Mental Toughness & Mind Power

Short Course Respect

By |2016-03-18T06:21:00-04:00March 18th, 2016|

I hear this phrase, "just a sprint tri" a lot or the comment, "I've only ever done sprints" and I want to point out saying "just" a sprint triathlon doesn't make sense.  A sprint triathlon is a an opportunity to lay it ALL out there.  It is an endurance event.  Short course triathletes are amazing. [...]

Destroy Your Narrative

By |2016-02-09T21:04:00-05:00February 9th, 2016|

Posted a while back... a nice reminder! Sometimes you have to destroy your narrative.  My athlete mind has been holding onto anger at myself for allowing situations to drag me down last summer.  I let obstacles in life impact my training and racing.  I had a narrative.  I had a story about myself failing to [...]

Strengths Finder in Triathlon

By |2015-08-30T06:19:00-04:00August 30th, 2015|

My company had our team take a quiz & half day class on the Strengths Finder book by Tom Rath a while back.  It scores you on 34 natural talents and gives you your top 5 natural talents in order.  We were talking on how we use these in our work roles so I decided [...]

Self Coaching Lessons

By |2015-04-21T19:29:00-04:00April 21st, 2015|

Here is what I've discovered about self coaching: 1.  You get to channel your inner advisor. She is the part of your psyche that can take care of you.  You should understand her better.   We all have a caregiver part of ourselves.  She full of light, belief and self confidence.  Sometimes she's hidden deep [...]

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