Confidence and Motivation

Sometimes an athlete's motivation can take a knock or an athlete finds it difficult to get motivation back after a lost game or competition.
Guess what? Yes that's right, it is all about your thoughts and behaviours. Change those and you're onto something.

Motivation is best if it comes from inside yourself, the most important form is enjoyment. People may not really believe this to be true but most importantly if you enjoy what you are doing you will be positively motivated. Much more so than if prizes or winning is your motivational focus. But it can be difficult to work this out on your own because of course you want to win, and you should, BUT if we're motivated by self-improvment it's all the better for our performance and ultimately our winner chances in any case!
Now a sport psychologist, like me your on-line psychologist, can help you master self-motivation and get back to enjoying and performing at your best.

Confidence is linked with motivation in my opinion, and many other acedemics in this area. You must be motivated to work and have confidence in your abilities. If you're lacking in confidence your motivation can drop. It can be hard to regain your self-confidence but with a little clarity and a technique I like to used called rational emotional therapy (posh description for reality check) it can be done.

Obviously each athlete is different and there are things a psychologist can help you with you may not even be aware of, but you work together and ultimately work toward giving you the capability to regulate your motivation and confidence without the help of a practitioner. I want you to Be Your Best.

If you want help with your motivation or confidence please contact me:
ashleigh drew - contact ashleigh.drew@yahoo.co.uk
Be your Best!

Sometimes when it comes to the mental side of the game athletes, performers wonder what they can do, or how they can change their minds to help their physical performance.

The truth is they are intrinsically linked, that is to say, you can't perform without using your mind. Just think about it: Perhaps you are a nervous player. You get nervous not because of your physical ability - you practise everyday if you are professional - so there is no reason you would get nervous before a competition, if you've practised for competition all week and you know you can do it. So what is it? It's how you THINK about competition that makes you nervous.

Even then the anxiety or nerves you may have before a game are effected again about how you feel about being nervous. For example I know Rugby Union players who are sick before they go on pitch. For these guys though, their nerves are positive, they have to get this nervous to be in their 'Optimal' performance zone. They go out on pitch and play their best game of rugby.

However for others, those nerves can hamper concentration or focus and ultimately performance. But they needn't....

So what can we do about that? Well changing the way you think about these things can be easy with a bit of help from your on-line Psychologist. By helping you go through and shape new thoughts around nerves and improve your competition performances so nerves are never a problem again! 

Now if you are an athlete and dedicated to your physical practise you will understand that the mental training we will go through requires a similar dedication. And once you master your mental game, there will be no stopping you.

ashleigh drew - contact ashleigh.drew@yahoo.co.uk

Be your Best!