How to Keep Your Composure After You Make a Mistake in Sports

In this episode, you will learn how you can let go of mistakes during a game!

After you make a mistake during a game, you’re faced with two options: let the mistake go or hold on to it and carry it with you as the game goes on.

The easiest choice is the second one. But the helpful choice is the first. 

If you don’t want to make a mistake again and again, you have to learn how to let it go. Now, of course, that’s a lot easier said than done. But with the help of a strategy, it’s possible.

What you want to do first is accept the mistake. I know, not the most attractive idea, but it’s necessary. Then ask yourself two consecutive questions: is this helpful and what would be helpful?

Those questions interrupt the pattern of negative thinking that occurs after a mistake and gets your mind focused on what you need to be focused on and doing to play your best moving forward.

Put this strategy into practice and begin working on building your ability to let go of mistakes during a game. 

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