Confidence: Get it - Keep it!

to know that unhelpful patterns are hanging around in the first place. This isnt always simple although it does get easier. It takes discipline to pay attention to the role your mind plays in your sport day after day but it is a habit worth cultivating if you want to protect your confidence.
Keeping your confidence on the high side also means striving to have a more selective memory. We all have a bank full of memories but which ones we rehearse and become most familiar with is totally up to us. Why not put more focus on the positive ones? It may sound potentially selfdeluding but really its just good common sense. And after all those memories are all yours you were there. Youre just making a choice to use certain experiences to your advantage.
Finally when you say you want to keep your confidence be careful what you wish for. Confidence building may not always arise from pleasant circumstances. Sometimes its the toughest of moments that inform you about what you really think of yourself. Anyone can feel good when everything is going their way. But who are you when youre challenged? Every top level athlete must learn the skill of how to have good bad days. This means every time something doesnt go quite right in your training an opportunity has presented itself. You can either allow yourself to opt out I just dont feel quite right today better quit while Im ahead. Or you can grab onto it and reap the rewards Sure I dont feel great today but I am going to practice dealing with it because I dont know how I might feel before my next performance. Then you will be keeping a kind of confidence that is invaluable the confidence to perform when youre not all that confident.