by Erica Douglas | Dec 7, 2018 | BLOG, Mindset, Team
Practice. We are talking about practice! When you think of practice, you’re probably thinking about the workout. How hard will it be? How long? How tough will Coach be? Etc. Practice, in our minds is basically a synonym for physical activity, for sweat, for an...
by Erica Douglas | Sep 11, 2018 | BLOG, Mindset
Words can be brutal. Especially the ones that fall into the category of “You’re not good enough”. “You screwed that up”. When other people say brutal things that disappoint me and question my abilities most of the time I can use it as fuel to feed my drive to succeed....
by Erica Douglas | Jun 30, 2018 | BLOG, Confidence, Mindset
My senior year of high school, things shifted for me in my sport of track and field. I was no longer the girl chasing others. I was the girl with the target on my back. I’ll never forget one meet walking up to the starting line and two other girls, two of my...
by Erica Douglas | Feb 18, 2018 | BLOG, Confidence, Mindset
She was stressed. Shoulders tense, brows furrowed. The smile and ever-present ease she brought to practice was missing. Every repetition, every drill was forced, scrutinized, never good enough. She was sobbing. Eyes scanning, hyper-aware of all around her. The control...
by Erica Douglas | Jan 10, 2018 | BLOG, Mindset
You’ve seen the saying on the back of T-shirts at sporting events. It’s probably on a poster in your locker room. Heck, you may have even retweeted a fancy graphic of the quote: “Hard work will beat talent, if talent doesn’t work hard.” You wear it, you display it,...
by Erica Douglas | Aug 29, 2017 | BLOG, Mindset
Confidence. I get asked how to build this in young women an awful lot. Can I be honest? I still struggle with confidence issues myself. Pushing my brown-eyed two-year-old along our usual trail for yet another please-fall-asleep summer evening walk, I had the blues....
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