“My success is the outcome of my work. I am willing to do the work.” Delice Coffey

As we start 2017, it is important to assess our football mental toughness skills and techniques.

Football mental training impacts your long term career goals in a tremendous way. It’s essential that you assess your football mental skills to see where you are and set goals to get to where you want to go.

Taking time to identify and articulate your strength is critical not only for successful football career but also for the real life situations.

The knowledge gained during the self-assessment process also translates into greater football confidence and football mental toughness.

Where so many other factors in sport are very similar, it is how well the mental side is managed that differentiates the mediocre from truly great.

The needs analysis is the process of determining what qualities are necessary for the athlete, the sport, or a combination of both. Doing an in-depth need assessment allows you to identify what mental qualities are most important for you to perform well in your game.

The need assessment is part of an essential stage in learning and performance improvement effort. Needs assessment provides information the mental skills arear when one needs to focus. This information is then used by the mental game coach to create an individualized plan to address the areas of concern. Indeed the need assessment is an important part to support aspect of individual plan that will lead to overall performance improvement.

Research on sports psychology for football shows that there is often a disconnect between the goals athletes have and the effort they are putting into those goals mentally and at time physically. It’s easy to say that you want to be a successful athlete. It is much more difficult to actually make it happen. If you have this kind of disconnect it may be an indication that you need to focus on improving your mental game.

The benefits of assessing where you are and where you want to go in your football mental game are:

• It helps you to decrease mental errors and increase insight into your mental game.
• It helps improve practice and game routines
• It helps maximize your understanding of your mental skills needed to improve your game.
• It will help to increase your mental and emotional capacity to learn and overcome performance challenges in the mental game.

If you are interested in assessing where you are with your mental game so you can be MORE successful in 2017, visit my website at www.sportspsychologyfootball.com and take the mental game test.

The assessment is free and you will also get a free 15 minutes consultation session with me – A Certified Mental Game Coach and ESPN guest.

*Download the free mental game assessment and get started on Improving your Mental Game in Football