Say hello to my athlete Maddie, in her first World race competing for Canada at the Junior World Snowboarding Championships in Italy just over one week ago. I started working with Maddie about 2 years ago now, and at that time she was extremely talented, yet she kept falling on her second run.  Through consistent mental … Continue reading Dreams can come true… →

Yes, you read me correctly: focusing on your goals doesn’t work, in fact goals don’t work unless you don’t focus on them.  Let me explain. To get the most out of your performance, it’s imperative that you maintain present-minded focus.  If you’re not focused completely on the present moment, your opportunity for performance declines correspondingly. … Continue reading Goals don’t work, unless . . . →

I’m always amazed at the inspiration that comes from children’s movies. One of my favourites is Kung Fu Panda. In the movie, a food loving, out of shape panda named Po aspires to be a Kung Fu Master. After a funny series of events, he is accepted into the Kung Fu training program led by … Continue reading Something to think about →

I am reminded right now, as I keep trying harder and harder to figure out what profound message I’ll write right now (with less ideas coming the harder I try to think of them), of what my national team coach Lorne Sawula used to say to me. Lorne would proclaim ‘You make the easy look … Continue reading LET’S ZAP THOSE DISTRACTIONS →

I’m so excited to tell you about Erika. She is a young gymnast who has been working with Mental Toughness Inc. for eight months now. We have focused on coping with the stresses of high performance (lots of elements of risk) routines, and maintaining confidence as the competition-stakes get higher.

If you are looking for a way to overcome fear that is holding you back from a maxed outperformance, then there are a lot of resources out there that can help. Here are a few good articles. You will see some commonalties between them.

I spent two years researching and writing my Master’s thesis on: What has athletes perform or underperform at the biggest competition in the world, the Olympics? The research was unanimous: Those who performed at the Olympics were those who placed a priority on training their mind. That’s why we designed The Mental Toughness Training Program for Champion Athletes.

Few athletes or teams have accomplished this in their career. The Humber College Hawks Volleyball Team did just that as they completed their regular season by capturing the Ontario (Canada) provincial gold medal. Find in this column out how they managed to accomplish that success using – you guessed it – mental toughness training.

Here’s what baseball great Derek Jeter says about hard work…an excerpt is from our e-book 47 Performance Hacks for Your Success: Learn the fear stomping secrets of the world’s top performers.

You are an athlete, a high performer, and you don’t have time to waste, right?  And, I’ll bet that’s not all you do.  You likely balance family, education, work, daily chores, making meals (you’ve got to eat don’t you?), and recovery tasks like massage, physiotherapy, and more eating!  So, how can you make more time to focus on your passions?  The following 8 ideas will make you more productive.

As an athlete or high performer you know all about being “busy”. However, it’s not just important to be productive in school or at work so that you can squeeze in your invaluable training time. You must also train with the principle of “PRODUCTIVE” at the core of each workout, so that you can get the most out of every training session.

I’m really starting to understand the power of acceptance, like the acceptance of whatever happens – that’s not saying that I don’t ever want it to be a different way, or that I won’t train myself to do something different the next time if things don’t work, but rather accepting whatever happened because it already … Continue reading Acceptance Matters →