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Coping With Sports Fear With Easy Reminders

By Mental Toughness Trainer, 07/06/18, 12:00PM PDT

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I teach that there is no such thing as failure. It doesn’t exist except as a useless story in your mind. Get rid of the idea of failure and you get rid of the fear of it.

As a mental toughness trainer who has worked with thousands of athletes, youth and adult, by far the biggest problem is fear of failure. I have looked at and examined this concept and the word and have determined it to be non-useful for sports and performing and therefore, my definition of it is:

“A destructive word others use to describe events when they don’t achieve their goal or outcome.”