WANT TO KNOW THE MENTAL BARRIERS HOLDING YOU BACK? TAKE THIS FREE MENTAL SKILLS ASSESSMENT TO FIND O

Take this free assessment to identify the mental barriers holding you back from achieving your potential. Before you can make improvements you need to know how you are mentally holding yourself back from performing your best. This is the first step to increasing your self-awareness and improving your mental game.

Check off all the statements below that apply to your mental game:

• You perform better in practice than competition

• You struggle to bounce back from mistakes and refocus

• You lack confidence and have self-doubt about your skills

• You choke under pressure

• You have trouble staying focused on the correct things and can’t ignore distractions

• You need to control your anxiety/nerves/stress

• You need to control your frustration

• You need to control your sadness

• You do not have clear goals. You lack direction

• You can’t stay motivated. It is hard to always give 100% effort. You need help managing your energy and improving your practice performance

• You worry about failing or making mistakes

• You are not sure how to get in the zone consistently. You need help with mental preparation

• You need to remove mental blocks

• You need help managing your perfectionism and expectations Expecting to be perfect or make no mistakes gets in the way of your performance.

• You want to improve your overall mental toughness

• You need to improve your self talk. Including managing negative thinking, using helpful/positive thinking and decreasing self-criticism

• You want help coping with injury/pain

• You are dealing with personal issues that are interfering with your sport

• You are in a performance slump or feel burnt out

• You overthink before you compete

• You worry about what others think when you are competing

• You have coaches or parents who are difficult to deal with. They are affecting your performance or training

• You are going through a tough transition such as high school to college or into retirement

• You would like to improve you awareness of the mental barriers that are stopping you from performing your best

• Other

If you have checked 2 or more boxes above you can definitely improve your performance with mental training.

If you want to go one step further look at all the statements you have checked. For each mental barrier rate out of 5 how much it hurts your performance or affects your training. For example if you struggle to bounce back from mistakes you would rate this 5 if you often perform worse afterwards. Once you have done this for each, identify the five mental barriers rated the highest and these are the areas you need to start working on first.

What to do next? If you are ready for one-on-one sessions and a customized mental training program contact me here. Be sure to let me the results of your free mental skills assessment above.

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