

We all have made ”to do” lists, set goals, have dreams, or have motives for the things we want to see happen. How come some accomplish more? What makes them tick? There are theories out there for why some make a plan to lose 20 lbs and do it and why others set a goal...