Tag Archives: Goal type


Wait…WHAT was I just thinking?? | 4 types of Focus | Tomas Adalsteinsson


We loved what he said about failure so much that we had him back to talk about focus!  Meet Tomas Adalsteinsson, the founder of TheSportBrain.com. Tomas joins us to talk about his graduate work on sustained attention for athletes.  You WILL lose your focus in competition, as the research shows that optimal focus only exists for 1-4 seconds.  We fluctuate in various degrees of focus throughout all of our activity. Your focus moves and switches all the time between the following four types...

If your goal is to win, you probably already lost. | Dr. Rob Bell


Wait!  Why would you set a goal to not win?  The short answer is that’s what is called an outcome goal.  There are many things that can keep you from achieving your goal that are outside your control.  The best kind of goals are performance, and process goals, but I’ll let Sport Psychology Pro Dr Rob Bell tell you about that… Dr. Bell is a professor, and the sport psychology consultant for Ball State University, and has credentials on the PGA...

Goal Setting vs. Goal Doing


I went to a seminar once where a guy who had written a best-selling book conducted a really insightful experiment with the crowd. There were about 800 people in the room. He asked everyone who had heard of his book to stand up. Of course, the whole place was on their feet… Then he asked the people who had bought his book to remain standing. Half the crowd sat down. “Remain standing if you read even one chapter of my...