“Mindset, our personal belief framework for how we make sense of the world around us, is responsible for much of our behavior. The actions we take accumulate over time, and result in crucial outcome differences. Through intentional development, we can look to evaluate, adjust, and refine our beliefs, and thus our mindset. Creating a platform from which we can pursue mastery.”
“Therefore, each athlete has individual opinions on what constitutes success and challenge, and will come to their own conclusions regarding what attributes are required for progressing their own abilities. Performance profiling is empowering, as it hands over agency of the evaluation process to the athletes themselves, and allows comparison between external views of their performance, and their individual assessment.”
“The opportunity we have to make a positive contribution to the mental health within our teams and organizations cannot be overlooked. Our success as coaches, leaders, and teammates should extend far beyond winning records, personal bests, and playoff runs. It should be measured by the support provided to, and well-being of, those to our locker room(s)”
“As coaches, leaders, or trainers; the actions we inspire from those around us form the basis of our effectiveness. This article looks to cast a spotlight on that puzzle that is motivation, discussing a framework to view human behavior within, and proposing strategies for the creation of internally motivated athletes.”
“Deliberate goal setting is the conscious setting and articulation of desires, standards, and actions. It requires vulnerability, critical thinking, and the ability to think BIG. It’s an area of performance psychology which manages to be simultaneously over-simplified and over-complicated, and as a result, is often not given the time and effort which it warrants.”
