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A pre-performance routine (PPR) can increase attentional focus, minimize distractions, and expedite the use of automated or well-learned behaviors.

Developing a Pre-Performance Routine (PPR) Can Help You Perform at a Higher Level

Unfortunately, in sports, there is a culture of hiding mental health problems. Student-athletes find it hard to seek help for a couple of reasons.

The Mental Health Initiatives All Student-Athletes Need to Hear

When I tore my ACL playing soccer, recovery wasn't easy and I experienced the Affective Cycle of Injury. Here's how I coped with my career-ending injury.

How I Coped with My Career-Ending Injury

Exercising is rough. Luckily, there are strategies that can be adopted which can help people overcome this challenge, get moving, and make exercise fun!

Get Off Your Ass!: 4 Mental Strategies to Make Exercise Fun

Burnout is a state of physical and emotional exhaustion due to overwork and stress that can lead to a feeling of ineffectiveness and a lack of meaning.

Are You Physically and Emotionally Exhausted? Identifying and Overcoming Burnout

We all need some mindfulness to be better employees in the workplace and avoid career burnout. These 3 mindfulness hacks will help improve work well-being!

Avoid Career Burnout with These 3 Mindfulness Hacks

Next time you want to improve something, identify the outcome you want and break it down into more manageable performance and process goals.

How to Improve Performance Through Short-Term Goals

Positive self-talk can be used to increase motivation or to help stick with a challenging task. Here are a few benefits and examples of positive self-talk.

Enhance Your Performance Through Positive Self-Talk

Finding employment for people with autism or aspergers can be difficult. Dr. Frank Gaskill shares five tips on how to get a job with autism or aspergers.

5 Pieces of Advice on Getting a Job with Aspergers or...

What is WOOP goal-setting? WOOP, developed by Gabriele Oettingen, is a form of mental contrasting and goal-setting, and stands for wish, outcome, obstacle, and plan.

WOOP Goal-Setting: The Research-Backed Method For Achieving Goals and Changing Habits

Children with differentiated learning are fine just the way they are. It’s time for the education system to change for them – not the other way around.

Why “One Size Fits All” Doesn’t Work in the Education System

What does it mean to embrace the suck? The suck is the point during a task in which you want to give up. Mental toughness is important for personal growth.

Embrace the Suck! The 4 C’s of Mental Toughness

What is self-compassion? Self-compassion, in practice, involves identifying what we’re feeling and what we need to be kind to ourselves in that moment. Self-talk is very important as well!

How Self-Compassion Can Help You Reach Your Goals

At the end of the day, the athlete who learns resiliency through sports is the one who takes away more from the game than what any trophy provides.

The Agony of Defeat: Developing Resiliency Through Sports

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