by Carrie Cheadle | Jul 10, 2017 | Achieve Your Goals, Get Motivated, Peak Performance
We have all had experiences of wanting something to be different, but staying stuck in the same place. Wishing things would be different doesn’t make change happen. Wanting things to be different doesn’t make change happen. There are many factors...
by Carrie Cheadle | Jun 6, 2017 | Achieve Your Goals, Get Confident, Get Motivated, Peak Performance
Sometimes in life, things don’t go as smoothly or easily as we would like. In fact, the longer I’m on this planet, the more I realized that MOST of the time things end up playing out a little bit differently than we expected. When you come up against a...
by Carrie Cheadle | Mar 13, 2017 | Achieve Your Goals, Get Motivated, Peak Performance
Motivation is one of the most researched topics in the field of sport psychology and also one of the most complex. It’s complex because not only do people have various underlying motivations for why they choose to participate in their sport and how driven they...
by Carrie Cheadle | Feb 15, 2017 | Achieve Your Goals, Mental Training School
One of the pitfalls of goal setting is setting too many goals. There are so many things you want to accomplish, so many things you are excited about, that you try setting goals for ALL of them and end up accomplishing none of them. When you try to give yourself too...
by Carrie Cheadle | Jan 9, 2017 | Achieve Your Goals, Get Motivated, Peak Performance
Is grit something we should really be talking about? Is this a concept that has its own legs – or is it just the latest buzzword for “mental toughness”? I gotta be honest – I kind of ignored the whole concept for a while. I ignored it until a friend and colleague of...
by Carrie Cheadle | Dec 13, 2016 | Achieve Your Goals
I am a goal driven person. I gain a tremendous amount of pleasure and satisfaction from setting goals and then figuring out how to work towards achieving them. In fact, sometimes I have to remind myself that I don’t always have to be striving for something, and...
by Carrie Cheadle | Jul 25, 2016 | Achieve Your Goals, Get Confident, Life Lessons, Peak Performance
This is a picture of me. I’m looking slightly stunned, helmet askew, and standing on top of what I like to call, “The Green Monster”. I can’t remember what it’s actually called, but I remember the experience vividly. It was last summer, at Diabetes Training Camp...
by Carrie Cheadle | Jan 18, 2016 | Achieve Your Goals, Get Motivated
It’s one thing to set a goal. It’s another thing entirely to achieve it. How many articles do you think have been written on goal setting? How many times do you think the words “How to Make Your New Year’s Resolutions Stick” appear in cyberspace? (That exact...
by Carrie Cheadle | Dec 20, 2015 | Achieve Your Goals, Get Confident, Get Motivated, Life Lessons
I love the renewal I feel with the coming of a new year; new hopes, new possibilities, new dreams. Or maybe old dreams, newly realized. I recently had one of my dreams realized – I got myself back to Petaluma. Life sometimes takes you in directions you don’t...
