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CLUB ATHLETES NEED TO BE PROTECTED BY SOME FORM OF HEALTH INSURANCE.
Posted by: mindoversports on: March 17, 2012
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I was speaking to a young man who played football for a club team and found out that the team owner did not provide insurance for him to cover any kind of injuries he might experience as a result of his playing. And the thought occurred to me that perhaps “health care reform” was not [...]
HOW TO ENHANCE THE PERFORMANCE OF YOUR SPORTS TEAM BY FIRST CONVERTING THEM INTO A FOCUS GROUP AND THEN A SUPPORT GROUP.
Posted by: mindoversports on: March 12, 2012
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Every coach would like to know what his or her team is REALLY thinking, and that’s why I highly recommend a focus group as the first phase when working with a team, without coaches present. A focus group is a form of qualitative research in which a group of people are asked about their perceptions, [...]
WHAT ARE YOU COMMITTED TO MAKING HAPPEN IN YOUR LIFE?
Posted by: mindoversports on: March 6, 2012
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Write down on a piece of paper what it is in your life that you are committed to making happen. Now then, let’s look at your answer. If you think you are committed to making a certain event happen in your life – and yet have done nothing about it – then you are kidding [...]
IS THERE REALLY SUCH A THING AS “BIPOLAR DISORDER” OR IS IT ANOTHER NAME FOR LOW SELF-ESTEEM?
Posted by: mindoversports on: March 4, 2012
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The prevailing wisdom in the health profession is that when a child is bipolar (demonstrating severe mood swings and depression) that it creates, in that child a low sense of inner-self (self-esteem.) But I feel the opposite is true. From my perspective, when a child has a low sense of inner-self (self-esteem) he/she tends to [...]
EXPECTATIONS AND THE SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY.
Posted by: mindoversports on: March 3, 2012
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In 1948, Robert Merton published a paper in which he stated: “The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false conception come true. The specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual [...]
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