In sports, success often boils down to more than skill alone—it’s the mind that dictates the outcome when pressure is high, especially in pivotal moments. The recent Yankees game, with its infamous fifth-inning meltdown, offered a powerful reminder of one of the fundamental truths I believe in deeply: you can’t [...]
If you’re an athlete or a driven professional, you already know that performance doesn’t just happen on the court, in the gym, or at the office; it starts the night before. While hustle culture praises late nights and early mornings, real success lies in recovery. And few things fuel recovery [...]
Fear causes hesitation and hesitation causes all your fears to come true. – Sam Obitz What Sam Darnold and his agent do next will be an excellent indicator of Sam’s current headspace. If he accepts the highest paying offer that he receives vs. taking an offer that affords him [...]
In sports, success often boils down to more than skill alone—it’s the mind that dictates the outcome when pressure is high, especially in pivotal moments. The recent Yankees game, with its infamous fifth-inning meltdown, offered a powerful reminder of one of the fundamental truths I believe in deeply: you can’t [...]
One often overlooked aspect of peak performance is how you make decisions. Whenever you consciously make a decision that takes longer than an instant, you are NOT performing at your peak. In short, if you are thinking you are guaranteed to be underperforming. This is why we practice. We [...]
If you read my previous blog, ‘One of the Most Prevalent Misconceptions Among Athletes,’ you likely now realize that the belief that anger fuels improved performance is a misperception in your brain. The improved performance comes from the increased focus the anger creates in you, but the anger actually [...]
Most people experience an uptick in their performance when they become angry. I’d be rich if I had a dollar for every athlete who has not just told me but exclaimed that they play better when angry. I will be the first to admit there is some truth to [...]
My clients never have bad games/days, but they do have off games/days where they learn and get better. – Sam Obitz Most people are more concerned with expressing their feelings than they are with taking control of them. As a result, they tend to use inflammatory language, that unintentionally, causes them [...]
Losers wait for the right time to act. Winners act to make the time right. – Sam Obitz With the Final Four Men’s and Women’s collegiate basketball championship starting this weekend I decided to share something I wrote for one of my clients to share with his team before [...]
Most people erroneously think that perfection will allow them to achieve their goals. I call perfectionism ‘the curse of the above average.’ At lower levels of learning, striving for perfection can provide some benefits, but once you reach a reasonable level of competence, it begins to reduce rather than [...]
If you are looking for financial investment advice, you are in the wrong place. If you are looking for some key attributes of those most likely to thrive, ones that may help you attain more solid footing than most once the pandemic ends, please read on. How you view the [...]
Over the years I have encountered a wide variety of problems in need of solutions with my clients. It’s hard to rank them in order, but one that would certainly be at or near the top would be a lack of belief. Whether it is a team or an individual [...]