Having Expectations can Harm Your Game How do expectations affect play on the field? Most softball players and baseball players understand how positive or negative expectations can hurt their game. After a bad outing on the mound, a couple of hit-less games or some errors in the field, some players … Read Sport Psychology Tip
How to Be Mentally Tough Adversity is inevitable in baseball and life. Adversity doesn’t discriminate; it strikes every athlete, every team and in every season. There are many different forms of adversity: In addition to adversity, there are multiple responses to adversity. It is important to understand that adversity happens … Read Sport Psychology Tip
How to Control your Self-Talk Athletes can talk themselves out of a lot of things. The biggest obstacle for ball players is not the opposition, but the content of their self-talk. You could have all the talent in the world but if you doubt your ability to play at a … Read Sport Psychology Tip
How to Have a Winning Mindset Your back is against the wall. It’s win or go home. What’s your mindset? How do you respond? This is not an easy situation to be in. If you haven’t faced this scenario, you will at some time. The difficulty lies in the fact … Read Sport Psychology Tip
How to Cope with Pressure “It’s Playoff Time!” Are you or your ball players excited or fearful? Playoff time is exciting for some baseball players but, for other players, playoffs are a nerve-wracking time filled with pressure. All season long, ball players put in tireless hours sweating, sacrificing and grinding … Read Sport Psychology Tip
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 and losses. For example, if you were … Read Sport Psychology Tip