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Dive deeper into the world of mental toughness and athletic resilience with Shaun & Kelsey's expert insights.
Self Mastery: The Ultimate Competitive Advantage athlete confidence excellence greatness mastery self improvement Nov 11, 2025
By Shaun Goodsell | The Mental Edge

“The greatest opponent you’ll ever face is the one inside you.”
 
The Call to Self-Leadership
Every athlete, entrepreneur, and parent eventually realizes th...
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Helpful Belief or Enabling Delusion? athlete coaching confidence fear parent May 28, 2024

What does it mean to believe in somebody?

There are many athletes pursuing some kind of dream. This dream could be to go to college and play their sport, move on to play professionally, and finally, ...

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Confidence Defined confidence Jun 19, 2023

You hear people talk about confidence all the time. Rarely are "they" talking about confidence correctly. Let's dig in and I'll break it down for you in this video.

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Myths of Mental Skills Training #2 confidence mastery mental toughness sport psychology weakness May 18, 2018

There are many questions athletes ask when they ponder the possibility of working with a Mental Skills Coach. Sometimes, many questions can be answered by simply unpacking some of the most common myth...

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Motivationally Impaired confidence mental toughness motivation sport psychology Mar 06, 2018

I first thought of this concept when I was on the pool deck of a club swimming team working with individuals as they, one by one, jumped out of the pool for a short mental-skills coaching session. (fo...

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What is it about Confidence? athlete coach confidence mental toughness parent sports Apr 07, 2017

There isn’t a day in my coaching practice where a question about confidence doesn’t come up.

Confidence is often seen as the CORE DEFICIT when performance is sub par.

I have never heard an athlete s...

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What If? athlete confidence mental toughness psychology sports Dec 20, 2016

We ask ourselves questions all the time. Most of these questions start with the word WHAT.

“What should I wear today?”

“What should I say when asked a question?”

“What should I eat?”

We also ask o...

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Struggle and Strength athlete coach confidence mental toughtness parent sport psychology struggle Nov 21, 2016

I think most of us would agree that increasing strength is a good thing. Athletes invest countless hours training for the purpose of increasing their strength. They do this because the rigors and chal...

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Meeting the Confidence Challenge challenge confidence psychology sports Aug 17, 2016

Who of us would not want a deep, bold and stable confidence?

Unfortunately, to many people the thought of possessing this type of confidence left long ago. It could be that a significant relationship...

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Generating Purpose that Motivates confidence high performance purpose sport psychology Jun 08, 2016

Discovering purpose can be very challenging. This might be because we have a pre-determined idea of what it means to have a purpose by generating an image of a hero like Martin Luther King, Gandhi or ...

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Overcoming Fear athlete business coach confidence fear mental toughness May 16, 2016

Have you ever backed down from an opportunity because you were afraid?

Have you ever felt your heart race while doing something that evoked incredible fear?

Have you ever wished you could have more ...

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