Physical game plans are no longer sufficient for athletes to excel in their careers. A successful athlete is one who can tackle both physical as well as the mental challenges that are inevitable in sports. Just as you have a plan to attack your opponent or the task physically or strategically, you must also have a mental game plan that is as good as your physical game plan. In this blog post, we offer tips on how to create a robust mental game plan that will help you tackle mental obstacles with ease.

Last month was about defining success. This month is about failing into success. No, that wasn’t a typo. I really mean failing. Success, reaching new heights and achieving new goals, is absolutely the byproduct of failing. Unfortunately, as you start to get good at what you do, you have a tendency to forget that.

Success. The one constant that all athletes are after. Ironically, even though it is constant, it is never quite the same for each athlete. And I bet you’ve been defining it wrong all along…

While not all athletes like math, there is often a lot of mathematical analysis (aka STATS) that surround sport. Every sport has at least some component of statistics, even if it is simply a win percentage. This led me to create my own sport psychology math equations.

Progress > Perfection. Process > Outcome. Recovery > Failure.

Most athletes want to train and compete at their best ALL of the time. Playing at your best always feels fantastic and it’s why you show up. Those days that are subpar in your performance are no fun and often are insanely frustrating. To help you with managing your emotions related to those poor days, you need to understand the Law of Thirds. The Law of Thirds breaks down your time spent in sport, both training and competing, into thirds. Each third is vital and all are necessary to create a complete sporting career.

Performance and improvement can sometimes feel like a linear process. You put in the time and effort consistently as a means to get closer to achieving your goals. It can be easy to get caught up demanding greatness from yourself based on the performance you last had. However, this dynamic can often hinder, instead of enhance, your performance. You are not as good or bad as our last game or training session. You operate within a range of performance.