Learn Game Changing Sports Psychology & Mental Training
Up your game for good with one-on-one mental performance coaching. Tested & proven to help athletes build mental toughness and high level mental skills. Learn to consistently perform at your best during competition!
Learn Game Changing Sports Psychology & Mental Training
Up your game for good with one-on-one mental performance coaching. Tested & proven to help athletes build mental toughness and high level mental skills. Learn to consistently perform at your best during competition!
The Only Thing Between You And Repeatable Success On The Field Or Court Is Your Mind
Success Starts Within’s training has shown to break athletes out of all kinds of mental game challenges that keep them from performing their best in games. Leave the fear, anxiety and low confidence in last season!
What Are The Benefits?
IMPROVED CONFIDENCE
Mental coaching helps you build confidence in yourself and your skills.
INCREASED FOCUS
Gain better focus and concentration skills with proven mental training.
BUILD RESILIENCE
Learn how to be more resilient and grow from failure.
DECREASED ANXIETY
Master your nerves and overcome performance anxiety.
INCREASED MOTIVATION
A mental coach will help you understand what drives you to succeed.
POSITIVE SELF-TALK
Mental coaches empower you to take control of your internal dialogue.
Get Affordable, One-on-One Mental Performance Coaching
One-on-one mental coaching to help you build mental skills, overcome your mental game challenges, and elevate your performance.
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Eli Straw, M.S. - Mental Game Coach
Eli Straw holds a Master’s Degree in psychology with a sport psychology specialization. Combined with his expertise in clinical and applied sports psychology, Eli has extensive experience coaching, teaching, and consulting with professional, elite, college, high school, middle school, and youth athletes. Eli also has experience playing baseball at the collegiate and professional levels. Eli works with athletes of all sports and all levels and is a current member of the AASP.
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Sports Psychology Articles
How to Rebuild Confidence After a Bad Game
Confidence in sports can be quite fragile. It’s easy to have your confidence drop after a bad game or a string of bad games. However,
Go From Playing With Fear to Playing With Confidence
Have you ever found yourself playing with fear during a game? Athletes who play with fear not only underperform, but also leave games feeling frustrated
Three Mindset Shifts to Go From Good to Great as an Athlete
The mind plays a large role in your success as an athlete. Once you get to a certain skill level, it isn’t physical talent that
Mental Training During Injury Recovery
Being injured as an athlete is physically and mentally challenging. The injury itself can be painful, and the time away from your sport and the
5 Calming Exercises to Reduce Pregame Nerves
Pregame nerves are normal, but can quickly turn into a distraction and cause you to underperform depending on how you respond to them. There is
Coping With Fear of Failure in High Pressure Moments
Do you experience fear in high pressure moments during games? In those high stakes situations, are you calm and confident, or afraid of messing up?
About Success Starts Within
Success Starts Within provides sports psychology resources to athletes and performers looking to improve their mental game. Success Starts Within offers 1-1 mental performance coaching and mental training courses to help you build confidence, mental toughness, and all the mental skills you need to elevate your performance. We also provide many free resources, including weekly articles, podcasts, and videos that cover sport psychology topics to help you master the mental game. No matter your sport, skill level, or financial ability, you will find the mental training resources you need here at Success Starts Within.
Mission Statement
Make mental training and sport psychology accessible, affordable, and achieveable to all athletes.
HELPFUL DEFINITIONS
Mental Game Coach
A mental game coach helps you build mental toughness and overcome performance blocks. So much of success is mental and a mental performance coach helps you build the mental tools needed to achieve your goals.
Sport Psychology
Sports psychology focuses on helping athletes, performers, and other individuals reach their goals and achieve success. This is done by helping to cope with anxiety and other negative forms of thinking, along with teaching mental skills that will elevate performance.
Performance Anxiety
Performance anxiety occurs when you experience extreme nerves before or during an event. These feelings often result in lower levels of performance and are more severe than normal nerves.
Peak Performance
Peak performance happens when you perform to your maximum capability. This will be accompanied by feelings of confidence, effortlessness, extreme focus, and joy. This is often referred to as the “flow state.”
Mental Toughness
Measure of your mental strength, resilience, confidence, and ability to cope with difficult situations. This means you can push past failures and remain confident and positive in the face of adversity and challenges.
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