The most consistent athletes do things that set them apart every day. Start the fall season off by standing out- doing something every day that sets you apart. Implement the following strategies and watch your game soar: Tip #1: Your Self-Talk is Your Superpower. Your...

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”  -Maya Angelou The only bird that dares to peck at an eagle is the crow. The crow sits on the eagle’s back and bites his neck. The eagle does not respond, nor fight...

High expectations often destroy many athletic performances and sometimes careers. While expectations can provide motivation and goals to strive for, excessively high expectations can have damaging effects that create pressure, anxiety, loss of confidence, and fear of...

Back in high school, I made really good grades, except anything that involved writing. Often papers would come back with messages such as "great content but you really need to work on your writing." One day I had a book report assigned for SR English and I told myself...

“Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears.” -Laird Hamilton At the 2018 Winter Olympics, Nathan Chen was the overwhelming favorite to win gold but suffered a heartbreaking poor performance in the short program that sunk his chances. Afterward...

Have you ever struggled with the comparison trap? You find yourself weighing your strengths and weaknesses against others? If you’re honest most of us have at one time or another. When we do this, it negatively effects our confidence. After all comparison is the thief...

TOP 10: #1: Researchers at Penn State found that smiling- even a forced smile reduces stress, boasts happiness, and increases confidence. #TheConfidentAthlete #2: Stop worrying about what can go wrong and get excited about what can go right. #3: Being confident isn't...

December 2nd, 2023 marked a year to the day that I found myself in the ER with a collapsed lung. This was after 40 hours of focusing on nothing more than taking the next breath. A year removed, I found myself with tears of joy as I completed the last few miles of a...

“It doesn’t matter what you say you believe- it only matters what you do.” -Robert Fulghum Muhammed Ali is a great example of someone that believed in himself. In the 1974 World Heavyweight Boxing Championship, Rumble in the Jungle, Ali was challenging George Foreman,...

“Success is how you choose to define it." I recently how the opportunity to speak to the East Rutherford High School 2023 graduating class. Listen to how we can bounce through difficult decisions and challenges that we face in life: http://bit.ly/3qcvXer.

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”-Nelson Mandela According to an old African folktale, a herd of gazelles was feeding lazily on the grasses of the Serengeti, when a pride of hungry lions caught wind of them. Gazelles, as...

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” -Max Planck You could walk across a 2x4 board on the ground without falling right? But what if this same 2x4 board is placed 10 stories high, across two buildings? Only a few of us at best...

“A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because her trust is not on the branch but on its own wings. Always believe in yourself.” -Charlie Wardle The bird strongly believes that it can still survive even if the branch it is on breaks. It...

“It takes years to make an overnight success.” -Eddie Cantor The journey of the bamboo tree is a fascinating one. Once planted, it needs to be watered, nurtured, and fertilized every day. But nothing happens in its first year. You do the same thing the next year, and...

The Confident Athlete's top 10 posts for 2022... #10 Jealousy is a lack of confidence. #9 Until you change your way of thinking, you will always recycle your experiences. #8       #7 Confidence is simple, it comes from the things you say to yourself....

“In stories, as in life, adversity teaches us things we cannot learn otherwise. Adversity helps to develop a depth of character that comes in no other way. Our loving Heavenly Father has set us in a world filled with challenges and trials so that we, through...

Adversity is often seen as a bad thing, something to avoid. However, in order to accomplish anything worthwhile, adversity is necessary. We need it! It allows us to show what we are capable of. We need adversity to help us accomplish something great, or if it were...