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 17, 2017 | Get Confident, Mental Training School
Have you ever been plagued with the dreaded “what-ifs”? What if I choke? What if I drop the ball? What if I strike out? What if I can’t finish? The “what-ifs” are endless. One of the tools I use to help athletes build their mental toughness and...
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 Virginia Chatham | Apr 19, 2017 | Training Peaks, Videos
Every athlete and coach knows that training and competition are as much mental as they are physical, but how much time do you spend working on and training for the mental aspects of your performance? Join us for this live Q & A webinar with expert Mental Skills...
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...
by Carrie Jackson | Feb 15, 2017 | Achieve Your Goals, Mental Training School
One of the pitfalls of goal setting is setting too many goals. There are so many things you want to accomplish, so many things you are excited about, that you try setting goals for ALL of them and end up accomplishing none of them. When you try to give yourself too...
