by Jonathan Edwards - Olympian | Blog, Your Mental Foundation
In last week’s article, we talked about embracing disappointments and getting your hopes up. This week we are going to talk about falling in love with the work of becoming an elite athlete and not falling in love with your results. “I fell in love with the...
by Jonathan Edwards - Olympian | Blog, Your Mental Foundation
You can’t have success without disappointment. Sometimes major disappointment. Prepare for it. “One’s best success comes after their greatest disappointments.” – Henry Ward Beecher If you’re like most athletes, you’ve come from parents who love you and want...
by Jonathan Edwards - Olympian | Blog, Your Mental Foundation
Understanding how this sports experience will fit into the rest of your life is vitally important. Many athletes and their parents lose track of the fact that the time spent pursuing sport can and should set you up for everything else in your life. “You can’t...
by Jonathan Edwards - Olympian | Blog, Mindset and Motivation, Parenting
People are quick to spew statistics to completely demoralize you like: only 3-5% of high school athletes get to play sports in college. Or that the odds of getting a scholarship are really small and you shouldn’t “get your hopes up”. Or my favorite, “Only three men in...
by Jonathan Edwards - Olympian | Blog, Mindset and Motivation, Parenting
You may hear parents and athletes overwhelmed with this whole sports process say that sports should be “fun.” Countless studies have been done that interview young kids in sports, and every one of them will tell you that the number one reason they play is that sports...
