You're listening to the Confidence Podcast. Your favorite coaching podcast oozes in with motivation, inspiration, and confidence to help you boldly take action on your dreams.

On your host, Trish Blackwell, internationally recognized Confidence Coach, best-selling author, and founder of the College of Confidence, the most encouraging place on the Internet.

I teach go getters in life, how to take their thoughts captive, how to step out of the shadows of self-doubt, and how to courageously step into their purpose with confidence.

It's time to pump our confidence muscles and train our thoughts y'all. Let's get started.

Hey guys, it's Trish Blackwell, your host of the Confidence Podcast, your Confidence Coach.

I'm smiling because I love today's topic. It is episode 489. We're talking about sports confidence today, sports hacks for any athlete because here's what I need you to know.

Sports confidence is the key to supreme athletic performance, but most athletes don't know how to tap into their most confident athletic self.

In this episode, we're going to explore the 10 confidence mistakes that keep athletes from peak performance.

And by the way, I'm raising my hand as a previous elite athlete who struggled in this area, who experienced the extremes of confidence and then lack of confidence in my performance.

And we're going to talk about creating how these mistakes that we fall into very naturally as driven go getters, how they create self-doubt and very unhelpful self-pressure.

And the more pressure we put on ourselves, the more we end up actually underperforming.

And then I want to teach you 10 confidence hacks that the top athletes in the world employed to train their brains as successfully as they train their bodies.

As always, you can get the full show notes at trishblackwell.com, forward slash, well, the podcast episode. So this is 489. So you'll go forward slash 489.

We're going to talk about, like I said, the 10 confidence mistakes that plague athletes and here's the deal.

These mistakes aren't just like a whoopsy daisy. They rob you of your full potential.

I'm going to talk about the performance pressure hoax. This hoax that we buy into that, we have to take it very, very seriously to be very, very elite.

And the dangers of caring too much. I think you've heard me say this before, but at one point in my athletic career, I had a coach who said, all right, Trish, you have this crazy amount of talent.

It's crazy potential, but here's the problem. You try too hard. So here's what I need to do. I need you to try to stop trying and I was like, well, what?

How do I do that? How would I try to stop trying to hard? Why? And it's because I had a wrong strategy. I'm going to, if you have ever struggled with trying too hard and caring too much and that that creates doesn't help you get the result you want.

We're going to talk a little bit about that and how to incorporate that and create change. We're also going to talk about self trust in the athlete and mistrust of self in the athlete and how to nurture self trust or better performance.

But more importantly, I'm going to give you the 12 confidence hacks and high performance habits that athletes do to elevate their confidence.

Now, how do I know what they do? Well, because I'm coaching a lot of really, really high achieving athletes and we're going to get a little bit into that. But the spread is professional.

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