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Do you agree? Is confidence a big part of your game? Perhaps you have said to yourself, Today I will play a better game and have more fun. You may even have promised that you won’t question yourself so much, that today is going to be better, that you are going to be better. Then the heavy old mind games come right back. If only you had a solution to the self-questioning, the self-doubt, the anxiety, the exhaustion, the anger, the sadness, the fear, the hurt, and the guilt . . .

Perhaps you saw yourself being a much better player. You may have committed heart and soul to raising your stats and getting better results. Then you found that your nervousness or anxiety got in the way of playing the game of your life.

Doesn’t it sometimes get exhausting to be inside your head so much?

Perhaps you doubt yourself, question yourself, so much that you make stupid mistakes. Perhaps you’ve gotten frustrated with your coach or angry at your teammates as your mood crashes down.

Do you ever feel guilty after a game, feeling as if you have let down yourself or your family or your team? Does the fear that you might never reach your full potential grate on you? Perhaps you have felt that your progress has been one step forward and one step back. You get a taste for the good feelings, the good results . . . and then, like water through your fingers, that progress slips away.