Focusing on Things You Can Control What is your mindset during a slump or in the middle of a bad game? Some baseball players tend to give up or give in while having a bad game. In other words, these players lose their focus or give less effort. Imagine this … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Why Confidence From Others Doesn’t Help How can you find the confidence in your abilities when it seems no one else believes in you? Confidence can seem elusive when you know you have the talent, ability, or technical skills, yet your coaches, teammates, or parents don’t see or acknowledge your … 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
Is it possible to be nervous and confident simultaneously during a baseball game? Baseball players are often placed into two categories: “chokers” and “clutch” or, to say it another way, the “nervous player” and the “confident player.” This implies you are one or the other: nervous with no confidence or … 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
Video 2: Do Circumstances Affect Your Confidence? In this video series, you learn about the top confidence-killers for ball players and what you can do to overcome these top confidence killers. In this video, you’ll learn: How confidence can be thrashed around by relying too much on external sources for … Read Sport Psychology Tip