Mental Toughness

  • Hinge Moment

    The Hinge Moment of The Coronavirus Crisis

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    The Hinge Moment of The Coronavirus Crisis  Every door has a hinge! A door without a hinge is a wall, it just doesn’t work! When you hear of doors opening or closing in life, it is because of the hinge. If you ever hear a rusty door, it’s not the door that’s rusty at all,…

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    Most Important Tool To Homeschool During The Coronavirus Crisis

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    Most Important Tool To Homeschool During The Coronavirus Crisis If you’re looking for a short-cut through the coronavirus crisis, you won’t find it. The only way out is through!  This is an obstacle in all of our lives with no timeline, but underneath it lies an opportunity. It is an opportunity to get better!  What…

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    4 Ways To Help Your Athlete Cope With The Coronavirus Crisis

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    4 Ways To Help Your Athlete Cope With The Coronavirus Crisis We are all in uncharted waters. We have never been here before and no one knows what is next.  A sailboat is off course 99% of the time! In the open ocean, sailboats are in a constant state of flux. They find the destination…

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    How The Coronavirus Can Actually Improve Our Mental Health

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    How The Coronavirus Can Actually Improve Our Mental Health It’s an unprecedented time. We are in the darkness and we have never experienced anything that resembles living in the movie “I Am Legend.” Everything is canceled, and we are all quarantined and staying home. The NCAA Tournament, the NBA, an entire country on lock-down. Entire…

  • Ladder People

    The Ladder People In Our Lives

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    The Ladder People In Our Lives After Kelvin Sampson became the head basketball coach at The University of Houston in 2014, an office-warming gift soon arrived. Kelvin Sampson had a distinguished coaching resume. He coached at the University of Oklahoma for twelve seasons, reaching the NCAA tournament for 11 of those years. He was twice…

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    5 Types of People Who Can Help You Build Mental Toughness

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    The 5 Types of People Who Can Help You Build Mental Toughness Challenges are an inescapable and necessary part of the road to success, which is why it is imperative to build mental toughness needed to overcome them. No one gets there alone, so you’ll need the support of the following people to grow. One…

  • 2020 goals list

    Will Your Goals Experience a Lapse Or Collapse?

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    Will Your Goals List Experience a Lapse Or Collapse? Gordon Alan Marlatt was a pioneer in addiction and alcohol dependence research. He led the movement toward a new behavioral approach toward treatment. In direct contrast to other leading researchers during the 1970s, Marlatt found that exposure to “high-risk situations” led people to lapse. It was…

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    Three ways to beat the holiday blues

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    I sometimes get sad around Christmas and the New Year!  I get the blues because, all of the build-up, the anticipation, the excitement, and then…. nothing. Here’s how to beat the holiday blues.  I simply forget that the journey is more important than the destination. I tell my athletes not to build up any event…

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    5 Mental Toughness Lessons From My 50 Mile JFK Ultra

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    5 Mental Toughness Lessons From 50 Mile JFK Ultra The funny thing about racing and competition is that running a 50-mile ultra, the test comes first and then the lessons come afterward. Such is life… Here are the five epic mental toughness lessons that I learned from my 50-mile run.  Race Breakdown: The race started…

  • Myths about mental toughness

    5 Popular Myths About Mental Toughness That Are Simply Wrong

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    5 popular myths about mental toughness that are simply wrong Mental Toughness, Grit, and Resiliency are the deciding factors for success in almost any career and endeavor. Perhaps more importantly, is that it will also determine our overall level of joy, satisfaction, and happiness in life.  Let’s define it first! Mental Toughness = How one…