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So what action do you need to take to be your own powerful head coach? Learn to monitor your self-talk.

Case Study: Powering Up the Play

“I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing toward being a champion.”

BILLIE JEAN KING,

OFTEN WE CAN reach a plateau and find ourselves unable to make a breakthrough, or we can even find that we no longer enjoy ourselves as much anymore—especially after many, many months of training and focus on a particular project. An incredibly talented golfer I worked with, Ryan Weatherall, learned that self-awareness could turn his game around. I trained Ryan to concentrate on how he spoke to himself, on his internal self-communication.

I had heard Ryan talk about what he didn’t want when talking about his goals. He didn’t want to waste his time on the golf course, he didn’t want to miss his shot, he didn’t want to let his family down, and he didn’t want all his hard work to go to waste.

The trouble with Ryan was that his mind had to think about what he didn’t want in order to focus on what he did want. Ryan’s mind was overworked focusing on wasting his time on the golf course, missing his shot, letting his family down, and all his hard work going to waste.