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Confidence Tips When Playing in Front of College Coaches

For this article visit, https://rlopezcoaching.com/recruiting-tips/playing-confident-when-recruiter-stands/https://rlopezcoaching.com/recruiting-tips/playing-confident-when-recruiter-stands/ For more confidence building advice, check out "The Confident Athlete: 4 Easy...

Mental Toughness Increases Recovery

The mental toughness of an athlete/person is a great indicator of one’s ability to cope with a sports injury.  Mental toughness is nothing more than what you focus on.  Therefore, those that cope the best generally are more positive, able to control their...

Just Keep Showing Up

Confident athletes keep showing up believing that one day will be their turn.   Desiree Linden in winning the Boston Marathon exemplifies that very belief.  As she tweeted last month, “Some days it just flows and I feel like I’m born to do this, other days it feels...

Patrick Reed: Mental Toughness at Its Best

Patrick Reed maybe the least loved Masters winner of all time but he has to be near the top of most mentally tough.  He seems to thrive on pressure, from being disliked. Mental toughness is nothing more than what you focus on and Reed demonstrated that throughout his...

Thankful Tuesday: How Gratitude Boosts Confidence

Life is full of adversity and challenges making it difficult to maintain confidence.  However, with consistent practice, confidence is a skill that you can own regardless of circumstance or what is being thrown at you. There are many ways to work at building and...

February Confidence Calendar

I hope you joined me in January on the journey to a New Year of Confidence.  The feedback from the January calendar was so great that it inspired me to create a February calendar.  For more advice and tips on how to build and maintain confidence follow me on twitter...

How to Help an Author Beyond Buying Their Book

Buy their book for others as a gift. Think of which friends and relatives would enjoy the book/novel. Buy it for them as either a birthday gift or holiday gift. Get copies signed if possible to make gifts special. Even people who don’t read many novels will still take...

How Nick Saban Can Make You a Better Coach

Whether you love him or not, whether you pull for ‘Bama or not, there is much we can learn from Nick Saban.  He is arguably not only the best college football coach in the game but possibly the best coach in all of sports.  Here are a few things as coaches, we can...

The Confident Athlete: 4 Easy Steps to Build and Maintain Confidence

Many athletes have roller coaster confidence.  Their confidence is up when performing well and its down when performing poorly.  Matheny gives 4 basic building blocks to ensure you start and end each performance with a tank full of confidence. Coaches, athletes, teams...

A New Year of Confidence

Use this calendar to start the New Year off strong.  Follow @tamimatheny for more tips on confidence as well as more information on The Confident Athlete:  4 Easy Steps to Build and Maintain Confidence.

Parent’s Role in Helping Their Child Overcome a Bad Performance

I watch hundreds of athletic contests at various levels each year.  And for the most part besides the occasional tie in soccer at some levels, the one thing that I see consistently are parents going through a heart wrenching moments.  The cause of this is their...

Find A Way

Yes, this is a post about my beloved Heels.  However it is also lesson for every athlete, coach, and team out there.  Last night was a perfect example of you don't have to play pretty to win. You don't have to be perfect to win. In last night's championship game, no...

Circumstances Don’t Define You

If you don’t learn anything else from this past crazy Elite 8 Sunday, remember this: Circumstances don’t define you. How you respond defines you.  Luke Maye was not initially offered a scholarship by UNC his childhood dream school.  So his thoughts, Ok I’ll walk on...

What We Can Learn From This Year in Sports

Wow what an intense, down to the wire year in sports. Filled with drama and epic comebacks.  Think about it. Last night's Super Bowl was won in overtime after an unthinkable (unless you are a Tom Brady) comeback. The game took place in the NRG center which only 10...

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly by Brian Diaz In my 30+ years on this Earth, I have been blessed to live in 6 different states.  I have travelled to 5 different continents.  I have visited nearly every state in this great country.  All this is to say that every place has...

LeBron: Revisited

LeBron: Revisited by Tami Matheny Five years ago I wrote a blog about LeBron's crossroad of dealing with adversity or running from them.  After a short stint with the Miami Heat, James returned to Cleveland to try bringing a championship to his hometown team.  But as...

Coaching = Teaching

Coaching = Teaching by Tami Matheny The best coaches are teachers as much as coaches.  They teach their players how things should be done on and off the playing field.  What they say and do have longer lasting effect than that game or that season.   How can coaches...

Podcast Episodes

Jeff Heggie – The Confident Athlete Program

Training the Mental Game on the AD Podcast, Episode #17

 

The Confident Athlete on the Kathryn for Real Podcast

Check out my conversation on confidence and unbreakable mindsets with Kathryn Gordon.

Video

What Is Mental Toughness?

Everyone talks about being mentally tough… but what does that really mean? Watch this short video from The Confident Athlete Program where Coach Matheny talks about what it means to be Mentally Tough.

The Power of Storytelling

“What you have to do is get into the heart. And how do you get into the heart?
With stories.” -Jane Goodall
 

Listen to this short video on why stories are important along with several stories for you to use with your team or family.

Overcoming Pressure

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Good Game | Mastering the Mental Game: A Q&A with

Confidence Coach Tami Matheny 

Yes, confidence can and should be cultivated in young athletes. Mental coach Tami Matheny offers plenty of tools and advice started to help them get started. [Read More]

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