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Mindset Made Simple Tip #102 — Watch or listen HERE. Register today for the FREE workshop I am offering next week on July 12th! Last week we talked about finding the silver lining in the tough stuff that comes our way. Even though we know that obstacles are opportunities, moving past that...

Mindset Made Simple Tip #83 – Evaluating Outcomes to Build Confidence and Momentum Read this tip on my site HERE. Watch or listen HERE. I’d love it if you would hit “subscribe” while you are on my channel! Thank you!!! "Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing," said former UCLA...

Mindset Made Simple Tip #69 – Will the Pressure Make or Break You? To watch or listen, click HERE. If you are my age, when someone says “under pressure” you probably go straight to the David Bowie/Freddie Mercury song with crazy lyrics like “Um ba ba be, Um ba ba be, De day da, Ee day da-...

Mindset Made Simple Tip #65 — To watch or listen, click HERE! After I write this tip, I will begin thinking about next week’s. As I go through the week, I will go through two or three different ideas. As I throw around ideas, it seems something always hits me and puts one idea at the forefront...

Mindset Made Simple Tip #60 - Watch or listen HERE! Read it at www.ssbperformance.com/blog Did you have a skateboard as a kid? I wasn’t allowed to have one. There were no helmets, wrist protectors or anything to aid in keeping you from the ER back then, and I am certain that was my mom’s...

I was a college coach for 26 years…one of 286 Division I head softball coaches in the country. Then I wasn’t. I knew I wanted to be a college coach from the age of 13. It was a big part of who I was for years. To be truthful, it still is! Like all coaches, before I knew I wanted to be a...

The Olympics and Facing Fears! Read this at www.ssbperformance.com HERE. The Olympics are AWESOME! I love watching victories…true victories…moral victories I also love watching reactions to failure. I also love listening to athletes talk about their performance. If you didn’t think...

To read this at ssbperformance.com, click HERE. Have you ever been looking at something while driving and all the sudden you are headed straight toward it? It happened to me all the time when I ran with my group of guys during my time at Cleveland State University. We would be running along...

Mindset Made Simple Tip #53 – Self-Control = Performance Control To read this on my site, click HERE. To watch or listen, click HERE. I love sports. Always have. Always will. I asked for football shoes for my third birthday. (And my mom was shocked when I told her I wanted to be a coach...

Mindset Made Simple Tip #52 – Growth Mindset and Peak Performance. A lesson learned on a kayak. To read this on my site, click HERE. To watch or listen, click HERE. Each week I plan ahead for the next week’s Mindset Made Simple Tip topic. This week, like any good performer, I adjusted to...

Mindset Made Simple Tip #50 – Strike a Pose! How Our Posture Can Enhance Our Performance. To read this on my site, click HERE. To watch or listen, click HERE. I’m not a minivan mom. However, there are times a minivan comes in handy. As I was loading up our SUV to head to a softball camp...

Mindset Made Simple Tip #49 – Herd Immunity and Mental Performance Training To read this on my site, click HERE. To watch or listen, click HERE. As we approach the July 4th goal of getting 70% of the population vaccinated, we continually hear of the benefits of herd immunity. For the health...

Mindset Made Simple Tip #48 – Balance or Burnout? To read this on my site, click HERE. After a long COVID year, are you working in BALANCE or feeling a little BURNOUT? Each morning (except for the past few weeks where I caught up on WCWS games I missed throughout the day), I listen to...

Mindset Made Simple Tip #47 – Our Mindset REALLY Matters…for More Than Just Our Performance! To watch or listen, click HERE. To read this on my site, click HERE. I think we can all agree that our MINDSET…or how we think… affects how we feel, the decisions we make and how we behave. We can...

Mindset Made Simple Tip #46 – Feeling Great? In a Slump? Injured? Here’s How to Get Better No Matter How You Feel! To watch or listen, click HERE. To read this on my site, click HERE. In and out of athletics, we all deal with times in our lives where we are not at the top of our game, whether...

Mindset Made Simple Tip #45 – Breathe to Live AND to Control our Performance! To watch or listen, click HERE. To read this on my site, click HERE. I LOVE this time of year! I love the game of softball, but I love championships even more! Lacrosse, baseball, softball…. there are plenty of...

Mindset Made Simple Tip #44 – How to Get Things Done! To watch or listen, click HERE. To read this on my site, click HERE. For most of us, the COVID athletics season has come to an end. Mandated precautions are dwindling, and our lives are moving back to a more normal pace thanks to an...

Mindset Made Simple Tip #43 – It’s Always a Great Time to Watch Ourselves be Awesome! To watch or listen, click HERE. To read this on my site, click HERE. I am pumped up! Yesterday I started a 2-month program with one of the best girls soccer programs in the country. Watching their...

Mindset Made Simple Tip #40 – Performance Shredders! Would you rather watch than read? Click HERE for this week's video tip! The word “shred” has many meanings. When I think of shred, I sometimes think of being “ripped.” My muscles are defined, my body fat is low…I, or should I be more...

Mindset Made Simple Tip #39 – Everything’s a Competition! Click HERE to read this and other tips at www.ssbperformance.com My dear friend and former assistant used to say that I turned everything into exercise. I’m not sure that was a compliment ! The truth is, I turn everything into a...