About Success Starts Within
Success Starts Within provides sport 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.
Eli Straw, M.S. - Mental Game Coach
Eli is a mental game coach and the founder of Success Starts Within. He holds a Master’s Degree in psychology with a sport psychology specialization. He has worked one-on-one with athletes from 6 different continents and over ten different countries on building a stronger mental game.
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.
Founder of Success Starts Within, LLC
Sports Psychology Articles
Using Routines to Increase Performance in Sports
Consistent. That’s a coveted title among athletes. Coaches want consistent players and players work to be consistent. When you’re consistent, you’re reliable. Your coaches and
How to Stop Getting Down on Yourself After Games
“I always get down on myself after a bad game.” That’s what a college athlete told me in a mental performance coaching session the other
The Importance of Learning From Mistakes in Sports
Managing mistakes is a common mental game skill I help athletes with as a mental performance coach. And I’ll be the first to tell you,
Exercise to Increase Confidence in Sports
Knowing where your confidence comes from is key to playing with confidence. And playing with confidence is the key to peak performance. When you doubt
Importance of Being Present in Sports
Being present in sports means you are in the here and now. Your mind isn’t traveling to the future, full of worries about what may
How to Know Your Strengths as an Athlete
What are your strengths as an athlete? Have you thought much about that question? Have you really taken the time to examine your game and
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