10 January 2023 Developing The X-FACTOR To Transform Your Football Performances Do You Worry Too Much About What Others Think Of You? Social approval is a very common challenges for many football and soccer players especially young players and can worry their parents and coaches. For the football player who struggles with social approval they’ll …
02 September 2023 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge How to Enhance Your Focus in Sport to Perform More Consistently? In the previous Mental Edge, on 18 August, I highlighted a small modification to future Mental Edge’s, a reason for this change links to FOCUS, and me as a business owner practicing what I preach, …
Conversations with Kids – Week 18 For parents and guardians where we give you prompts so that you can have more meaningful conversations with your children to help them build key characteristics such as mental toughness, resilience, confidence, creativity, focus and so on. A Question for your Kids What Is It Like In A Bubble? …
Football Psychology Tips: Where Do You Place Your Attention? Where you place your attention may impact whether you develop your Mental Toughness through your sport. Many footballers can get caught out focusing too much on future ambitions such as winning a trophy or the league. The same is true when it comes to focusing on …
Football Psychology Tips: Why Football Can Improve The Mental Toughness Of Your Children Being part of youth football is fraught with challenges As a football parent do you ever take a step back and consider what practicing, training and playing football for a youngster actually does for them? It’s so easy to get caught up …
Golf Psychology Tips: Can You Be Guilty Of Being Too Judgemental On The Golf Course? Many golfers get caught up playing the blame game when competing A high percentage of golfers get caught up in judging themselves, their golf swing, their performances, their score, other people or situations. And does this help them shoot the …
Motor Sports Psychology Tips: 3 Pointers If You Focus On Your Rivals Excessively Focusing on your main rivals too much often equals poor race results Knowing who the best racers and riders and their strengths and weaknesses are, is hugely important so that you know what to expect in races. However, placing too much attention …
Motor Sports Psychology Tips: How to Move on From Mistakes Quickly in Motorsport Do you struggle mentally after making mistakes? Motor racing is a sport which is hugely demanding mentally, with lots of information coming at you from all angles. As a result it’s so easy to make mistakes on the track. Mistakes are a …
Youth Sports Psychology Tips: How do I Help my Child to Focus in Sports? Concentration can be very difficult for many children “Come on son, concentrate”, “The game is passing you by”, “What are you doing?” are phrases used by sport parents and coaches frequently. How often do you here this or something similar? Often!! …
Sports Psychology Tips: Why You Should Meditate To Improve Your Sport Performance? Often we can get caught up in judging ourselves, other people or situations Are you guilty of being too judgmental? When considering how and when we form judgements some people do this more than others and often without realising. For example, in life …