Sports Psychology Coaching

Learn a common pattern that happens when athletes play well and how this can actually lead to more stress and fear in your game. Most importantly, learn how you can avoid this as an athlete.  Work with me! 🧠 1-1 Mental Performance Coaching for Athletes: https://www.successstartswithin.com/mental-performance-coaching/ 👉 Confident Competitor Academy: Go from playing with fear & anxiety to play...

Peak performance in sports refers to you playing up to your full potential. You performing the best that you can on any given day. As an athlete, reaching peak performance is a lofty goal. It’s one all athletes strive for, but few actually attain. So how can you get to the point where you’ve reached peak performance within your sport? There is a strategy you can follow that will help you get the b...

If you struggle to play your best during competition, this could be a sign you are stuck in a training mindset. In this video, I’m going to uncover what it means to be stuck in a training mindset, and then walk you through how you can adopt a performance mindset for games. Work with me! 🧠 1-1 Mental Performance Coaching for Athletes: https://www.successstartswithin.com/mental-performance-coaching...

Learn how you can stop negative thinking during games, and why your thoughts are one of the most important elements of you performing your best. Work with me! 🧠 1-1 Mental Performance Coaching for Athletes: https://www.successstartswithin.com/mental-performance-coaching/ 👉 Confident Competitor Academy: Go from playing with fear & anxiety to playing with confidence in just 6 weeks! 👉 Mentall...

All athletes want to be mentally tough. Not only do they want to be mentally tough, but all athletes need to be mentally tough. Especially high school athletes. In high school, competition becomes strong. Those who will make it to the next level begin to separate themselves from their peers. A key differentiator between high school athletes who excel vs those who perform below their potential is t...

Anxiety & Fear Course Getting benched is one of the greatest fears athletes experience. No athlete wants to get benched. Taken out of the game and losing their starting position. It’s awful. It’s embarrassing. But it’s something many athletes will face at one point or another in their career. Which is why, knowing how to respond to getting benched and handling it in a productive way is so impo...

Are you playing it safe during games due to fear? Learn what you can do to stop playing it safe and allow yourself to play with full confidence during games. Work with me! 🧠 1-1 Mental Performance Coaching for Athletes: https://www.successstartswithin.com/mental-performance-coaching/ 👉 Confident Competitor Academy: Go from playing with fear & anxiety to playing with confidence in just 6 week...

Goal setting for athletes is all about direction, focus, and intention. Depending on the goal you set, you can provide yourself with long-term direction, or you could provide yourself with clear intention for the day. No matter what type of goal you set as an athlete, though, goals are at the core of you becoming the best player you can be. But not all goals are helpful. In fact, some forms of goa...

Are you holding yourself back and playing it too safe during games? Are you scared to make mistakes? When you play to avoid mistakes, you will find yourself playing less aggressively during games. To help, there is a simple mindset shift you can make! Work with me! 🧠 1-1 Mental Performance Coaching for Athletes: https://www.successstartswithin.com/mental-performance-coaching/ 👉 Confident Competi...

Do you get stressed during practice? Are you anxious about how you will perform in order to get more playing time or to try and not lose your starting spot? Getting stressed during practice will do nothing but hold you back. In this episode, you will learn two tips to help manage your stress and anxiety during practices. Work with me! 🧠 1-1 Mental Performance Coaching for Athletes: https://www.su...

What does it mean to unlock your full athletic potential? Does it mean you’ve peaked? You’ve reached the top of the mountain and there’s no more for you to climb? Maybe. But that is a challenge in and of itself, because how do we know if you’ve peaked? Isn’t there always a little more you can achieve? A little stronger you can become or a little faster you can get? It’s hard to say you’ve reached...

Learn why action is the secret to building confidence as an athlete. And how, by focusing on action, you can become more confident during games. Work with me! 🧠 1-1 Mental Performance Coaching for Athletes: https://www.successstartswithin.com/mental-performance-coaching/ 👉 Confident Competitor Academy: Go from playing with fear & anxiety to playing with confidence in just 6 weeks! 👉 Mentall...

In this episode, you will learn why you need to be more deliberate with your thinking as an athlete. And how you can use your thoughts to increase your performance. Work with me! 🧠 1-1 Mental Performance Coaching for Athletes: https://www.successstartswithin.com/mental-performance-coaching/ 👉 Confident Competitor Academy: Go from playing with fear & anxiety to playing with confidence in just...

