The following post is an excerpt from the Second Edition of The Tennis Parent’s Bible
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IMPROVING CONFIDENCE AND LOW SELF ESTEEM
Regardless of the reason, athletes who begin to doubt their true capabilities need to flip their negative outlook before their negative beliefs ruin their practices and performances.
“A positive outlook is a prerequisite to positive performances.”
A lack of confidence can stem from a singular reasons or a combination of reasons. As always, solutions are dictated by their cause.
Typical Causes of Low Confidence:
1) Athlete has slacked off in their weekly training regiments…
2) Athlete has not trained efficiently (quantity not quality)…
3) Athlete is injured, sick or are returning to the game after an injury or sickness…
4) Athlete’s pessimistic attitude is getting the best of them…
5) Athlete has under-performed in recent competition and lost a few close matches to players they believe they should beat…
Rekindling confidence starts with a rebuilding of the belief systems.
“Confidence is a progressive spiral of numerous positive inputs which leads to a positive attitude…
which in turn leads to new positive actions that leads to positive results.”
