Are you on the quest to up your game, or improve performance in your sport? Your coach is helping you to increase your physical performance, but are you giving attention to your mental performance? Has anyone told you that you have grit? If not, then it’s time you probably get some.  So what the heck is grit and do I need it to win?

I love the Olympics!  I love the Olympics, not only because we get to see great athletes overcome great obstacles, but because we as everyday athletes get a peek into tried and tested practices that prove to be successful and maybe not so successful. Yesterday we saw some of the world’s greatest swimmers defeat their own mental and physical demons. The after race interviews  are filled with gold nuggets of sport psychology information that we all can use in our own training.

Loosing hurts!  It sucks!  It’s the worst feeling in the world, it’s defeating and makes you question every decision that you have made up until that point, but as we all have learned or will learn the hard way, it’s always part of the game.

How we view the outcome of our performance most definitely affects the success of our performance. Its pretty funny that we need to learn to view our performance outcomes in a certain light, in order actually perform at our very best.