“In college, people really noticed all the records and accolades… but I was really hurting in terms of my identity and trying to figure out who I was as a person,” Plum shared. “There was never a, ‘How am I doing?’” The focus was always on her performance, making it easy to believe that it her whole identity.

Mental Performance Training is the practice of mental skills that improve the performance of athletes, teams, coaches, business professionals, performing artists, and so many more people who care about the outcome of the work that they do and experience stress or pressure while doing it. 

Motivational climates, what are they? For those of you who are familiar with growth mindset, this may seem similar. The important distinction is that growth mindset is, well, a mindset, whereas a motivational climate is the athlete’s perceived structure of the environment.