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Get Out of Your Head to Improve Your Performance

“C’mon. You can do it. Stay calm. Focus.”

Skatergirl skates to her opening position. She’s sitting in third after the short program and it’s time for her free skate.

Skatergirl is in the middle of her 20 minute warmup session. She is getting ready for her long program later in the day.

Yesterday, Skatergirl skated a stellar short program and is currently sitting in first place.

Skatergirl is on the ice warming up her jumps.

Axel. Double Salchow. Double Toeloop. Things are going well until she starts warming up her double Lutz.

Bam. Skatergirl hits the ice hard.

“Congrats, on landing your first triple flip,” Skatercoach says. “High five.”

Skatergirl smiles and smacks her Skatercoach’s hand. Finally, her years of hard work paid off.

“Starting tomorrow,” Skatercoach says, “we’ll start working on triple lutz.”

“Argh. I want to quit,” Skatergirl shouts.

“Didn’t you say that before?” Skatermom asks. “Like last week, and the week before that, and the week before that, and the week before that, and…”

“Yeah, well I wanted to quit then too!”

“Then, why don’t you just quit?” Skatermom asks.

“I…”

“No one is stopping you from quitting.”

Skatergirl sighs. “My short program was a disaster. Skatercoach called me the living embodiment of a Zamboni. It was horrible.”

“Slow down,” Mentalgamecoach says. “Tell me exactly what happened.”

“First,” Skatergirl says. “I fell on my triple lutz. Then, everything fell apart.”