The Confident Athlete: 4 Easy Steps to Build and Maintain Confidence

By Tami Matheny

Many athletes have roller coaster confidence.  Their confidence is up when performing well and its down when performing poorly.  Matheny gives 4 basic building blocks to ensure you start and end each performance with a tank full of confidence. 
Coaches, athletes, teams and even parents will discover simple yet powerful ways

• Language: English
• Publisher: Author Academy Elite
• Release date: Jan 11, 2018
• ISBN: 9781640851726

Tami Matheny

Tami Matheny is Owner and Director of Refuse2LoseCoaching, LLC and Co-Owner of Success for Teams, LLC. As a Mental Game Coach, she works with coaches, athletes and teams to improve areas such as confidence, focus, motivation, mental toughness, leadership, teamwork, etc. Matheny has a passion for sports and how the mental game affects performance. As an athlete, coach, administrator and now Mental Game Coach, she has seen first-hand the difference mental toughness coupled with physical training translates into individual and/or team success. In high school, Tami was a tennis and basketball standout at East Rutherford High School (NC). She graduated from Lenoir-Rhyne College with a degree in psychology, while playing basketball and tennis, and earned a master's degree in sports administration from the University of North Carolina. Prior to becoming a Mental Game Coach, Matheny was one of the most successful tennis coaches in USC Upstate tennis history, and elevated the men's and women's programs to levels never seen before. With the implementation of her "Mental Toughness Program, both Spartans tennis programs produced nationally ranked individuals and teams, conference championships, and numerous individual awards. She is one of few female coaches in the nation named Conference Coach of the Year for a men's sport. Tami has worked with various recreational, club, high school and collegiate individuals and teams in numerous sports. She has been a part of many state championships, conference championships, and a National Championship. When not training others, Tami remains physically active. She has completed a handful of marathons, including the Boston Marathon and ultramarathons. Her longest race to date is a 40 miler. She is an avid cyclist, completing rides over 70 miles. Matheny continues to seek new mental and physical challenges. Connect with Tami on twitter @R2LCoaching or @successforteams. For confidence tips and motivation follow The Confident Athlete @tamimatheny.

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Endorsements

I have always stood in awe of Tami’s voice as a model and a teacher of mental confidence. She played a major role in my team’s two back to back state championships. The Confident Athlete is an enormously powerful tool and step by step guide for coaches and athletes at all levels. Tami is an expert at putting athletes and coaches in the ideal state of mind and body that allows great performances to emerge. The knowledge to be gained from this book is fantastic and essential for success!

-Toni Leopard, former collegiate and high school basketball coach

Confidence- it’s that thing that successful athletes seem to have so much of, and everyone else wants more. Tami teaches that confidence is a skill, and that everyone can have more of it. She has a knack for relating this to athletes of all levels. Use her 4-step process, and you will have a lot of ah-ha moments as your confidence grows!

-Angie Ridgeway, LPGA Tour Veteran, D1 Golf Coach

The Confident Athlete

4 Easy Steps to Build & Maintain Confidence

Tami Matheny

Copyright © 2018 Tami Matheny

All rights reserved.

Printed in the United States of America

Published by Author Academy Elite

P.O. Box 43, Powell, OH 43035

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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means- for example, electronic, photocopy, recording- without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exceptions is brief quotations in printed reviews.

Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1-64085-170-2

Hardback ISBN-13: 978-1-64085-171-9

Library of Congress Control Number: 2017917529

Dedication

This book is dedicated to the coaches and athletes I have been blessed to work with. You guys help me have the best job in the world! Thank you for allowing me to do what I love to do and helping me to evolve on this confidence journey. This is for you!

And to my cousin, Chadd Boy, who thought I could do anything. This is for you! You are missed!

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1 Confidence is Talking the Talk

Chapter 2 Confidence is Walking the Walk

Chapter 3 Talking the Talk & Walking the Walk

Chapter 4 Confidence is Seeing It To Be It

Chapter 5 Confidence is Being Prepared

Chapter 6 Talk, Walk, See, & Prepare

About the Author

Acknowledgements

As an athlete, my confidence evolved over time. I owe much of this evolution to family members who have always supported my drive in athletics, some tremendous teammates (Christi Cranford- thanks for teaching me the importance of being physically fit), and to my high school coaches (Alan Carver & Dina Smith) who both believed in me even when I didn’t.

I also want to thank some very special friends that have helped me on this journey of writing my first book: Maile Kim, Victoria Bennett, Travis Fravel, and several others that wished not to be named- you know who you are though! The encouragement and guidance of my support group has kept this book going even when I was ready to stop writing.

Introduction

"Low self-confidence isn’t a life sentence.

Self-confidence can be learned, practiced, and mastered-

just like any other skill. Once you master it,

everything in your life will change for the better..."

-Barrie Davenport

Jim had just graduated from high school and his family threw him a graduation party with all his family and friends in attendance. Jim’s rich uncle, Paul, whom he rarely saw, was at the party as well. After hearing from Jim’s mom that he was an average student, Uncle Paul thought he would challenge Jim. Look I hear you did well enough to get into college but nothing more. What are your goals in college? Jim thought for a second and said, Pretty much the same. I’ll do enough to graduate. Tell you what. Do more than enough. Graduate highest of honors and do it in 4 years, and I’ll buy you anything you want. Jim thought for a second how that didn’t sound like much fun, but he said, Ok. If I do that I’ll take a car. I’m serious and I want you to take this seriously too. What kind of car? Jim didn’t even have a car, so any would have been a step up, but he looked out at his uncle’s $85,000 sports car and said, a brand new one like yours. Deal. If you do this, I’ll be back for your college graduation party with a brand-new sports car.

To make a long story short, Jim went off to college and had his priorities straight. He started taking school seriously, which he had never done before. Every time he felt like sleeping late, he got up early. Every time he felt like cutting class, he went to class. He didn’t allow himself to hang out with friends until all work was complete. At the end of the four years, he graduated top of his class.

The night Jim graduated, his parents threw a party for him. Everyone was there except his uncle, and no car. Jim was a little bummed and disappointed in his uncle. After the party it was getting late, so he started to help his mom clean up. Jim took the trash to the garage and there it was - a brand