Welcome to our exciting April!! I am very pleased to share with all of you that we have re-designed our website. Dr. Alex Diaz Consulting is now a more integrated webpage aimed at learning strategies to manage stress. Regardless of whether you are an individual dealing with life stressors, an athlete hoping to reach your peak performance, a student having to meet high academic expectations, or a professional business person wanting to find strategies to …
Top athletes come totally prepared before competition. They worked on improving their skills, ate properly and immersed themselves in mental and behavioral rituals that help them push distractions aside. They don’t just show up and hope for the best. Instead, they are well aware that competition starts way before the referee blows the whistle. To meet their expectations, they set goals that address each one of the areas they need to focus on: skills, nutrition, …
As Jerry Lynch indicates, there are two kind of athletes: those who went through a slump period and those will go through a slump period. It is inevitable that, sooner or later, athletes eventually go through periods in their careers where their learned skills are abandoning them. They put in a lot of time improving their skills only to end up scratching their heads wondering how long this down period will last. It is quite …
In preparation for the upcoming Super Bowl 50, TV commentators asks athletes, coaches, and professionals for their experiences playing championship matches and they all emphasize that, although it is just a game, they cannot completely put aside the emotions that come up when such a pivotal game is on the line. Any athlete who picked up a sport from a young age, whether it is football, golf, tennis, or any other sport, has at one …
If there is a common trait that all successful athletes have is that of feeling confident about their abilities. They all carry that intangible mystique that, when it matters most, it shows with no fail. Somehow, they are able to perform best when it really matters as they are able to successfully achieve in tough situations. Their seemingly effortless demeanor may be more natural for some athletes than for others; however, what most athletes have …
