Embrace Your Brilliance: A Journey of Self-Love
In today’s world, we often feel pressure to conform to social norms, making finding the courage to embrace our unique selves a daunting challenge. Yet, it's precisely in our individuality that we discover our true power and purpose!
How to Series; Adapt and Adjust
In our current world of sports and life, the ability to adapt and adjust is a cornerstone of success. Whether it's facing unexpected challenges, overcoming setbacks, or seizing new opportunities, the capacity to pivot and find effective strategies is crucial. Today’s How to Series will explore the importance of adapting and adjusting, providing practical tips to help athletes, teams, groups, individuals, and parents alike develop these essential skills.
Stacking Small Wins; Your Path to Achievement
Have you ever looked at a goal, massive or not, and felt overwhelmed? You’re not alone! But what if I told you that achieving those goals could be as simple as stacking small wins?
1999 Forever!
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 marked the 25th anniversary of the USWNT winning the 1999 Women’s World Cup.
How To Series; Embrace Your Confidence!
Confidence is one of those things that fluctuates as we go through life’s experiences. When we start life’s journey as babies, we embrace all of life’s experiences, successes and failures, as everyday necessities. We build confidence through trial and error, persistence and perseverance, and many, many failures.
Wings
When we have negative thoughts, now matter the subject or the cause, they have the ability to take off, and often do! We let them fester, making us think they are real, and as a result we give them wings! Before we know it, there are tons of negative thoughts flying around and taking up space in our minds.
Pause is Power
Athletes, especially those in the public eye, feel a tremendous amount of pressure to perform up to the standards set for them, regardless of whether those standards are internal or external.
How to Series; Embracing Stress
It’s natural to feel stress - in fact, it’s necessary. Stress is a requirement for growth, for performance, for progress, to be your best, and at times, for survival.
Emotional Management
Emotional management is a set of skills that allows us to understand, accept, cope with, express, and regulate our emotions, and react constructively to them. This is an important skill no matter what our endeavor or situation is.
Body Mindset
What does Body Mindset mean to you? When I think about what Body Mindset means to me, I think about the narrative I’ve seen in society since I was a kid about how our bodies are “supposed” to look. The term ‘body image’ represents how we think and feel about our own body. At times, we are also influenced by how others view our bodies; we think that what we see or what we’re told is what we’re supposed to be.
How To Series; Embrace a Growth Mindset
The attitude we experience during our most challenging days provides a good example of our everyday mindset. Babies are a great example of those with a growth mindset. Their days are filled with embracing new challenges, exploring via trial and error, and ample failures.
Hunt for the Good Stuff
It is an unfortunate part of human nature (in my opinion) that we tend to focus on the negative things first. The mistakes we made, the mess ups, the things we said that aren’t sitting well - we sometimes dwell on those things and let them linger. I’ve done this many times, and I can honestly say that very little benefit came from dwelling on them.
How To Series; Self-Care
Self-care is a conscious act we can engage in to promote our own mental, physical, and emotional well being. Self-care has become such a hot topic in recent years, and for a good reason - we should all be making self-care a priority! In order to be our best when our best is needed, it’s important that we’ve taken care of ourselves so that our best is available.
Make That Old
Sometimes, even for unknown reasons, we make mistakes. Those mistakes can become emotional, whether from embarrassment, frustration, or both. And when we dwell on them, it can be hard to move on and learn from it.
How To Series; Self-Awareness
Self-awareness is the ability to monitor your internal (thoughts, feelings, emotions) and external self (the physical, i.e., tension, soreness, etc.). Cultivating your self-awareness is an important first step to developing your mindset so that the mental skills techniques required to perform consistently can be tailored and customized to your needs.
My Parents Don't Understand Me
One of the challenges is that youth/teenagers don’t yet understand themselves, so it can become hard for them to articulate what they are experiencing or for you to know how to empathize with them. It can feel a little like riding on a roller coaster at times.
Time Travel
Remember when we talked about Be Where Your Feet Are? To quickly recap, ‘be where your feet are’ reminds us that it’s best to focus on the present moment, not the past or future. Like I said before, there’s a time and a place for learning from the past and preparing for the future, but the middle of performing is not that place.
Do Hard Better
In my life, I’ve found that at times I’ve waited for things to get easier; the workouts, the long days, the back to back to back meetings, the mom life. But what has actually been happening all this time is that I’ve been learning how to handle hard better. I have been evolving, transitioning, and becoming better everyday.