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What Teddy Roosevelt taught us about “Process vs Outcome Goals”

March 3, 2015March 10, 2015 Stephen Walker, PhD 0 Comments Americas-coach, fear-of-failure, flow-state, goal-setting, mental-training, outcome-goals, process-goals, success, Teddy-Roosevelt

“It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or where

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Legitimate Excuses for Failure

December 22, 2008March 21, 2012 Stephen Walker, PhD 0 Comments excuses, failure, hockey, NHL, pro, reasons, success

“To have the ultimate result of making the NHL you must systematically and with vigor identify all potential issues that

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USOC Sport Psychology's “TOP TEN” Guiding Principles for Mental Training

February 6, 2008 Stephen Walker, PhD 2 Comments coaching, consistency, mental-mistakes, mental-skills, mental-training, mistakes, olympic-sports, performance, success, technical-mistakes, training

By Sean McCann, Ph.D., CC-AASP, USOC Sports Psychologist 1. Mental training can’t replace physical training and talent. 2. Physical training

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The Confidence Man – Mariano Rivera

July 30, 2007 Stephen Walker, PhD 0 Comments article, baseball, best, coach, coaching, competition, composure, confidence, hitter-calm, Mariano, mental-skills, mental-strength, mental-toughness, pitcher, relief, Rivera, sport-psychology, sports-psychology, success, time

“By the time Rivera reached the mound, he had shed all of the elements of humanity inconvenient to his job.

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The Nine Mental Skills of a Successful Athlete

February 17, 2007June 5, 2011 Dr. Jack Lesyk 10 Comments athlete, attitude, concentration, dr jack lesyk, emotions, goals, mental-skills, mental-skills-training, performance-pyramid, positive, self-motivation, self-talk, setting, success

During the past twenty-five years, I have had the privilege of working with hundreds of athletes from over thirty different

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