by Carrie Jackson | Feb 6, 2018 | Get Motivated, Life Lessons, Peak Performance
Have you ever had a performance where everything just clicked? When you were completely absorbed in the moment, like nothing else existed. Many athletes have experienced being “in the zone” during competition. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi studied intrinsic motivation and...
by Carrie Jackson | Jan 13, 2018 | Mental Training School, Peak Performance
Mental Training School is in session and I have your first assignment for 2018! When I assign homework to athletes – I actually call it “funwork” 😀 I call it this because the homework I assign is designed with the purpose of increasing your enjoyment of your...
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 | Sep 4, 2017 | Get Motivated, Peak Performance
Lauren Tamayo is an Olympian, a World Record holder in the Team Pursuit, and a National Crit Champion, but those aren’t even the most impressive things about her. OK – they’re pretty impressive, but to me, one of the most impressive things about Lauren is what an...
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
Sometimes in life, things don’t go as smoothly or easily as we would like. In fact, the longer I’m on this planet, the more I realized that MOST of the time things end up playing out a little bit differently than we expected. When you come up against a...
by Carrie Jackson | May 8, 2017 | Injured Athletes, Life Lessons, Peak Performance
Sometimes my most brilliant ideas for blog posts come to me when I’m out on a run. While I was recently in Asheville, NC for a work sabbatical, there was this great little running trail near the place I was staying. It was a perfect path to be able to take a break...
by Carrie Jackson | Apr 8, 2017 | Get Confident, Get Motivated, Life Lessons, Peak Performance
One of the most stressful situations you can be in is when there are decisions being made that affect you, of which you have no control over. When things don’t go the way we want them to, it feels unfair and we tend to point fingers and blame other people for...
by Carrie Jackson | Mar 13, 2017 | Achieve Your Goals, Get Motivated, Peak Performance
Motivation is one of the most researched topics in the field of sport psychology and also one of the most complex. It’s complex because not only do people have various underlying motivations for why they choose to participate in their sport and how driven they...
