Apr 19
Is this your first time? Welcome to The Athlete within You blog site. Is this your first time? I trust it won’t be your last and you will find these posts informative, entertaining at times and useful to you as you train for sports and life. I hope that as a first time of recent …
Apr 15
Sports Metaphors, Language of Business Sports metaphors infuse the language of business. I bring this up because of some recent meetings with corporations. My approach to these corporations has been that mental training will help their employees (athletes) perform at a higher level. The reply was that while they believed in the concept, there doubt was …
Mar 17
Mental Training to get past shame in sports A while back I wrote a post on shame. It is one of the areas that we rarely address in sports. It got a lot of hits back when I originally posted it. It was uploaded to a site in the UK this month for a new audience …
Mar 03
The Mental Game Since 1983 my practice has been called Sport Psychology Consultants. Not very creative, but back then it seemed to fit what I wanted to do. In 2009 when I transitioned into the current century and built a website, my practice became, Sport Psychology Consultants @The Mental Game.com For the last few weeks …
Feb 25
Working Conflict I have a new friend. We met on LinkedIn. He does Meta-analysis in sport. I’ve not really delved into what that means. He was born in the old Soviet Union and now resides in Israel. In one of our first conversations he said he knew many sports psychologists both in his days in …
Feb 16
Mental Training is not a luxury, it is a necessity! When I wrote my last post on mental training being The Final Frontier my intention was to close with this statement. “Mental Training is not a luxury, it is a necessity!” Somehow it got lost in my enthusiasm. Or maybe it was in looking for a suitable picture from Star …
Feb 08
The Final Frontier: Mental Training I was looking through some old pictures and articles from over twenty-five years ago. I don’t have a lot of the old things due in part to a burst pipe in the basement, but I have a few things. I pulled out this old and not very well written article I …
Feb 05
Thoughts from the Darkness of Super Bowl 47 Thoughts on what mental lessons did we learn from Super Bowl 47 I would be remiss if I if I didn’t follow last weeks post with some thoughts and observations from Super Bowl 47. With all the hype one team came out ready to play. You are …
Feb 01
What lessons can and should we learn from the two-week build up for the Super Bowl? I can think of a few Super Bowl lessons and I’m sure others can add some things too. This of course comes up each year at the Super Bowl and for the most part it is the same each year. There …
Jan 24
It’s an Extraordinary Life Carpe Diem – for an Extraordinary Life I watched one of my favorite movies the other day, The Dead Poets Society with Robin Williams in the lead role. A teacher who inspired his students to think for themselves and live their lives to the fullest. Working with athletes on the mental game …
