I am reminded right now, as I keep trying harder and harder to figure out what profound message I'll write right now (with less ideas coming the harder I try...

I’m so excited to tell you about Erika. She is a young gymnast who has been working with Mental Toughness Inc. for eight months now. We have focused on coping with the stresses of high performance (lots of elements of risk) routines, and maintaining confidence as the competition-stakes get higher.

If you are looking for a way to overcome fear that is holding you back from a maxed outperformance, then there are a lot of resources out there that can help. Here are a few good articles. You will see some commonalties between them.

Few athletes or teams have accomplished this in their career. The Humber College Hawks Volleyball Team did just that as they completed their regular season by capturing the Ontario (Canada) provincial gold medal. Find in this column out how they managed to accomplish that success using – you guessed it – mental toughness training.

You are an athlete, a high performer, and you don’t have time to waste, right?  And, I’ll bet that’s not all you do.  You likely balance family, education, work, daily chores, making meals (you’ve got to eat don’t you?), and recovery tasks like massage, physiotherapy, and more eating!  So, how can you make more time to focus on your passions?  The following 8 ideas will make you more productive.

The other day one of the athletes I worked with at a workshop asked me the following question: "I was wondering if you could tell me what to do when your...