date: 10/05/14
aim of the week: to decrease anxiety levels by increasing self-confidence through self-talk to improve performance
Hi thank you for completing last week’s tasks, after completing them you should have felt that performance had further increased in both training and competition as your anxiety levels were lower and looking at your results that is what has happened.
this week i will talk to you about how you can increase self-confidence through self-talk and how it can improve performance, im sure the blog i done in imagery helped and i have decided to tie this in with that this week as they are related and based on the same foundation.
why this will help and reason why i have chosen it?
i have decided to give this task because when i looked at you're results for the CSAI-2 questionnaire that you filled in, it shows that your self-confidence level is high, however i hope you can maintain this approach as it is vital on affecting you're individual performance. you scored 31 on you're questionnaire which shows you have a god level of self confidence. Having a low self-confidence level will automatically make you performance decrease because you don’t believe in yourself and you don’t believe that you can win when competing but having more self-confidence will help you will performance because the more you believe in yourself then the better you will perform because you believe that you can win therefore you want to push yourself so that you come in first place. I am aware that you wont really have to change you're actions much mainly because you are already performing at a high level in terms of self-confidence and believing in yourself. Previously i have already set a self talk exercise to reduce cognitive anxiety, self talk is also a valid way of increasing self confidence.
what is self-confidence and self-talk?
all athletes will get to that point where they experience doubts in their performances due to negative self-talk undermining feeling of self-confidence and self-esteem and interfering with performance.
many sporting athletes need self-confidence because this is the difference between winning and losing a competition because if you don’t believe in yourself when performing, many sports persons need help with their self-confidence as this is something that lacks in many athletes and is a key thing.
Self-talk is where you are convincing yourself that you are good enough to perform by changing negative thoughts into positive thoughts.
technique - what it involves.
self-talk is where you change all your negative thoughts into positive thoughts. An example of using self-talk to increase performance just before you go on the football pitch to perform for you're team you should think of all the positive thoughts e.g. instead of " what if" you should be thinking "yes come on". To increase your self-confidence we are going to use something called self-talk and as explained above, self-talk is where you change all your negative thoughts into positive thoughts. this will be very effective because you are giving yourself more confidence instead of self-doubt. This is something many performers will do just before they are about to perform to help with their confidence levels.
i would like you to gain more knowledge about self-talk being linked in with self-confidence so i would like you to complete two tasks for me, these tasks should be completed in a quiet place but make sure at the same time you are relaxed and don't force answers for this task.
below is a table that I would like you fill out and send it back to me. Within this table I would like you to think of a situation, an example could be something like I haven't recently been getting picked for my team.I would then like you to state whether you thought what was going through your mind was a positive or negative self-talk. Once you have thought of the situation I then want you to think about the thoughts that were going through your mind at the time.
during competition the reason why you didn't make the team was probably because you self-doubted yourself therefore reducing your self confidence was something which needed to be increased, now that you have established whether or not your self-talk was positive or negative, I would like you to replace the negative thoughts with positive ones.
All the factors are controllable as long as you are thinking about which ones you know you cant control. highlighting them will help as this will give you a better idea of you knowing which factors need changing so there is no need to worry about not having the ability to control these things.
what is self-confidence and self-talk?
all athletes will get to that point where they experience doubts in their performances due to negative self-talk undermining feeling of self-confidence and self-esteem and interfering with performance.
many sporting athletes need self-confidence because this is the difference between winning and losing a competition because if you don’t believe in yourself when performing, many sports persons need help with their self-confidence as this is something that lacks in many athletes and is a key thing.
Self-talk is where you are convincing yourself that you are good enough to perform by changing negative thoughts into positive thoughts.
technique - what it involves.
self-talk is where you change all your negative thoughts into positive thoughts. An example of using self-talk to increase performance just before you go on the football pitch to perform for you're team you should think of all the positive thoughts e.g. instead of " what if" you should be thinking "yes come on". To increase your self-confidence we are going to use something called self-talk and as explained above, self-talk is where you change all your negative thoughts into positive thoughts. this will be very effective because you are giving yourself more confidence instead of self-doubt. This is something many performers will do just before they are about to perform to help with their confidence levels.
i would like you to gain more knowledge about self-talk being linked in with self-confidence so i would like you to complete two tasks for me, these tasks should be completed in a quiet place but make sure at the same time you are relaxed and don't force answers for this task.
below is a table that I would like you fill out and send it back to me. Within this table I would like you to think of a situation, an example could be something like I haven't recently been getting picked for my team.I would then like you to state whether you thought what was going through your mind was a positive or negative self-talk. Once you have thought of the situation I then want you to think about the thoughts that were going through your mind at the time.
Situation
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Self – talk
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during competition the reason why you didn't make the team was probably because you self-doubted yourself therefore reducing your self confidence was something which needed to be increased, now that you have established whether or not your self-talk was positive or negative, I would like you to replace the negative thoughts with positive ones.
All the factors are controllable as long as you are thinking about which ones you know you cant control. highlighting them will help as this will give you a better idea of you knowing which factors need changing so there is no need to worry about not having the ability to control these things.
Positive thoughts
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Negative thoughts
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