I recently welcomed a new crop of talented young bowlers to Team Canada’s youth teams. While there were a few returning faces, we did what we always do in our first team meeting: review the Traffic Lights mindset system. Since this is my first blog of 2026, and possibly your first time reading one ofContinue reading “Getting Started with Traffic Lights”
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Mental Strategies to Defeat Performance Anxiety
Self-doubt is a pretty normal thing. Asking yourself “Can I do this?” is generally a healthy response to a new and/or stressful situations. Humans evolved to be able to evaluate risk. The problem comes when our lizard brain – the oldest part of our neurological programming – is trying to sense threats in a worldContinue reading “Mental Strategies to Defeat Performance Anxiety”
Positive Triggers: Shifting from Yellow to Green
A couple of weeks ago, I was working in a coffee shop and took a picture of my blank blog editor screen. I posted it with a question: “Is this an opportunity or a threat.” I meant it as a tongue-in-cheek reference to the glass-half-empty-or-full idiom. My point was that a blank page could beContinue reading “Positive Triggers: Shifting from Yellow to Green”