The Importance of Self-Confidence
Sports self-confidence is the number one mental skill that your young athlete must possess to be successful in sports and life! Self-doubt is the number one mental barrier that blocks athletes from success in sports and life.
Having high levels of confidence is so important that I spend most of my time teaching students how to develop and harnesses the power of confidence.
I recently received an email from a concerned sports parent about her son ‘folding’ under the pressure of big games. She said, in big games, he seems to lose confidence to easily and not perform well, but in practice looks like a million bucks.
This is a very common challenge that I help athletes overcome and is highly related to confidence (or what I call ‘competitive confidence’). In my book, there is a big difference between practice self-confidence and competitive self-confidence.
Anyone can feel confident and look great in practice, but the challenge is having the same high level of confidence in competition or big games and performing well in these situations.
At any one time, young athletes either think in ways to boost confidence or hurt confidence. My approach is to help athlete improve their thinking so they can feel more confident AND help them identify and discard thoughts or beliefs that undermine confidence.
Some athletes are blessed with a high level of confidence in their ability and it shows in competition.
You might be the most positive sports parent in the world, but in spite of your positive parenting, your son or daughter may hold on to doubts and negative self-labels (i.e. ‘I choke in big games.’) that will severely limit his or her performance.
I have great news for you! We have a NEW program to help athletes boost confidence and dispel doubts forever called THE CONFIDENT ATHLETE!
‘The Confident Athlete,’ workbook program, is a ground-breaking system to teach athletes and sports parent how to think like a champion and have ultimate self-confidence every time athletes step on the playing field, court, track, or course.
Here are a few highlight of my new program, The Confident Athlete: A 14-Day Plan for Ultimate Self-Confidence:
>2 CDs packed with confidence-boosting tips that you can enjoy many times again to squeeze out the last drop of confidence you can.
>A 68 page workbook to help you practice and apply the mental game strategies, and individualize the exercises to your needs.
>14 Days of confidence boosters and other unique exercises to solidify each confidence booster and help apply to competition.
>A daily confidence scoreboard that can be used to score confidence levels after every competition.
>A summary of all confidence action plans you must take to top off the confidence fuel tank.
>Two additional peak performance bonuses that ads real value to the program.
I strongly suggest you hop on over to my web site and check it out!
Here is the link to read more about THE CONFIDENT ATHLETE.
Sincerely,
Patrick J. Cohn, Ph.D., Mental Training Expert
‘The Confident Athlete’ includes two SPECIAL bonuses that you can download immediately. The first is an e-book titled ‘The Confidence-Expectation Connection.’ The second is an hour-long teleclass MP3 recording I did with peaksports.com members called, Don’t Hang Your Head: How to Keep Confidence after Mistakes.
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The Confident Athlete
“The Confident Athlete” consists of 2 audio programs that include 14 days of confidence fueling exercises and a simple to follow workbook that guides you through the 14 days, helps you apply the strategies, and customizes the exercises to your personal needs.
Let me help you put a stop to the confidence leak. You can learn to have greater levels of confidence in competition than you do in practice by identifying the specific ways you undermine your own confidence and how to convert your practice confidence into COMPETITIVE CONFIDENCE.
“The Confident Athlete” is a ground-breaking system to teach you how to think like a champion and have ultimate self-confidence every time you step on the playing field, court, track, or course. The confident athletes was developed for any athlete – junior to professional –that wants to gain confidence. However, coaches and sports parents can learn how to teach others to perform with ultimate confidence. Use my program if you want to bust a slump or just wanting higher or more consistent levels of self-confidence.