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
What Causes Sports Anxiety?
Have you ever dealt with anxiety before or during games? To the point where your hands were shaking, you had that intense feeling of nervousness
How to Handle Nerves at the Beginning of a Season
Do you get really nervous at the beginning of a season? Do you feel more expectations and notice that you typically don’t perform as well
How to Use Mental Reps to Train While You’re Injured
One of the most frustrating and difficult parts about being sidelined with an injury—other than just not being able to play in the game—is not
5 Confidence-Draining Habits Athletes Need to Break
When we play with confidence, we play with trust in ourselves to go out there and perform well. This leads to free play. It leads
How to Handle Self-Doubt Before and During Games
In this article, we’re going to go over how to handle self-doubt both before and during games. The way we are going to look at
3 Mental Toughness Exercises to Use Before Your Next Game
In this article, I’m going to go over three mental toughness exercises you can use before your next game. Hey there, I’m Eli Straw, a
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