How You Can Challenge Yourself To Feel More In Control
By working with David Charlton, you and your organisation will be better equipped to rise to modern day challenges and better informed to thrive on and off the pitch, course or court. Where he inspires individuals and teams to:
- Cope with pressure and challenges more effectively
- Maintain positive mental health
- Compete with confidence more often
- Manage your emotions better
- Improve your commitments levels
David is a Mental Toughness Practitioner, as well as a Health Care and Professions Council (HCPC) Registered Sport and Exercise Psychologist. He has successfully supported athletes, teams and organisations for over 10 years in order to ensure that they perform at their maximum more often.
He has a comprehensive knowledge around the development of Mental Toughness, a plastic personality trait, which determines or limits people to deal effectively with change, challenges and stressors. In today’s climate, during the Coronavirus pandemic this quality is becoming more and more valuable to individuals, teams and organisations.
In this week’s episode of the Demystifying Mental Toughness Podcast #274, we focus in on the control and challenge measures from Professor Peter Clough’s 4C’s model of Mental Toughness. David highlights how US tennis player Danielle Collins’ managed fans heckling at the Australian Open to aid her performance. Insightful guests, Sport Psychologists, World Champion Athletes and Olympians also offer tips: where they focus on self-care for perfectionists, emphasise why getting clarity on your “why” is important, stressing present-moment awareness and a lot more.
Key Learning Points:
- Incorporate self-care practices, such as taking breaks from screens, doing breathwork, or a gratitude practice to aid your emotional control.
- Danielle Collins showed a degree of emotional control and a sense of humour to turn negative fan comments into motivation, rather than letting them affect her performance.
- Many driven athletes can take things too seriously impacting their emotional control and ability to challenge themself.
- Play the observation game to improve your awareness of behaviours that you carry out, focusing on your reactions, inadvertently the outcome can then be improved performance.
- To help children in sort, parents should lead with love and care, avoiding pointing out flaws, focusing on positive reinforcement.
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Relevant Podcast Episodes To Help You Improve Your Control and Challenge Levels as Relayed in Episode 274
Ep172: Brandon Epstein – Working With Your Subconscious Mind To Achieve Better Results
Ep168: Andrew Simpson – How To Navigate Youth Sports So That Children Enjoy The Experience More
Ep162: Sun Sachs & Ed Gibbins: How to Find a Flow State to Improve Your Performance
Ep099: Trevor Jones – How to Deal with Overthinking on the Golf Course
Ep083: Billy Schwer – Life Lessons from a World Champion Boxer
Ep081: Stuart Wade – Mental Toughness in Combat Sports
Ep033: Aly Dixon – Mental Toughness Lessons from a World Champion
Ep013: Karl Morris – How to Stay Present like a Major Champion
Ep017: Gio Valiante – How to Play Fearless Golf
Other Valuable Resources To Help You Improve Your Control and Challenge Levels
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David Charlton
Global Sports Psychologist who is located near Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK and willing to travel Internationally. David also uses online video conferencing software (Zoom, Facetime, WhatsApp) on a regular basis and has clients who he has supported in USA, Canada, South America, UAE, Australian and New Zealand.
Managing Director – Inspiring Sporting Excellence and Founder of The Sports Psychology Hub. With over 10 years experience supporting athletes, coaches, parents and teams to achieve their goals, quickly.
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