Hopefully, you’ve spent the summer getting ready for this winter of racing. If so, you should be stronger, better technically, and more mentally prepared than ever before. You’re now entering the final stage of preparations for the upcoming race season with a final period of conditioning followed by getting back on snow and tuning up for your first races.

I wanted to begin this new season of writing by giving you a refresher course on some key issues that I wrote about in past seasons. As all of my ideas built on the previous ones, you can’t just leave those from last season in the past. Rather, you have to make sure these tools are still in your toolbox before you can add to it with the psychological information and strategies I will share with you in the coming months.

1.  Prime Ski Racing should be your goal: Skiing at a consistently high level under the most demanding conditions.

2.  You need to have the right attitude about competition and success and failure before you can begin to achieve your goals.

3.  Just like with the physical side of ski racing, you can use Prime Profiling to better understand your strengths and weaknesses.

4.  Motivation is the foundation of all of your efforts to achieve your ski racing goals.

5.  Confidence is the single most important mental factor in ski racing.

6.  There are five keys to Prime Confidence.

7.  There are five things that I hate to see racers do in training.

8.  You need to know the five themes to live by on race day to ski your fastest.

9.  Learn to master frustration.

10.  5 tips for race-day success.

And for a little inspiration, these two articles about Bode and Julia and Lindsey.

So, now that you’re up to speed on some of the key topics I’ve written about in past years, let’s look ahead and see what we can do get you even more mentally prepared this season.