Today’s message is especially dedicated to the great Rebecca Conti – a special Happy Birthday to you.RULES FOR BEING HUMANYou will learn lessons.We’re all enrolled in a full-time school called “life on planet Earth.”Every person and incident is your teacher.There are no mistakes-only lessons.“Failures” are the stepping stones to “success.”A lesson is repeated until learned.It […]
“Human beings, by changing the inner beliefs of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.” -WILLIAM JAMES Today’s message is especially dedicated to the great David Ostermann Gartner from Slovenia. Yesterday I talked about acting differently than how you feel. This is one of the keys to peak performance in sports, and […]
“If you perform to the best of your ability, you may not always win but you will never lose.” -LAWRENCE LEMIEUX, Olympic sailing competitor Today’s message is especially dedicated to my favorite tennis twins, Sammy and Leah Schaeffer…sorry, Bryan Brothers. I remember the first time I hit with Martina Navratilova. We were playing doubles in […]
“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.” -PETER MARSHALL I spent some time at the police station yesterday.The great Sergeant Longo of the Lawrence Township Police Department is a friend of mine and he was kind enough to give me […]
“Relax don’t do it. When you want to to go to it. Relax don’t do it…But shoot it in the right direction. Make making it your intention.”-FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD Today’s message is especially dedicated to the great Matt Davis, president of the USPTA Illinois Division. One of the biggest challenges in sports is to […]
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, either way you’re right.”-HENRY FORDWe all know about the placebo effect – when a treatment or medication with no therapeutic value (i.e., a sugar pill) is administered to a person and their symptoms improve. This person believes and expects the medicine will work, therefore it does. […]
STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING. GIVE ME SEVEN MINUTES OF YOUR TIME. EVERYONE SAYS TO RELAX, OR KNOWS THAT THEY SHOULD RELAX, BUT THE REALITY IS THAT WE GET SO BUSY IN OUR EVERYDAY LIVES THAT WE DON’T MAKE TIME FOR IT. RELAXATION IS ONE OF THE KEYS IN SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY AND LIFE. IF YOU’RE TOO […]
“You either win or you learn.” -author unknown Well, last night I lost. And I learned. My doubles partner, Dan, and I had an early exit at this year’s Cryan Tennis Tournament. Should we have won? I think so. Did we deserve to win? Probably not. The Cryan tournament is like a mini-US Open – […]
“I think I can, I think I can. I think I can.” -The Little Engine That Could This blog is not about tennis or sports psychology. This blog is about giving people hope, and the cultivation of optimism. The belief that anything is possible. We are all blessed with the tools to become successful, but […]
“When your feet are firmly planted, you are stuck. Welcome change!”-ANTHONY ROBBINS Happy Birthday to my brother-in-law, the great Stanley Ho in Austin, Texas.Welcome to reality. Change is inevitable.People are changing.Our opponents are changing.Weather conditions are changing.Technology is changing.But here’s the problem…Nobody likes change. People like homeostasis.I have a feeling that something in your life […]