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👤 Dr. Jim Taylor | 📅 October 30, 2017

6 Ps for Ski Racing Success

The winter has arrived. Loveland in Colorado is open and the World Cup is already underway with races in Soelden. Hopefully, you’ve spent the off season working out in the gym, maybe on-snow training in some part of the world, and hopefully working on your mental training as well. With your first races not far […]

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👤 Dr. Jim Taylor | 📅 October 26, 2017

Vlog: Define Success for Your Young Athletes

In this week’s vlog segment, I explore the importance of helping your young athletes to define success in their sports participation. This discussion by parents with their children is so vital because the youth sports culture defines success in a very narrow and limiting way, namely, success is about winning. Of course, victory is a […]

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👤 Dr. Jim Taylor | 📅 October 23, 2017

Make Your Sports Goal Setting S.M.A.R.T.E.R.

Goal setting is a simple and practical mental tool you can use to maintain a high level of motivation in your sports participation. For some very elemental reason, people respond to goals in a very deep and personal way. The experience of setting a goal, working toward a goal, and achieving a goal has a […]

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👤 Dr. Jim Taylor | 📅 October 23, 2017

Make Your Ski Racing Goal Setting S.M.A.R.T.E.R.

Goal setting is a simple and practical mental tool you can use to maintain a high level of motivation in your ski racing. For some very elemental reason, people respond to goals in a very deep and personal way. The experience of setting a goal, working toward a goal, and achieving a goal has a […]

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👤 Dr. Jim Taylor | 📅 October 18, 2017

Vlog: Find Your Motivation Every Day in Your Sport

In my third of 12 vlog segments devoted to athletes and coaches, I show you the immense impact that motivation has on your athletic success. Motivation is the foundation of everything that you do in your athletic life because without it, you wouldn’t go to the gym in the early morning, you wouldn’t put in […]

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👤 Dr. Jim Taylor | 📅 October 12, 2017

Vlog: Develop Emotional Mastery in Your Young Athletes

In this week’s vlog segment, I focus on how sport parents can help their young athletes to gain emotional mastery in their sports lives. As I’m sure you realize, emotions play an essential role in the lives of children both on and off the field. At practice and in competition, their ability to recognize and […]

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