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👤 Dr. Jim Taylor | 📅 June 26, 2025

6 Keys to Making Mental Training Like Your Physical & Ski-race Training

In today’s installment of Meet My Partners for 2025, I introduce you to Razor-Tune, an electric ski edge tuner. If you’re a ski racer, the parent of a ski racer, or just a committed skier, you know the importance of sharp edges. In the old days, skiers used a file and stone to sharpen their […]

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👤 Dr. Jim Taylor | 📅 June 12, 2025

Four Essential Lessons for Triathlon, Sports, & Life

I just returned from the USAT Multisport National Championships in Omaha, where I raced three events: the Super-sprint, Sprint, and Mixed-Relay. It was a demanding and deeply fulfilling experience—full of intensity, adversity, and insight. While I love racing, what keeps me coming back isn’t just the competition. It’s the life lessons that emerge on the course—powerful […]

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👤 Dr. Jim Taylor | 📅 June 9, 2025

Mindto Website is LIVE!!

As many of you know, I’m a co-founder and Chief Content Officer of Mindto (as in, put your “mind to”), a start-up whose goal is to develop a human-driven, AI-assisted app that empowers athlete performance, well-being, and mental health. I am thrilled to announce that our website just went live. This is a major milestone […]

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👤 Dr. Jim Taylor | 📅 June 2, 2025

Ditch the Expectations—and Race Your Best

With USAT Multisport Nationals happening this week in Omaha (I’ll be racing three events myself!), I wanted to share something that could make or break your performance on race day: expectations. At first glance, expectations seem positive. The dictionary defines them as “a strong belief that something will happen in the future” or “a belief […]

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👤 Dr. Jim Taylor | 📅 May 28, 2025

Triathlon Imagery: The Mental Tool You Should Be Using

Triathlon is a brutal sport! It’s not just one sport—it’s three. And that means your body and brain are constantly being pushed to the edge. You’re not just fighting physical fatigue—you’re battling heat, hills, pain, nerves, and unpredictability. So, here’s the big question: What if there was a mental tool that could help you train […]

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👤 Dr. Jim Taylor | 📅 May 12, 2025

Three Race-day Goals for Triathlon Success

Defining success in triathlon is a difficult task. When I ask most athletes and coaches how they define success, it is usually in terms of results, whether wins, rankings, or times. For others, though, success is being healthy and fit, enjoying their races, and just finishing. Though, admittedly, results are the ultimate determinant of success […]

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