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4 Mental Toughness Myths Holding You Back From Your Peak Performance
Mental Toughness
If you’ve ever set goals for your team at the beginning of the season, or encouraged your team to take the floor with confidence, or used visualization before competition then you understand the importance of mental toughness training. …

How to Inspire Your Mid-Season Goal Setting
Mental Toughness
While most people are setting New Year’s Resolutions, we are all deep into our season and it may feel like a strange time to do some goal setting. But I say, it’s a perfect time. Whether you set goals at the beginning of the season or not,…

The Most Important Conversation You Need To Have With Your Assistant Coach
Coaches Corner
Are you lucky enough to have an assistant coach? Maybe you are an assistant coach who is eager to help the team. Or maybe you’re like me, for a long time I was a head coach doing everything alone and wishing for some help!
I…

How to Implement the 1% Rule for Habit Change
Mental Toughness
It’s easy to look at other dance teams and wish your team was more like the one you admire. "I wish we had their stamina." "They have such presence on stage." "I love the way they dance with fire and passion. I want to make that happen for…

How to Write D.A.N.C.E. Goals that are Proven to Inspire
Mental Toughness
Goal setting is all about making a vision for what you want in the future, and then creating a real strategy to MAKE IT HAPPEN! Goal setting requires a clear plan for achievement, not just a statement of something you wish would happen in the…

7 Proven Steps to a Successful Goal Setting Meeting
Coaches Corner
I’m going to be blunt: The number 1 mistake coaches make with their early-season goal setting meeting, is to set those goals, and then forget it. They start out all excited, but there’s no real strategy behind it, so there is no positive…

10 Essential Off-Season Tasks That Will Make Your Next Year Better
Coaches Corner
Any veteran coach will tell you, offseason is never really “off”. There is a lot to do, and our years usually blend together. Check out this straightforward checklist of Coaching Tools to use during your off-season and accomplish…

Discover the #1 Project Planning Tool That Will Change Your Life
Coaches CornerOrdering uniforms, preparing for camp, choosing competition music and costumes… the beginning of the season is a whirlwind of to-do lists. If you’re not careful, you can spend the first month of your season completely swamped and overwhelmed,…

10 Miracle Benefits of Effective Visualization Tools
Mental ToughnessMany coaches use visualization tools when teaching routines or preparing for a competition, and there’s a good reason. Effective visualization is not just about picturing yourself doing your routine. There are so many ways to visualize and…