A balance of the practice and performance mindsets are necessary to achieve your full athletic potential.
Practice is a time to strive for perfection and focus on improvement. Use self-coaching techniques to improve your ability.
Competition is a time to have complete confidence in what you have trained to do, a reactive mindset, the ability to win ugly or just get the job done without regard to how it gets done!
Think about this for a minute, have you had the wrong mindset at the wrong time before? Most likely, YES.
For in the future, take the time to make sure you have the right mindset, prior to tightening that last lace on your shoe, putting the helmet on or even getting in the water!
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