Seeds for giant timber bamboo are planted deep in the soil. After one year of watering, the bamboo has grown…not at all. After two, and even three years, the bamboo has still yet to break through the soil.
But sometime in the fourth year, after many months of faithful watering, the bamboo shoots up and can grow up to 90 feet in 60 days!
How many things in sport (and in life) are just like this? We invest our time, our energy, our effort – only to be left wondering if it was all worth it. What we so often fail to understand is that meaningful success comes from hard work applied long before results are seen.
Read moreWhen I tell people that I am a mental performance coach, there are a variety of responses. But there are almost always questions about what it means and what exactly I do. So hopefully this brief FAQ offers some clarity as well as a deeper understanding of how working with me can be helpful to a variety of people.
1. What is sport psychology and how can it help me?
Sport psychology is quite simply the study of how the mind affects performance in sports, and more importantly how athletes and performers can improve performance through the development of mental skills. If you have ever wondered why your performance in games/tournaments/races doesn’t match your performance in training and practice, then you understand how crucial this is.
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