Thinking Rewired

Five tips for parents to build game day confidence with their athlete 💪🏼🧠

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If you want more detail and the remaining two tips, comment CONFIDENCE below and I’ll send it straight to your inbox. 📥

Three mantras you can use when you want to give up 🔥

1. I’ve got this 👏🏼
2. Just do it and it’s done ✅
3. If it was easy everyone would be doing it 💪🏼

These are my favourites.

Tell me your favourite mantras
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3 mindset tips to get you through preseason. PS Bonus tip if you get to the end. 🧠💪🏼

Let me know which one you will be focusing on?👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

New season, same thought patterns?

If you train hard but your head gets in the way — self-doubt, lack of confidence, easily rattled — that’s not a skill issue. That’s a mindset issue 🤯

The Thinking Rewired workbooks help athletes train their brain just like they train their body 🧠💪🏼 — and the good news - they’re reduced right now 🙌🏼

Don’t drop the ball and get your hands on a copy today.

🗣️ Coach Conversation Starter when tackling athletes playing below the line 👇🏼👇🏼

This is the type of conversation that won’t work if you’re telling people what to do or pointing the finger…. They will get defensive, justify behaviour and pretty much tune out. This is human nature.
Which is why really the only question you can ask is….. Where do you think you are right now?

This allows athletes to reflect and sit with the behaviour.
You may not get the answer/ behaviour change immediately, but it puts the ball in their court to be able to take ownership and make changes if they choose to.

Would you have this conversation?

⚡️3 steps you can take if you find yourself playing below the line.

🔄️ Acceptance: The first step is self-awareness and acceptance. Once you catch yourself in this fixed state you must acknowledge and accept that you are here.

🔄️ Take Ownership: What’s done is done. If you have the opportunity to make immediate changes, then change it. If not, don’t dwell on the past, think how you can change your behaviour in the future

🔄️ Growth: We need to be open to growth. Change your self-talk. When we are in that fixed state, we are telling ourselves negative statements, instead we need to ask ourselves positive questions, looking for solutions not problems. Reflect on what you would do differently next time (as it will come up again!).

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🗣️ 3 Coach Conversation Starters to use with your athletes to embrace one percenters:

1. “What’s one small thing you could do daily that no one else sees — but would give you an edge?”
🔍 Encourages ownership of effort and highlights that advantage often comes from invisible work.

2. “If you watched a highlight reel of your habits this week, what would it show?”
🎥 Helps athletes reflect on consistency, not just big moments, and builds self-awareness around effort.

3. “Who do you admire that lives the one-percenters — and what can we learn from them?”
👀 Creates positive peer influence and opens space for team standards to be discussed in a supportive way.

What other questions could you ask?

🔁 3 Tips to Incorporate One-Percenters Into Your Netball Routine

1. Start and Finish with Intent
Bookend your sessions with small purposeful actions — like focused footwork at the start or extra shooting reps at the end. These consistent effort points add up to real improvement. Think about an area you would like to grow and what small actions you can take to improve in this area.

2. Use Habit Stacking for Consistency
Attach a small one-percenter to something you already do.
🧠 Example: “After I get home from training, I’ll spend 2 minutes visualising how I want to play next game.”
It makes growth automatic and part of your rhythm. It also takes no extra time, so no reason why you can’t do it.

3: Surround Yourself with High Standards
Choose teammates, training partners, or even social media accounts that reflect the mindset you want to build.
When you’re around people who value the small things — like effort, attitude, and preparation — it becomes your normal too.
💬 Energy is contagious. So is work ethic.

It’s the small things done consistently that set you apart — which one-percenter will you try?” 👇🔥

🗣️ 3 Coach Conversation Starters to use with your team when it looks flat 📈 on court:

1. “What’s one thing we can do right now to lift our energy — as a team?”→ Encourages ownership and shared responsibility.

2. “Who’s going to be the spark 🔥 for us in this next play?”→ Inspires leadership and brings focus to effort, not just results.

3. “If another team was watching us right now — what would they see?”→ Builds self-awareness and challenges players to shift their presence.

What is your favourite question?