Do you ever have a negative attitude before a game starts? Learn three tips you can use to manage a negative attitude before a game to keep it from turning into a bad performance. Work with me! 🧠 1-1 Mental Performance Coaching for Athletes: https://www.successstartswithin.com/mental-performance-coaching/ 👉 Confident Competitor Academy: Go from playing with fear & anxiety to playing with con...

The types of goals you set pregame will determine the way you perform. You want to be sure you are setting goals that give you the best chance of success, instead of having the goals you set lead to underperforming. Work with me! 🧠 1-1 Mental Performance Coaching for Athletes: https://www.successstartswithin.com/mental-performance-coaching/ 👉 Confident Competitor Academy: Go from playing with fe...

The way you interact with mistakes will make or break your performance. If you see mistakes as purely negative, this will lead to anxiety and fear while you play. In this episode, you will learn the three different ways you need to see mistakes as an athlete to increase your performance and allow yourself to play freely! Work with me! 🧠 1-1 Mental Performance Coaching for Athletes: https://www.su...

No matter how talented an athlete is, if they have a negative mindset, they will never perform up to their full potential. All that talent and skill will go to waste. Mindset is what allows talent to shine. Mindset is the true determining factor between good athletes and the truly great ones. Get your mindset right, and there’s no telling what you can accomplish within your sport. Work with me! 🧠...

Every athlete wants to be a clutch player. Especially if you’ve experienced choking before. In this episode, you will learn why athletes choke, and three tips you can use to stop choking during competition. Work with me! 🧠 1-1 Mental Performance Coaching for Athletes: https://www.successstartswithin.com/mental-performance-coaching/ 👉 Confident Competitor Academy: Go from playing with fear &...

Are you struggling with fear and anxiety during games? Does this hold you back and do you continually leave games feeling disappointed and like you held yourself back? It's time to take control of your anxiety and fear! 6-Weeks to Conquer Anxiety & Fear Program Work with me! 🧠 1-1 Mental Performance Coaching for Athletes: https://www.successstartswithin.com/mental-performance-coaching/...

What if I make a mistake? What if coach benches me? What if my stats go down?....any of those sound familiar?  What if thoughts lead to anxiety and fear while you play and can be a key reason why you underperform. In this episode, you will learn a simple strategy to manage these what if thoughts before and during games. Work with me! 🧠 1-1 Mental Performance Coaching for Athletes: https://www.suc...

Learn what it means to be process focused as an athlete, and how focusing on the process will improve your performance on the field or court. Work with me! 🧠 1-1 Mental Performance Coaching for Athletes: https://www.successstartswithin.com/mental-performance-coaching/ 👉 Confident Competitor Academy: Go from playing with fear & anxiety to playing with confidence in just 6 weeks! 👉 Mentally T...

How do you handle nerves at the start of a game? In this episode, mental performance coach Eli Straw explains a simple strategy you can use to manage your nerves at the beginning of a game.  Work with me! 🧠 1-1 Mental Performance Coaching for Athletes: https://www.successstartswithin.com/mental-performance-coaching/ 👉 Confident Competitor Academy: Go from playing with fear & anxiety to playi...

Mental performance coach Eli Straw explains how shifting the way you see mistakes will powerfully reduce the amount of fear you play with. Use the three mindset shifts outlined in the episode to stop playing with so much fear of failure! Work with me! 🧠 1-1 Mental Performance Coaching for Athletes: https://www.successstartswithin.com/mental-performance-coaching/ 👉 Confident Competitor Academy: G...

If you are the coach or parent of a young athlete, learn how to recognize and manage fear of failure in your youth athlete. Work with me! 🧠 1-1 Mental Performance Coaching for Athletes: https://www.successstartswithin.com/mental-performance-coaching/ 👉 Confident Competitor Academy: Go from playing with fear & anxiety to playing with confidence in just 6 weeks! 👉 Mentally Tough Kid Course (f...

In this episode, we'll go over how sports anxiety impacts game day performance, how it holds you back and leads to underperforming, and what you can do to manage your anxiety as an athlete. Work with me! 🧠 1-1 Mental Performance Coaching for Athletes: https://www.successstartswithin.com/mental-performance-coaching/ 👉 Confident Competitor Academy: Go from playing with fear & anxiety to p...