The Mental Edge: Trying too hard often can create more harm than help
As athletes, you’ve likely been told to give it 110 percent, grind it out, play until the whistle or something along these lines. Hard work…
The Mental Edge: How meditation can help athletes be fully in the moment
When I attend events, conduct workshops or meet baseball players who are interested in learning more about mental performance, one of the first questions I…
Dumar: How to maximize your pre-performance mindset
When I’m working with baseball players interested in enhancing their performance on the field, one area that I look to is their pre-performance routines. Athletes…
How to integrate mental skills into your camp experience
Camp season is fast approaching, which is a great time of year to have the pressures of a competitive season off your shoulders. Summer is…
Mental Edge: How to turn your feelings into focus
One of the more difficult challenges in playing baseball is that you don’t have complete control over when you play and how much time you…
Our values point way to our goals
Every game in baseball is played to determine a result: who wins and who loses. This is the goal at the heart of baseball: to…
Support for the struggling
In a small New England town, a young athlete sits alone on the bus as he rides home from his baseball game. "I’m not good…
Embrace the eye of the hurricane
This is the story of the three little pigs — from a mental performance perspective. The three little pigs live with their mother, who, having…
Train your inner coach to improve
Every baseball player has at least two coaches. The one in the dugout and the one inside his head. While the one in the dugout…
Go with the ‘flow’ to peak on game day
As an athlete, you’re always practicing your physical skills to improve your performance, but are you effectively training your mind to improve your performance as…
