by Carrie Jackson | Dec 30, 2017 | Achieve Your Goals, Peak Performance
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, there’s never a New Year that goes by without the thought of New Year’s Resolutions. A resolution is basically a formal, declared intent to do (or not do) something. The changing of one year into the next is a natural time to reflect...
by Carrie Jackson | Aug 26, 2017 | Achieve Your Goals, Get Motivated, Mental Training School
We are bombarded in pop culture media with all kinds of information about creating healthy habits. Drink more water, meditate daily, floss your teeth, stretch and roll, workout, start a gratitude journal, start a bed time routine, get up early, eat more leafy greens,...
by Carrie Jackson | Aug 12, 2017 | Achieve Your Goals
Effective goal setting is an essential skill for any athlete. That’s right – it’s a skill – just like your physical skills, which means that it takes work to become proficient at it. Goals help you direct your energy and focus, increase your motivation, boost your...
by Carrie Jackson | Jul 10, 2017 | Achieve Your Goals, Get Motivated, Peak Performance
We have all had experiences of wanting something to be different, but staying stuck in the same place. Wishing things would be different doesn’t make change happen. Wanting things to be different doesn’t make change happen. There are many factors...
by Carrie Jackson | Jun 6, 2017 | Achieve Your Goals, Get Confident, Get Motivated, Peak Performance
Every athlete knows what it feels like when things don’t go as planned — a race that falls apart, a training block that gets hijacked by other life plans, a goal that keeps slipping out of reach. The difference between athletes who push through those moments and...
by Carrie Jackson | Mar 13, 2017 | Achieve Your Goals, Get Motivated, Peak Performance
Motivation and commitment are two of the most talked-about concepts in sport psychology, and they’re also two of the most misunderstood. They’re not the same thing, and you can’t always use one to replace the other. This post breaks down the...
by Carrie Jackson | Jan 9, 2017 | Achieve Your Goals, Get Motivated, Peak Performance
Is grit something we should really be talking about? Is this a concept that has its own legs – or is it just the latest buzzword for “mental toughness”? I gotta be honest – I kind of ignored the whole concept for a while. I ignored it until a friend and colleague of...
by Carrie Jackson | Dec 13, 2016 | Achieve Your Goals
I am a goal driven person. I gain a tremendous amount of pleasure and satisfaction from setting goals and then figuring out how to work towards achieving them. In fact, sometimes I have to remind myself that I don’t always have to be striving for something, and...
by Carrie Jackson | Jul 25, 2016 | Achieve Your Goals, Get Confident, Life Lessons, Peak Performance
This is a picture of me. I’m looking slightly stunned, helmet askew, and standing on top of what I like to call, “The Green Monster”. I can’t remember what it’s actually called, but I remember the experience vividly. It was last summer, at Diabetes Training Camp...
