Confidence

Video Building Confidence – Believe in Them On one strategy for building confidence in athletes: believing in them before they're successful, so they can believe in themselves. Topics covered: why… Watch now Podcast The Zone Is a Skill, Not an Accident Jordan Lewis, founder of Headstrong Health and a former college basketball player, on mindfulness as trainable attention, the three keys to living mindfully, and why avoiding hard emotions backfires. Listen now Podcast Don’t Let This Steal Your Joy Donnie Bostwick, national champion men’s basketball coach at Oklahoma Wesleyan, on the hour after COVID cancelled the tournament, meekness as power under control, and coaching aggressive mistakes. Listen now Podcast Don’t Tell Them How Good You Are. Show Them. Rob Miller and Lori Thomas on quiet inner confidence: preparation over results, fear of failure and fear of success, self-talk swaps, and sorting the confidence builders from the confidence cutters. Listen now Booklet Confidence: A Parent’s Guide Confidence: How Parents Can Help Build a Confident Athlete" — written to help parents understand athletic confidence and their role in developing it.… Read now Booklet Playing with Confidence For athletes to read, for coaches to teach" — designed to teach an athlete how to become a confident competitor and their own confidence builder, even… Read now Article Seven Tips for a Successful Year in Sports Seven Things You Can Do to Help Your Athlete Have a Successful Educational Experience in Athletics This School Year Read now Article Parents Confidence Builder Raising a Confident Athlete (Parents) Read now Article Parents And Confidence This article by Bruce E. Brown of Proactive Coaching, from the "Parents and Coaches Working Together" collection, is an excerpt from the booklet… Read now Article Over Involved Stressed Parent This article by Bruce E. Brown of Proactive Coaching LLC, from the Parents and Coaches Working Together collection, illustrates how over involved,… Read now Article Building Confidence in Athletes This article by Bruce E. Brown helps parents recognize where their child sits on the confidence spectrum and understand their role in building it. It… Read now Article Playing With Confidence (To Coaches) For 35 years, one of my main goals was to try to instill confidence in every player. Most young children start out feeling confident, but as they age,… Read now Article Stand Strong This article by Bruce E. Brown of Proactive Coaching, from the Leadership collection, shares an extended passage from author Joseph Marshall III in which… Read now Article Risks This article by Bruce E. Brown of Proactive Coaching, from the Life Lessons collection, presents the Championship Standard of Risks under the title "Let… Read now Article Mental Toughness This article by Bruce E. Brown of Proactive Coaching presents the championship principle of mental toughness, drawing on excerpts from Compete – 13 Traits… Read now Article Endurance This article by Bruce E. Brown of Proactive Coaching, from the Life Lessons collection, explores endurance as a character trait required to achieve almost… Read now