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Goal Setting

'My idea of paradise is a straight line to a goal’- Friedrich Nietzsche Every successful person whether that be an artist, sports person or leader has set goals which have...

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Relaxation in sports

When gearing up for a big match, very few athletes actually take the time to sit back and take a breath. The simple acts of inhaling, exhaling and relaxing for...

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The importance of music to performance

How many of you have listened to music while you train? How many people do you see in the gym or running down the road with their earphones in? How...

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Sport Psychology in F1 – The difference between life and death

“The mind is everything” Sir Jackie Stewart admitted in a 2004 interview. "All the boys in Formula One today have gifts from God and there's 20 of them. Then there's the...

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Motivating players that are nervous or scared

How we try to motivate our players is often misunderstood, in particular prior to playing in a game. Most coaches spend years searching for an epic, hair-stand-on-the-back-of-your-neck style speech like...

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Overcoming fear in Sport: Creating a mastery environment

This article discusses the interventions that can be put in place to help performers to adopt a healthier attitude towards their sport. It follows on from a previous article ‘Motivation...

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What is mental toughness and why do you need it?

In today’s world, it is rare to see individuals competing for pure pleasure, relaxation and innocent recreation. Rare too is the phrase “it does not matter whether we win or...

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Shame – What We Won’t Talk About

I was invited to a conference on Behavioral Health and Addictive Disorders. I went to hear Harriet Lerner, Psychotherapist and Author of ten books. She was going to be speaking...

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Aytron Senna - Inside the Mind of a Champion

I was originally going to write a post just about the power of the placebo effect in sport after watching the film Senna. This led me to watch another documentary...

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Motivation and fear of failure

Motivation is often thought of as simply having the energy and enthusiasm to carry out a behaviour, task, or activity such as exercising and practicing. However motivation goes much deeper...

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Anxiety within sport

You would be hard pressed to find an athlete who doesn’t react in some way to imminent competition. This article focuses on the feelings of anxiety and stress that some...

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When was the last time you did a cartwheel?

If you take a look at children, they hop and skip and jump, they run and bounce and roll, they move freely with energy, enjoyment and enthusiasm. But as we...

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The need for change to enhance performance

It is natural that change is hard; it is human nature to struggle with change whether it is in jobs, personal relationships, moving etc. However, it could be argued that...

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Talent - The invisible phenomenon

Talent has been at the centre of much deliberation over the past few years, not only with research experts, but also with general consultants in the dynamic field of sport...

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Improve your pre-game mental preparation

In almost every sport the top level performers are all similar in their level of ability, for example they all have similar attributes of being strong, fast, skilful, and have...

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Practicing in the ‘Real World’ of sport psychology

Jones, Evans and Mullen (2007) recently suggested that texts which choose to adopt the perspective of trainee practitioners within sport psychology “have the potential to not only inform the supervision of trainee...

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Are winners born or made?

The above question has been posed countless times and explored in many ways since the advent of talent identification in professional sport (and other domains for that matter e.g. music)....

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Confidence in yourself, confidence in others

In my opinion the most important trait for a coach to understand is confidence. This includes both self confidence and the ability to help players find confidence within themselves. When...

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