The relevant question is not "Did you win?" but "Did you come up to your expectations?" The greater the prize in sport, the more emphasis there is on winning...

Charles Swindell writes, "The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me, is more important than the facts..."

Grasp an understanding how coaching stress leads to burnout. Recognize the signs and apply eight important tips to defeat it.

Centering is a refocusing technique that allows the athlete to recover composure and to redirect focus. It is promoted as a basic stress control technique.

Choking what is it? How is choking prevented? How can choking be overcome?

A look at what a coach needs to know about developing a mental skills program for your sport.

Higher pressure situations can cause a coach to change their coaching behavior effecting the performance of their athletes. Take a close look at the possible effects and solutions in dealing with this stress.

Before you can develop a championship team, you first need to develop a championship attitude with your athletes. Learn the four important points in developing that kind of attitude that wins!

In the course of coaching, distractions come from a variety of sources. If you want to lead, direct and make proper coaching decisions you must develop the critical skill of distraction control.

Very powerful thoughts, images and emotions are just like heavyweights. They require more energy and therefore are more stressful. With this understanding, how do you build mental and emotional weakness into strengths?

Athletes who are perfectionists often get stuck in so called practice mindset and find it is difficult to develop "game self-confidence." They are athletes who are more comfortable in practice than competition.

Emotions can run high in the heat of competiton. A coaches reaction after a mistake can affect their team. Here are a few tips for helping your athletes play on with confidence and composure.

Mental skills expert Beasey Hendrix explains why the mental side of sport is critical to successful athletic performance.

Morphing can do several things; it helps the athlete deal with pressure, gives the athlete the opportunity to try something new, it is a new mental game to play, and puts fun into training.

Three aspects that should be included in any pre-season training program are technical skill improvement/refinement, physical conditioning and mental practice.

How does a champion think? What makes them different from all of the rest?

Mood control is an important skill for the coach. A bad mood can snowball causing negative thinking, cause distractions and trigger the same in assistant coaches and in your athletes.

Anxiety is a natural part of performing, whether you're on the baseball diamond, giving a speech, or taking the SAT's. Even seasoned veterans get butterflies before big games. Where the problem begins is if you focus on the wrong things.

Throughout modern history, American athletes have provided some of the most memorable performances of the Olympic Games. As we watched these amazing performances we wondered what psychological characteristics allow these athletes to reach such success.

If there is one characteristic that separates the great athlete from others, it is the ability to handle their own negative feelings successfully. Performances rarely go as planned, because of this you must be ready to deal with the problems that occur in competition and in training.

Many athletes "talk to themselves" during competition. Many of these thoughts help performance, and others harm performance. One thing is for sure, successful athletes control their self-talk.

There is a secret to success with goal setting, here is the secret...sit in a quiet room with a yellow legal pad and a pen. Make a list of all your goals for this year. Now do this...

Stress can be a friend or a foe to the athlete. Too little stress and the athlete will be under-aroused, too much stress and the athlete is over-aroused. Either way performance will suffer.

Training Stress Syndrome affects people in all areas of life, not just those in sport! Learn how to recognize the signs so you can prevent the final result - BURNOUT!

Some athletes will suffer from a season ending or career ending injury. The athlete who suffers an injury typically will experience five reactions. It is important to understand that these five reactions are common among people who experience a sudden loss, whether it is a loss of a family member or from an injury.