On a day built around gratitude, I want to pause and say this clearly: I’m thankful for you. Every athlete, coach, student, parent and leader who follows these tips - THANK YOU! You challenge me in the best ways. Your commitment to growing your mental game continually pushes me to grow mine. Every week I’m challenged to get better… because to help you get better, I have to grow, stretch and get uncomfortable, too. It’s not a challenge anyone says out loud. It’s that unseen,

Mindset Made Simple Tip #279 - Watch or listen HERE. You’ve probably heard me say this before…or something like it: We don’t magically develop emotional control under pressure, just like our military does not learn new maneuvers in battle. They learn new things on our soil (mostly)…and we practice – or should practice - our mental performance tools, not when we are facing our biggest foe, but in the messy, boring everyday moments. We don’t wait until the seventh inning, down

Mindset Made Simple Tip #278 - Watch or listen HERE If you're anything like me, you've stared at your to-do list, noticed the clock, felt your heart speed up a little… and wondered how in the world you’re going to get everything done. You promise yourself you’ll “focus,” but two minutes later you’re thinking about a snack, an email you forgot to send and the fact that your shoes still aren’t tied. We all feel this. I’m living this BIG TIME right now. A LOT is going on in my

Mindset Made Simple Tip #277 - Watch or listen HERE. Last Friday was a thrill! We had the pleasure of sitting down with Dr. Sue Ziegler , my mentor and one of the most influential people in my life. Kortney and I interviewed her for an upcoming episode of Game Changers: Athlete Edition. It WAS AWESOME, inspiring and packed with simple, solid truths about performance. If you’ve ever heard me talk about mental training, you’ve heard me talk about Sue. She was the sports psychol

Mindset Made Simple Tip #276 - Watch or listen HERE. Yesterday morning didn’t go as planned. I took my dad to an appointment that was supposed to last two hours. Perfect. I had two hours of work to do while I waited, including a meeting and prep for a call with a team for early afternoon, then I’d head to a meeting with the Director of Oberlin’s Musical Theatre Department to set up work for next semester. Both things I was pumped about!! It was one of those rare mornings w

Mindset Made Simple Tip #275 - Watch or listen HERE Check out my son's new "Mindset Minute" series and share with young athletes you know who want to up their game! Last week, we talked about driving through the rain — leaning forward, squinting through the glare, and realizing that while we couldn’t see the whole road, we could still see enough to move forward safely. This week, I want to take that idea one step further. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month , and more t

Mindset Made Simple Tip #274 - Watch or listen HERE. Last night, I was driving home in the rain — the kind that makes you lean forward, squint and search for the defrost button. And every time headlights passed, oh boy! The lines on the road seemed faded. I wondered if my eyesight was fading too. Was it the glare off my progressive lenses or the windshield wipers not doing their job? Add a little fog, and everything looked uncertain. It was uncomfortable. I didn’t love it. An

Mindset Made Simple Tip #273 Watch or listen HERE. Last week, during a session with one of my college athletes, we talked about the power of emotional control, not just for performance, but for perception . Her coach had made a tough call: she was kept out of the lineup. When she asked why, the coach said something telling: “I didn’t think you were ready,” he said. “And I needed the other players to see that we don’t act that way when things don’t go our way.” In other wor

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Mindset Made Simple Tip #267: Watch or listen HERE. I’ll admit it. For years, I’ve resisted committing to a consistent breathwork...

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Mindset Made Simple Tip #265 - Watch or listen HERE. Check out the second half of our conversation with Josie Owen-Kren, Michigan...

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Mindset Made Simple Tip #261 Friday's episode is a good one. Check it out! Game Changers: Athlete Edition Podcast iHeartRadio...