228: Tryout Anxiety

The Teen Life Coach

Kids & Family

4.6 • 689 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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It's tryout season! Tryouts cause a lot of anxiety and nervousness. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced competitor, tryouts can make everyone nervous. This week on the podcast I talk about three things you can do to help with nervousness when it comes to trying out for things. On the fence about whether or not to even try out? I give some advice on that too. Find help with teen anxiety here: https://www.theteenlifeschool.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast. I'm Coach Sammy and I am so glad you are here.
0:11.8	The teen years can be fun and exciting, but also filled with self-doubt, insecurities, and lots of
0:19.8	frustration. I am here to help you along your
0:23.6	teen journey and make sure you enjoy your teen years as much as possible. Let's get started.
0:32.9	Hey everyone. Welcome to the podcast this week. How is everyone doing? Hopefully you are starting to feel
0:40.4	settled in school if you are in school now. And if not, I hope you are enjoying your last little bit of
0:47.4	summer. The summer went by super quick for us and now we are back in the swing of all the things.
0:56.8	I've been talking to a lot of you and working with you personally and I thought this week it would be good to do a podcast on tryouts
1:02.8	and specifically when it comes to tryouts feeling nervous. Many of you are questioning whether
1:09.5	or not to even try out for things because you're so nervous
1:12.3	and I get messages from you guys like what can I do so I don't feel so nervous because I want to
1:17.2	try out for this so some of you are at one end of the spectrum where you're like still questioning
1:21.8	should I try out do I have the skills and abilities to try out but then also there's this other
1:27.3	end of the spectrum where a lot of you are super confident in your skills and abilities to try out. But then also there's this other end of the spectrum where a lot of
1:29.2	you are super confident in your skills and you maybe you know that you'll make the team, but you're
1:34.6	still really nervous. Okay. And so I just want to say that no matter what range you're in when it
1:41.1	comes to trying out for things, Like everybody feels nervous. Everybody gets scared
1:47.5	to try out for things. But people who can get to the point of embracing nervousness and not
1:54.7	letting the nervousness stop them from doing things and trying things, those are the people who are
2:00.6	going to have more opportunities, more the people who are going to have more opportunities,
2:02.8	more exciting things that are going to happen in their life. And they're just going to have
2:06.9	a bigger life. So if you are thinking about should I try out, should I not try out,
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