HAVE YOU BEEN…
- Dwelling on mistakes leading you to be stuck in a negative cycle of focusing on what you did wrong and creating more frustration and making more mistakes.
- Focusing too much on winning which negatively affect your performance as it puts your focus on the future instead of the process and practice.
- Worrying too much about what your coach, teammates or spectators are thinking of you making you have unwanted emotions such as anxiety or sadness.
- Putting a lot of pressure on yourself to perform by creating unrealistic expectations that are setting you up for failure before you even start creating success.
- Worrying about making mistakes that could happen rather than focusing on the positives you could achieve which may hold you back and forget your game plan.
- Doubting your skills and worrying about failing in future situations. By being unsure of how you are going to play it is more likely that you will under-perform.
- Comparing yourself to others by focusing on what the opponent is doing right and what you are doing wrong will decrease your confidence and is a distraction.
- Overthinking before you compete and second-guessing your game plan can make you feel unprepared and nervous. You then start competing without the confidence you need for peak performance.
- Bringing life problems into the competition making it hard to separate regular life from sports life and therefore not focusing on the field and more likely harming your performance.
- Getting distracted by the importance of the competition feeling like you have to do something different to what you usually do will be causing you extra nerves.
