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Focus:

• knowing what they need to pay attention to

• resist distractions

  • pinpoint for focus

• knowing how to play in the “here and now”, don’t dwell on mistakes

Exercises:

• Mindfulness Meditations

  • YouTube videos…

• “Object Staring” (pinpoint for focus)

• Having a mistake reset routine

• Focus Ladder

Confidence:

• Trust that your training will pay off

• Believe in yourself

Exercises:

• Focusing on solutions instead of what has gone wrong

• Power Phrase repeat

• Avoiding comparisons

• Support system

• Practice the way you’re going to play

Resilience:

• bouncing back from failure

Exercises:

• Positive self-talk

• focus on solutions

• mistake reset routine

Composure:

• Being able to handle emotions and stay calm

• Accepting mistakes

Exercises:

• Breathing exercise

• Mindfulness Meditation

• Positive self-talk

Goal Setting:

• making goals specific, measurable, achievable

• identify reasonable time constraints

• motivation

Exercises:

• Come up with goals (dream goals, performance goals, outcome goals, process goals)

• Goal journal, pyramid

Visualization:

• Mental rehearsal of what you want to happen

• real life examples of elite athletes: Pele, etc

Exercises:

• Visualization (visualize desired outcome)

• Imagining process of performing task

Positive Self-talk

• replacing negative thoughts with positive encouraging ones

• building yourself up

Exercises:

• Power phrase repeat

• Identifying negative talk, reframe it

• Mindfulness Meditation

• Gratitude Practice