14 October 2023 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge How to Transfer Your Skills so That you Perform Under Pressure What are common challenges that you help children with? In March 2020, our lives changed a lot with the outbreak of COVID-19 and subsequent lockdowns. COVID-19 also changed our business remarkably, pre-COVID we were a …
30 September 2023 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge The Art of Honest Self-Reflection to Boost Sport Performance Are you kidding yourself? As an athlete it could be argued that in a competitive situation and in training your job is to give maximum effort so that you give yourself the best chance of performing to …
16 September 2023 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge How to Set Better Goals so That You Enjoy Your Sport More Are you setting the wrong goals? The majority of people that we support at Inspiring Sporting Excellence are highly motivated, goal driven athletes, coaches or sporting parents. Yet, something I note is that many …
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, …
18 August 2023 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge How to Improve the Coach-Athlete Relationship? Update on The Mental Edge from David I hope that you’re well and that you have had a good week. As a valued subscriber and reader of The Mental Edge, I’d like to let you know about small change to …
04 August 2023 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge 7 Problems Dysfunctional Teams Can Run Into In Sport Dysfunctional teamwork refers to a situation where a group of individuals (players and/or coaching/support staff) within a club or organisation fail to work effectively together. The end result often equals poor performances and problems in achieving common …
28 July 2023 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge 5 Benefits of Team Building Exercises in Sports How to create a team first mentality to improve results in sport. A team first mentality, could also be described a team-oriented mindset or team-centric approach, and refers to the belief and practice of prioritising the collective goals …
21 July 2023 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge How to Improve The Skills of Team Captains What you can learn from great captains? What makes a great captain? Who has been a great captain in their sports? We’ll all have different opinions, I’m sure. Three captains that stand out to me over the years …
14 July 2023 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge Do you leave leadership skills to chance? Do you leave leadership skills to chance? In a previous life before supporting athletes, parents, coaches and teams I worked in the travel industry, for the most part in corporate or business travel. In 2003, after being with a …
07 July 2023 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge 10 Ways to Take Responsibility and Keep Moving Forwards Do you have a “CAN DO” attitude? When we coach athletes, parent our kids or manage people you’d like to think that we have others best interests at heart. That we’d be looking to try and cultivate …