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8 Key Ways to Skyrocket Your Motivation for Football Quickly
Often times when people say they lack motivation, it’s actually the feeling they miss. And that feeling is quite something… The recipes for it are various, but they most often include determination, focus, confidence, excitement, and hope. In sports psych terms, it mostly overlaps with the state of positive arousal. Feeling motivated is a powerful…
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How Top Footballers Set Goals to Improve Faster
What would football look like without goals? Bunch of people roaming around an empty field looking to kick the ball as hard as possible? While that oddly does sound like it could be fun, not having goals robs the game of its structure. And one can assume it’s only a matter of time before players…
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How to Motivate Yourself to Improve at Football
Before we get to the practical stuff, I’d like to point out a key difference between feeling motivated and motivation. Feeling Motivated vs. Being Motivated Feeling motivated is a thing of the short term, a lot closer to elation or enthusiasm. It is a cocktail of emotions and sensations we experience that makes it easier…
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How to (Never) Give Up on Your Football Dreams
“Never give up!” — from T-shirt slogans to Marvel superheroes and even Sia… Everyone seems to be in perfect alignment on this. How did such a simple, on-the-nose phrase become a universally accepted pick-me-up? It’s probably because thinking about giving up is an all too familiar feeling. And there’s a good reason why quitting is…
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Why Is Psychology Crucial for Footballers?
I think it’s safe to say the practice of sport psychology is as old as sport itself. Maybe we didn’t call it that… But even in the earliest of days, I’m sure athletes and coaches thought about the mental side of sports, albeit intuitively. What’s changed over the years is our approach. We got better…
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Psychology in Football: Why Should the Players Care?
Football is majestic. Over the last 150 years or so, it has grown from a fun game of kickabout to the world’s most popular sport. Where playing at the very top requires quite a bit of excellence. Anyone can play, but if you want to get paid to do so, the competition is staggeringly high. And…
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