Mental Toughness

Coping With Adversity and Challenging Situations

WHAT IS MENTAL TOUGHNESS

Mental toughness is having the natural or developed psychological edge that enables a person to be more consistent in remaining determined, focused, confident, resilient, and in control under pressure. Doing so enables a person to:

- Generally cope better than your opponents with the many demands (e.g., competition, training, and lifestyle) that are placed on you as a performer
- Specifically, to be more consistent and better than your opponents in remaining determined, focused, confident, resilient, and in control under pressure

In sport, mental toughness gives the sportsperson a psychological edge that enables them, all other things being equal to outperform their competitors. There are key and distinct psychological characteristics associated with mentally tough elite athletes:

- Self Belief – how you feel about your skills, abilities, looks and behavior
- Motivation
- Focus
- Composure

Self Confidence

“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self- confidence is preparation.”
Arthur Ashe

How Mental Toughness Gives You The Edge

Mental toughness is a skill that can be taught. The first thing you learn is how to change your emotions by changing your thoughts. You learn to evaluate and acknowledge a variety of feelings and the behaviours they motivate. Once you learn to manage your emotions, you can then manage your thoughts and actions to produce peak performance outcomes. This gives you the edge over your competitors.

Our Range Of Services

Common Issues We Can Help You Overcome

- Unable to Bounce Back from Mistakes
- Can’t Control Negative Emotions
- Performing Poorly Under Pressure
- Lack of Focus on Important Information
- Worrying About the Future and Fearing Failure
- Lack of Motivation and Enjoyment
- Bad Leadership
- Performing Better in Practice than in Games
- Lack of Trust in Yourself
- Performance Anxiety

- Unable to Bounce Back from Mistakes
- Can’t Control Negative Emotions
- Performing Poorly Under Pressure
- Lack of Focus on Important Information
- Worrying About the Future and Fearing Failure
- Lack of Motivation and Enjoyment
- Bad Leadership
- Performing Better in Practice than in Games
- Lack of Trust in Yourself
- Performance Anxiety

Mental Skills Training

Mental skills training is geared towards maximizing and enhancing performance. It is focused on getting to know the athlete or performer at a personal level – understanding the motivations behind participation, the pressures, individual temperament, knowledge, experiences and attitudes about your sport or profession. Training is individualized to each performer’s abilities, experience and age. Athletes/Performers gain insight into their “internal mental structures” (thoughts, feelings, patterns, reactions, beliefs) and learn to apply mental skills to maximize their strengths and enhance their focus and consistency in the face of internal and external pressures.

Self Belief and Confidence

“Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

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5 Steps to Self Belief

You can enhance your self-belief

Believing in your self can be learnt. Becoming aware of and changing self limiting thoughts and beliefs is an important first step in changing how you view yourself.

Challenge your inner critic

Your inner critic has developed over the years from your life experiences. Often times this means what we think and believe has not been examined and may persist in limiting our potential. Explore where some of these ideas about yourself come from. Reevaluate.

Turn a weakness into a strength

Acknowledge a weakness without judgement. Consider who you would be without that weakness and begin to think and act consistent with that vision.

Learn from your mistakes

Mistakes provide opportunities to enhance your knowledge and skill. Focus on the lessons.

Develop a winning mindset

Combining your knowledge, skill, motivation with mental toughness and practice will help you develop a winning mindset. Focus on your strengths and visualize the outcomes that you want to achieve.