Reflection and Deepening Module

Session #7: The Mindset in Sports Performance

Session Overview

At the halfway point of our program, we will begin to delve deeper into the five pillars of your sports progression: your mindset, your attitude, your actions, your communication, and your goal. Today, we focus on the mindset and mentality needed to excel in sports.

Session Objectives

• Help the athlete adopt a positive and resilient mindset focused on progression.
• Develop a mentality that supports performance and confidence.

THE MINDSET

Question 1

• Imagine you have achieved your sports goals. How would you describe the mindset that allowed you to succeed?
• Is this the mindset you currently have?
• If not, what could you do to get closer to it?

Question 2

• What belief about yourself could you adopt to feel happier, more confident, and determined in your practice?
• Why is this belief important to you?
• How could it transform your sports career?
• What could you do to fully integrate it?

Question 3

• Do you sometimes focus on negative thoughts or beliefs?
• If so, in what circumstances does this happen?
• What are these thoughts, and how do they affect your motivation or performance?

Question 4

• What actions could you take to maintain a healthier and more positive mindset?
• How could this improve your life and performance?
• How could you make it a daily habit?

End of Session Anchoring

Take a moment to visualize the commitments made today and imagine applying them. Feel the effects and benefits that this area of mindset brings to your sports progression.

Session Worksheet

Session #7: The Mindset in Sports Performance

1. Focus on your strengths, not your limits

As an athlete, it is essential to refocus on your strengths and rely on what makes you perform. We sometimes tend to pay too much attention to our weaknesses, while it is more beneficial to strengthen what makes us unique and competitive.

Complete the following sentences to focus on your strengths:

• a) The weaknesses and limits I have focused too much on are...
• b) My five main strengths in sports and life are...
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• 2.
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• c) If I lived with these strengths more often and more consciously, here is what would change in my life and sports performance...
• d) The way I will remind myself of my strengths to be more aware of them is...

2. Use the power of questions to focus your mindset

The right questions can steer our mind towards positive and productive thoughts.

Choose five questions that could improve your mood and strengthen your mindset each day.

The five questions I could ask myself each day to positively steer my mindset and boost my sports motivation are:

• Question 1:
• Question 2:
• Question 3:
• Question 4:
• Question 5:
• The method I will use to remind myself of these five questions each day is:

3. Control your I.A.P. (Importance Given to Thoughts)

The concept of I.A.P. involves deciding which thoughts deserve our attention and how much time we devote to them. By directing your attention towards positive and motivating thoughts, you strengthen a more powerful and resilient mindset.

Complete the following elements to better manage your thoughts:

• a) The thoughts that deserve ++ importance in my mind each day are...
• b) The next time I find myself giving too much importance and time to negative or unnecessary thoughts, I will immediately...