Every handler knows the feeling: your heart is racing, your mind is buzzing, and it feels like the entire world is closing in on you. Whether it's the excitement of a big trial, the pressure of competition, or just the constant distractions of life, it's easy to feel like you're losing focus in the ...
I often annoy my coaching clients by "making them" understand why they had a good weekend. It's funny, handlers don't want to focus on the good with me; they want to talk about their problems instead. I get it - we're all trying to get better, and we believe we do that by focusing on the "challenges...
Every one of us could entertain a campfire crowd of people with tales of how our plans went awry. Memes are devoted to it: You make a plan, and God laughs. Plan is a four-letter word. Anything about the pandemic. My point is that it's a universal experience to have plans fall apart, so the focus ...
Mental stamina is on my mind. I just finished my week-long national specialty in Sacramento, plus the two cross-country (mostly) solo drives. It was a three-week journey that required a LOT of mental stamina.
At every juncture, how can we expect to perform well in our next event if we're too "spent...
