Mental Focus
Excellence Mindset vs. Perfectionist Mindset: What’s Best For Athletes?
A lot of these messages are more powerful than their surface value, and if you “dig in” to how it fits your current situation, you can have some very insightful moments.
Target your Standards, not your Social Status
Although we are all guilty of lacking focus on occasion, all too often student-athletes are more focused on social stature than actually raising the standard of who they want to [...]
5 Tips to Become a Morning Workout Person
Finding the motivation to workout at any time in the day can be tough, but it can be especially terrible to do a morning workout when so many people...
Avoid the Mousetrap: How Athletes Can Manage Their Fear of Failure
There exists a crucial difference between fear and danger. Danger is real. Fear is created. Because we create many of our own fears, the good news is that we can [...]
8 Ways to Stay Focused During Your Swim Season
The swimmer's season is no joke. For athletes who aspire to compete at the junior national and national levels the season starts in September and...
Rory McIlroy: ‘I Believe Every Person Should Have a Mantra’
Rory McIlroy is no stranger to success. The 30-year-old from Northern Ireland has four Major championship victories to his name, along with four Ryder Cup wins and a pair of [...]
How Sports Psychology Helped Jessica Eye Get Her Swag Back
Pro fighters may seem like some of the cockiest people on the planet, given the arrogant acts many put on at press conferences, or the sheer amount of courage it [...]
Should American High Schools Have Nap Time?
Sleep is essential to maximizing your potential as a human. More sleep makes us smarter, more motivated, more charismatic, stronger, faster, more coordinated, more resilient—you name a desirable trait in [...]
What Every Athlete Can Learn From Max Homa’s First PGA Tour Victory
Max Homa’s win at the 2019 Wells Fargo Championship represents one of the most remarkable turnarounds in golf history. He pocketed $1.42 million for his victory, and while that’s an [...]
Why Every Student-Athlete Should Get a Part-Time Job
Chris Paul pumped gas. David Johnson cleaned dorm rooms. J.J. Watt delivered pizzas. Many of the world's best athletes worked some very mundane jobs at one point or another. And [...]