by Carrie Cheadle | Feb 19, 2013 | Endurance Athletes, Life Lessons
When you are privileged enough to call yourself an athlete (and you may count yourself in this category even if you question am I an athlete?), you can be sure that at some point you will experience a big disappointment on the day of a race. No one had reason to feel...
by Carrie Cheadle | Feb 5, 2013 | Get Confident, Life Lessons, Peak Performance
Perfectionism is a hot topic to explore in sport psychology. When you’re working with athletes that are striving to be the best in the world, how can you tell them that perfectionism isn’t something they should be trying to achieve? Could an...
by Carrie Cheadle | Oct 22, 2012 | Get Confident, Life Lessons, Peak Performance
When it comes to sport psychology and working on your mental game, I have to remind people that first and foremost, there are some realities to how we operate. In fact, we are animals before we are humans, and we are humans before we are people. And believe me, when...
by Carrie Cheadle | Aug 13, 2012 | Achieve Your Goals, Get Motivated, Life Lessons
Last week an incredible feat was accomplished. The robotic explorer “Curiosity” endured an incredible journey to safely land on Mars. “Curiosity” travelled over 350 million miles. At the end of the 8 ½ month long journey, once it hit the top of the atmosphere, this 1...
by Carrie Cheadle | May 10, 2012 | Life Lessons, Peak Performance
Have you ever noticed that sometimes you have a hard time letting things go? You made a mistake or wish you had done something differently and you obsess about it, driving yourself crazy, and no matter how much pain and angst it causes you, somehow you just...
by Carrie Cheadle | Feb 16, 2012 | Get Confident, Life Lessons, Peak Performance
The topic of humility has been coming up in my work a lot lately. It first came up while I was reading the book Assault on Lake Casitas, by Brad Alan Lewis. The book is the story of Lewis’ journey to the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympic Games where he competed in...
by Carrie Cheadle | Dec 14, 2011 | Get Motivated, Life Lessons
Not too long ago I sent out a survey to my email list asking for feedback on what topics people would like to hear more about in the Mental Skills Monthly Tips they receive – as well as what they would like to read about on my blog. I got so many amazing...
by Carrie Cheadle | Oct 25, 2011 | Get Motivated, Life Lessons
This blog post has been inspired by the words of others; chance encounters that have provided me with some pearls of wisdom that I mulled over until I extracted the lessons from them so I could share them with all of you. Most of the time I’m writing for...
by Carrie Cheadle | May 13, 2011 | Endurance Athletes, Life Lessons
If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, some of you may know that I recently spent 12 days in Athens, Georgia to hang out for Speed Week to do a little work, have a little fun, and watch my husband race in between! (For those of you who might not know, Speed Week is...
