Tag: Mental Habits

Vision Combined With Technique Is The Great Equalizer

Milos Teodosic has been dropping these kinds of dimes for years. What he has improved, and what isn’t readily available to every player, is how he passes (e.g. underhand scoop pass, wide body hook-wrap-pass-with-spinology, etc). Those are “next level,” yet there’s one thing that he does consistently that is available to *all* players: what he …

Practice Making Errors

I promised I’d bring you useful ideas from teacher-coaches regardless of their sport (or non-sport) of choice. Well, here’s an outside-the-box idea that I’m borrowing from tennis. More DIY videos at 5min.com How do you help your players adapt to errors? Give me some feedback in the comments section. Curious to know what things other …

Avoid Mental Mistakes: Get Rid of These Two Sentences

Mental mistakes. If you want to minimize them, then take these two phrases out of your vocab: IT’s – “I’m tired” DFLI’s – “I don’t feel like it.” If you do, I’d argue that you will have essentially removed over 50% of the negative mental habits you’ll face as a high performance athlete. Those two …

Here’s How To Approah Failure

Those driven toward excellence and winning, should never view failure as something that saps your energy, enthusiasm and vitality. Instead, it provides an opportunity to respond famously by animating, increasing your focus, and viewing the experience itself as an opportunity to learn, develop and adapt. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying significant failures won’t …

How To Overcome Your 10 Most Feared Shots

For those who know me, you’d be *really* surprised to hear if I was espousing thoughts on the “game” of golf. (That’s right. I didn’t say sport!) Well, don’t worry. I’m not dropping any nuggets on golf. David Pelz is though. It’s probably more accurate to say that he gives some insightful thoughts to how …

Profile of a Champion: 8 Principles Of Successful Living

To achieve success and fulfillment in virtually any endeavour one wishes to undertake, there is a common set of conditions that must be met. Every great man and woman throughout the pages of history has been a living testament to the prerequisites of achievement, which I call the “Eight Principles of Successful Living.” PRINCIPLE #1: …