Don’t Give Up on This Season’s Goals Did you set meaningful goals for this baseball or softball season? Goals are targets that provide you a sense of purpose and direction. Goal setting is an effective strategy to keep you focused, motivated and energized to achieve a personal objective while overcoming … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Using Sports Psychology to Get Back on Track How is it that, for some ball players, one bad game can cause them to lose confidence affecting future performances? Some ball players have great difficulty bouncing back from a bad game. One bad game leads to another and another and another… … Read Sport Psychology Tip
How to Control your Self-Talk Athletes can talk themselves out of a lot of things. The biggest obstacle for ball players is not the opposition, but the content of their self-talk. You could have all the talent in the world but if you doubt your ability to play at 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
Are Mental Skills Important in Baseball? Baseball is a mental and physical game. You can’t reach your potential as a baseball player if you only work on one aspect of your game. Yet many players only work on the physical aspects of the game, such as throwing mechanics, hitting technique, … 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