How to Overcome Self-Criticism Are you hard on yourself as a baseball or softball player? Do you expect success and over-emphasize your mistakes? Sometimes ball players can be their own worst enemies. All they see are their mistakes, errors, strikeouts, outs, wild pitches … [Mental Game of Baseball Article...]
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Mental Keys to Higher Confidence for Ball Players
How to have Proactive Confidence Are you struggling to find the level of confidence needed to succeed as a baseball or softball player? Does the success of other players around you cause you to question your abilities and further detract from your confidence? Though … [Mental Game of Baseball Article...]
Control Your Thoughts. Control Your Performance
Use Your Mind to Improve Performance Every young athlete has a dream of making it “big.” Whether they are dreaming of making the varsity high school team, starting on their college team or making the pros, the dream is universal. But what happens when your opportunity … [Mental Game of Baseball Article...]
How to Avoid the Absolute Thinking Trap
Stop Thinking in Absolute Terms Baseball is a hard enough game but sometimes baseball players can make the game even more complicated. One such way baseball players complicate the game is when they think in absolutes. Absolute thinking are generalizations you make about … [Mental Game of Baseball Article...]
Use Your Mind to Perform Better in Games
How to Trust in your Skills “Try to do less” sounds like a phrase for the lazy. In baseball, athletes are always trying harder in training… spending more time in the batting cages, taking extra fielding practice, expanding pitching repertoires improving accuracy on throws, … [Mental Game of Baseball Article...]
Integrating Mental Training Into Practice
How to Achieve your Potential A lot of baseball players have come to ask, “How can I achieve my potential as a player?” Athletes hear the term “potential” all the time… “He has a lot of potential.” “His potential is unlimited.” Ball players hear about “having a lot of … [Mental Game of Baseball Article...]