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Mental Skills Toolkit:
Increase your Confidence;
How to Grow your belief in yourself & your abilities
Confidence in soccer means having a positive view of yourself as a player and strong belief in your abilities, while also being able to objectively look at your weaknesses and put in the work to improve. Gaining confidence in soccer comes from physical and mental preparedness yes, but it also comes from having a strong understanding of the detrimental role that limiting beliefs, results-based expectations, and relying on external validation play in how you feel about yourself, how you perform and how much self-trust and self-belief you have.
When your confidence and self-worth are directly tied to your ability to produce an impossibly high, unrealistic outcome, you end up in an unforgiving cycle of disappointment. Your inner critic is never satisfied with your performance and you consistently are filled with self-doubt. This happens because your confidence is attached to things you can’t control. Learning to hold yourself to a new standard (based on things you can control) is key.
For many players, wanting to have more confidence in soccer can seem like a never-ending, unsuccessful quest. It’s not uncommon for a player’s lack of self-confidence to persist and negatively impact their game for years. It doesn’t have to be that way though. You CAN change things. Ready to give it a try?
