How to Have Proactive Confidence Are you struggling to find the level of confidence needed to succeed as a baseball or softball player? Does the success of other players around you cause you to question your abilities and further detract from your confidence? Though gaining confidence seems to be a … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Expectations and Pressure Players Feel To be Perfect Part of baseball that players dream about is making flashy plays; fully laying out to snag a line drive, throwing out a player at home, diving for a ground ball to throw out a runner, hitting a walk-off single, etc. Many times, … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Mental Keys to Stable Confidence One sure-fire way of killing confidence is to be excessively hard on yourself after a bad game. Berating yourself or focusing on mistakes hurts your confidence greatly. Imagine if you had a coach that verbally beat you down after an error, giving up a run … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Stabilize your Confidence Chalk it up to experience. This phrase is used to relay that bad circumstances, mistakes or outcomes can be used as learning experiences or dismissed altogether rather than dwelling on the negative, reliving the experience or beating yourself up over the result. As a baseball player, you … Read Sport Psychology Tip
The Power of Your Mental Game in Baseball There is no doubt that baseball is a mental game. You can have a string of great games where you are playing at a high level, then “BOOM,” out of nowhere, the bottom drops out. This inexplicable drop in performance can be … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Developing a Positive Attitude to Improve Success What affects your baseball confidence the most? Some may say your thoughts and it is very true that your thoughts affect confidence. Think about making mistakes and your confidence drops while thinking about your talents tend to enhance confidence. Another factor that impacts … Read Sport Psychology Tip