Mindset notes
Bring it back to your sport.
Take one idea, connect it to a moment in your sport and decide what you want to practise next.
When training and competition feel different
You’ve done it before.
What changes when it matters?
You may feel comfortable with a skill in training, then find yourself checking every movement in competition. Start with a specific example rather than judging your whole performance.
What was different: the audience, the result you wanted, the time to decide, or what you were telling yourself? Pick one useful cue from training and rehearse bringing your attention back to it.
A question to take into training: what helps me commit to my next action?
After a mistake
One moment doesn’t have to follow you into the next.
A missed chance can leave your attention on what has already happened. The next part of the game still needs you.
Choose a short reset you can practise: acknowledge the mistake, take a comfortable breath and name the next task. Return to the action you can influence now. After the session, make time to reflect on what you can learn.
A question to take into training: what will tell me it’s time to reset?
Beyond the result / Be, Do, Have
What does a confident competitor do today?
A title, a personal best or selection can be a meaningful goal. But the result alone doesn’t tell you how to approach today’s training.
Try working backwards. What kind of competitor do you want to be? What actions would express that in your preparation, your decisions and your response to setbacks? Choose one action you can practise, whether or not the result goes your way.
A question to take into training: what can I do today that matches the competitor I want to become?
Have a particular moment in mind?
Talk to John about the pattern in your own sport and the support that might fit.
