Blog | Mike Stacey Mental Skills

Mental Training for Sports: Change Your Brain

Your brain grows and changes with mental workouts, just like your body adapts to strength and conditioning. Few athletes train their...

Fast Mindfulness Practice in Everyday Life

Getting quickly, consistently untangled from troubling thoughts and emotions becomes easier with practice. Athletes frequently use two...

What's Normal When You're Not 'in the Zone?'

Get tips to deal with repetitive thoughts during games.

What is Mindfulness Like?

Being mindful is best understood through experiences, making it difficult to describe as a state or way of being. Fortunately, enough...

What is Mindfulness Like? pt. 2

Being mindful is best understood through experiences, making it difficult to describe as a state or way of being. Fortunately, enough...

Breaking Bad Habits and Repetitive Mistakes

How quickly you fix mistakes is up to you. How hard that process feels is up to you, too. Mindfulness training makes changing weak points...

Performance Anxiety on the Pitch

Ten minutes before you step onto the field, you feel butterflies in your stomach and you’re stuck in your head thinking about the...

Self-Care for Athletes Who 'Beat Themselves Up'

You’re not the only athlete who’s hard on themselves. Harsh self-criticism and the difficult emotions that coattail it are pain points...

Quit Being Hard on Yourself After Mistakes pt. 2

It’s normal to think things like: I just lost us the game, I let my team down, I shouldn’t be playing at this level. Normal doesn’t...

Quit Being Hard on Yourself After Mistakes pt. 1

One mistake is easy to brush off. Consecutive errors can be harder for you to shake. You might take more ownership of a game’s outcome...