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		<title>Players Who Shut Down After Mistakes</title>
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Do your players get so frustrated that they can focus on the game? Learn how to help young players manage their expectations in sports.
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		<link>http://www.baseballmentalgame.com/baseball-mental-game-videos/players-who-shut-down-after-mistakes/</link>
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		<title>Helping Young Athletes Cope with Mistakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Frustrated parents and baseball coaches contact us everyday about their athletes&#8217; inability to handle mistakes or cope with imperfection in sports. If your athletes get frustrated with errors, strike outs, bad calls from unpires, you&#8217;ll want to watch the video below.
Dr. Cohn an exciting new Workbook and CD program for parents, coaches, and their young athletes--available at the end of the week. However, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baseballmentalgame.com/featured-mental-game-articles/helping-sports-kids-cope-with-mistakes-video-part-3/</link>
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		<title>Mental Keys to Staying in the Moment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ability to concentrate is critical to successful performance in all sports, especially in baseball. Each game requires you to turn your concentration on and off several times. When it is time to go to the plate, you have to turn on the concentration. When you’re in the dugout, you can relax your concentration.
Total concentration [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baseballmentalgame.com/featured-mental-game-articles/mental-keys-to-staying-in-the-moment/</link>
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		<title>The Power of Choice in Hitting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The power of choice is one of the most important mental game abilities that ball players possess. Much of my work with athletes involves teaching players that they have the ability to make good choices with their mental game. In fact, everything I do in sport psychology revolves around showing players how to make good choices in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baseballmentalgame.com/featured-mental-game-articles/the-power-of-choice-in-hitting/</link>
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		<title>Refocus When You Get Too Far Ahead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do distractions cause you to become sidetracked during baseball or softball games? Are you anxious about what the outcome of the game might be? Do you tense up and put more pressure yourself to win? If you said yes, then you focus too much on results and not enough on the process. You should learn when and how to refocus your mind on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baseballmentalgame.com/featured-mental-game-articles/refocus-to-improve-concentration/</link>
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		<title>How to Keep Practice Exciting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Keeping practice interesting is a big challenge for professional players that spend as much as eight hours a day practicing and playing ball. It’s also a challenge for amateur players who practice more than two hours at a time. When you are bored with practice, you don’t feel challenged enough. This can lead to less [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baseballmentalgame.com/featured-mental-game-articles/how-to-keep-practice-exciting/</link>
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		<title>How to Think Less at the Plate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ability to swing your bat naturally and instinctively is critical to great hitting. The major purpose of batting practice is to trust your swing when it’s time to play the game. As you get more repetitions through practice, you develop a memory program for that movement.
Soon with a lot of practice, your swing becomes instinctive, natural, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baseballmentalgame.com/baseball-psychology/think-less-at-the-plate/</link>
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		<title>Four Steps to an At-Bat Routine</title>
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Do you have an at-bat mental routine? Do you use a batting routine to help improve your mental game and confidence in the box? Watch this video to learn to top mental game strategies of an at-bat routine.
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		<link>http://www.baseballmentalgame.com/baseball-confidence/four-steps-in-a-baseball-at-bat-routine/</link>
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		<title>6 Common Mental Game Errors For Hitters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my work, it’s important to help ball players be aware when they are making mental errors and also provide direction. You first have to know when there is a problem before you can address it. Great hitting requires you maintain a great attitude. Confidence, trust, and focus are the keys to great hitting, but many players [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baseballmentalgame.com/featured-mental-game-articles/are-you-making-mental-errors-at-the-plate/</link>
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		<title>Mariano Rivera and The Power of Self-Discipline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Coping with failure is very much a part of baseball. Hitters’ certainly don’t get a hit or succeed every time. The top hitters succeed three out of 10 times on average. Pitchers have had their taste of failure too. Pitchers succeed only half the time, even at the professional level. With all this failure, how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baseballmentalgame.com/featured-mental-game-articles/mariano-rivera-and-the-power-of-self-discipline/</link>
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