Mental Toughness Blog
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My Top 5 Books From 2015
“If you are a coach, you are paid to read.” That’s what Tim Robbins taught me, I believed him, so I tried to abide. I hammered more audiobooks this year than every before as well. Here are my top 5
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Why we Should NOT have heroes
Why We Should NOT Have Heroes. I was a huge B.J. Surhoff fan. He played baseball for the Brewers and the Orioles. I didn’t just meet him, I bum-rushed into him at a bar at the University of North
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19 Ways to Practice Humility
19 Ways to Practice Humility My mom took a friend and I to the beach for the weekend….at the time was working her way through nursing school and was exhausted because she had worked several consecutive shifts. This wasn’t a
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Signing The Eyeball Contract Of Mental Toughness
Signing The Eyeball Contract Of Mental Toughness One summer, I spoke to a group of 30-40 elite divers every week. This particular session, I brought along my son and daughter, ages 6 & 4. They enjoyed sharing the stage with
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Top 10 things I’ve learned from coaches
My high school baseball coach once praised me behind closed doors but criticized me in front of my teammates. I think he had it backward, but I wasn’t mentally tough at the time. He served as a huge external motivator
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3 Ways To Prevent The Big Meltdown
3 ways to prevent the big meltdown I took a few steps to my right at second base to field a simple ground ball. I dropped it… Run scored, game over! I then proceeded to punch the brick wall of