by Carrie Jackson | May 30, 2013 | Get Confident, Life Lessons
What do you do when you’re 22 years old and you’ve been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes? If you’re Sébastien Sasseville, you spend a couple months climbing the world’s tallest mountain, spend seven days racing across the world’s hottest desert, and...
by Carrie Jackson | Aug 13, 2012 | Achieve Your Goals, Get Motivated, Life Lessons
Last week an incredible feat was accomplished. The robotic explorer “Curiosity” endured an incredible journey to safely land on Mars. “Curiosity” travelled over 350 million miles. At the end of the 8 ½ month long journey, once it hit the top of the atmosphere, this 1...
by Carrie Jackson | May 10, 2012 | Life Lessons, Peak Performance
Have you ever noticed that sometimes you have a hard time letting things go? You made a mistake or wish you had done something differently and you obsess about it, driving yourself crazy, and no matter how much pain and angst it causes you, somehow you just...
by Carrie Jackson | Jan 21, 2012 | Get Motivated, Peak Performance
I recently sat down to read my February 2012 issue of Outside Magazine and one of the articles highlights Lolo Jones, an Olympic hurdler. Jones is one of the fastest female hurdlers in the world. If you don’t know what hurdling is, imagine sprinting at a...
by Carrie Jackson | Jul 8, 2011 | Endurance Athletes, Get Confident, Peak Performance
The topic for this Mental Skills Minute is all about recovering from a bad stage. In a stage race as long as the Tour de France, you are bound to have a day that doesn’t go as planned. When you have a day that doesn’t go as well as you hoped it would, you...
by Carrie Jackson | Jan 13, 2011 | Injured Athletes
Overcoming an injury. I could probably write about this topic every week and it would resonate with someone who reads it. For people who use their bodies for exercise and sport, whether you are doing so for your health or your profession, sustaining an injury can be...
by Carrie Jackson | Nov 30, 2010 | Peak Performance
OK – here it is… the final lesson. To wrap up this little series on lessons learned, one of the greatest lessons I learned during the journey to and through my adventure race was the fact that my mental skills training (MST) was key in helping me to have...
by Carrie Jackson | Oct 15, 2010 | Peak Performance
This post continues down the path of the mental skills lessons I learned during my training and athletic endeavors in the month of September. Although my first lesson revolved around the importance of having a plan, my second lesson was that sometimes things...
