Testimonials

“I dug a hole, the semester previous to this winter semester I had a 0.01 GPA. So, getting back into school and further making the team again seemed unlikely, but not impossible. I set goals and objectives to get back into school and focused my energy on getting into a major. I transferred my athletic skills into the classroom and now my GPA in my major classes is a 3.56. I still have lots of work to do but life is no longer doom and gloom, rather blissful with green pastures to farm reaping benefits.”

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Student Athlete

“…When I began using the workbook I was a walk-on who wanted to make my way onto the team. It was the spring before my sophomore year and I had changed positions. That usually isn’t a good thing because it means you weren’t that great at the last position you were playing. Fortunately, I had a pretty good work ethic so the new position was looking like another opportunity. I started using the workbook to develop the skill sets I needed to play the positions. I focused only on a couple of things each day and I quickly passed an athlete that was on scholarship. My goal was to be in the two deep and I was playing with the ones because of an injury, but I did feel like I earned it.

The following year I continued to work on the workbook as I played and I eventually got the fall camp before my junior year. Using the workbook I was able to gain 20 lbs and get a 3.5 GPA. Before that fall camp I found myself as the starter, what I had been working for. I would definitely attribute it to the focus that the workbook makes you have when you only focus on a couple of things.

During the season I got injured. I broke my thumb and had to sit out a few games. I also sprained my ankle pretty good early on in the season and it has been a nagging injury ever since. It would have been easy to feel sorry for myself and maybe even say that I didn’t want to play with my injuries, but the workbook even helps you when you are injured and trying to get back into the swing of things. Instead of turning my focus to skill sets I would work on getting better and watching film. I would use vicarious experience to get myself better while I was injured which I found to be very effective. I came back from my injury three weeks later, better than ever.”

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Football

“Using the performance journal has really changed my attitude and outlook as I work through recovery and rehab after surgery. Before using the performance journal I felt very unmotivated, impatient, and discouraged. I felt like there was nothing that I could control at the moment, so why should I try at all? I felt like the only thing that I could do was simply wait for time to pass. This attitude caused me to worry whether or not I would be able to heal and get back in shape and back to the performance level that I once was at. I didn’t think there was anything that I could do to change this. It wasn’t because I didn’t have goals — I still held on to all of my pole vaulting goals and aspirations. From what we discussed in class, I discovered that because of my injuries, the objective that once motivated me and gave me a good focus was now so far into the future that I couldn’t do anything about it and thus, I felt like I had no control over the outcome.”

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Track & Field

“As I started to write in the mental strength journal and take it seriously, I felt more focused on what I wanted to accomplish. My goal three or four years down the road is to be playing professional football. In order to make this goal happen I will need to wrok very hard. It is very difficult to think about all the things that must be done in order to reach my goal. I have things that need to be accomplished daily, weekly, and monthly. This journal has helped me put what needs to be done down on paper so I can see it and be able to focus on what needs to happen each day.”

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Football