Professional Baseball Players and Frustration
I’m sure you’ve seen professional baseball players lose their cool during games. What causes players to lose their composure during competition? You can lose their composure for several reasons. You might lose your composure after making stupid errors, not meeting your expectations or feeling angry or frustrated with your performance. Milton Bradley of the Chicago Cubs shows his anger by throwing temper tantrums on the field. Recently, Bradley... [Read More...]
The Mental Game: Distracted by Inner Chatter?
Do you start a game focused and ready to play, ready to clean up, but then become distracted by your own negative inner chatter? Many baseball players can get focused, but their inner chatter can hold them back from performing their best. Your negative inner chatter includes any thoughts that do not help you perform in the moment. You might be thinking about the score of the game as you get up to bat. You might be worried about what your hitting coach... [Read More...]
Two Confidence Killers Ball Players Must Avoid
Baseball players can undermine their confidence without even knowing it. One way is to set strict expectations. The other is to hold onto self-doubt. We’ll take a look at each of these mental game challenges to help you boost your self-confidence. Here is my conclusion after working with 1000’s of athletes: Strict or high expectations can undermine and suck the life out of confidence! Expectations can be tricky. You might think that setting high... [Read More...]
Your Mental Game and Letting Go of Errors
Mistakes or errors occur every day in baseball, but many players don’t have the mental game that allows them to let go of errors and this hurts their chances for success. Missing a throw, botching a simple ground ball, striking out at the plate, or dropping a pop up will and do happen all the time in baseball. However, these errors become a huge mental game thorn in a player’s mind. And in many cases, especially with youth players, they shut... [Read More...]
