• Do you know specifically how to prepare yourself like champions do, both physically and mentally?
• Would you like to maximize your performance, improving the return on the personal and financial investment you are making in your sport?
• Are you mentally at the top of your game every time you take on the challenges specific to your sport?
• Would you like to learn how to mentally program yourself to shift into your personal ZONE of best effort performances – on command?

Learn what it takes for you to consistently give your best effort.  My clients receive support and instruction that helps them control their thoughts, emotions, and performances. Core concepts and individualized activities are combined to create a personally designed mental skills training program that produces results.

Initial Assessment – Awareness Empowers Growth

An analysis of your current mental skills and the most effective direction for your mental conditioning comes from an interview and at least one written assessment.

Core Concepts

You will develop these skills to an elite level (see details below):

• Focus
• Self-Control
• Routines
• Imagery
• Confidence/Trust
• Goal-Setting
• Perspective
• Positive Self-Talk

Tracking Progress

Using your personal monitoring system, you’ll find a new level of awareness and focus in your training and competition. This will lead to effective adjustments and longer periods of being “in the zone” as you accelerate the process of approaching your potential.

An investment of both time and money into this process is required.

Basic Package: 6 meetings for $450

Follow Up Packages: 6 meetings  - $360

Each meeting lasts between 50-80 minutes.  Homework assignments are expected to be completed before attending.

Slump Buster:  You may choose a single meeting for this purpose with Coach Traub for $150.  This consultation will clarify for you the folly of your ways the led you to this current “slump” and provide you with strategies to perform better immediately. Satisfaction guaranteed or you get a 50% rebate.

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If you want to combine mental skills training with physical skills training in baseball, Coach Traub is available for lessons at the following rates:

• Free initial phone consultation

• First Meeting - $100 (60-75 minutes)

• A 1-year contract for training and advising is $2,000

The one-year consulting contract includes 32 weekly one-hour or more training sessions for both physical (baseball/softball) and mental skills.
It also includes homework assignments, retainer rights for 24/7 phone and e-mail availability, and college search advising and promoting (when appropriate).

Coach Traub is also available for small group baseball lessons at the hourly rate of $150.  This rate is good for group lessons (up to 8 athletes at a time).

CORE CONCEPTS DETAILS

Focus – Do you clutter your mind with too much thinking while you’re trying to perform?  Focusing on the task-at-hand is a vital performance skill that can be learned with quality practice.  You’ll learn to block out regrets about the past and worries about the future, recognize the correct present-tense object for your focus, and find that “trust mode” where you can truly give your best effort.

Self-Control – You must first control yourself if you are going to control your performance. You’ll learn to recognize when you are off track and gathering strategies for getting you back on track.

Perspective – A performance-self-concept link is extremely damaging to the quality of a performance. Anyone who's ever "choked," meaning that they played below their potential when they perceived that it was a particularly important situation, should realize this. Worry is always bad for performance, so if you're worried what others will think of you, you're going to be partially distracted from the task-at-hand. Your training in this area will show you the perspectives that allow for the greatest performances. Then you will be given evidence to support the truth of these beliefs. Ultimately, your perspective on performance is your choice, but if you are competing with less that all the information available, you may be fighting an unnecessary uphill battle.

Routines – Wouldn’t it be great if you could GUARANTEE giving your best effort every single time?  You can.  By using your experiences effectively, you can build a routine that will make sure that you are physically and mentally at the right place at the right time.

Imagery – The mind/body connection is powerful, but communicating from mind to muscle can be extremely difficult. You will learn about the impact imagery has had for many famous athletes, then many strategies for improving all types of your imagery.  We will discuss how you can use imagery before, during, and after your performances.  Then you will decide if, how, and when to use imagery most effectively for you.  Hint: the ‘if’ is probably going to be a resounding “YES!”

Confidence/Trust – Is there anything more important for you to perform the way you are capable of than to trust yourself? To do this, you must not get in your own way by thinking too much and you must be confident. Great athletes consciously control their confidence level. They don’t lose confidence after mistakes and they do gain it after successes. These are skills that you can and will learn to master.

Goal-Setting – You have some big goals already.  You want to prevent frustration at the distance yet to go and prevent complacency from destinations already achieved.  Certainly, you are already demonstrating goal-directed behavior often, but mounds of research indicates that writing down SMART and Controllable goals will help you maintain goal-directed behavior more consistently. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Formal goal-setting will also ensure that each step is headed in the right direction.

Positive Self-Talk – Self-Talk is not optional… you’re going to think. The question is whether your thoughts are going to help you perform or hinder you.  This is where the rubber meets the road, and everyone has some good and some bad habits.  You will identify the good ones so you can keep going with them and identify the bad patterns so you can make an adjustment. Isn’t this exciting? Your potential is absolutely astounding, and training your brain to move towards the things you want can help you fulfill that potential.