The Goalie Development Scale

Before I dive into the contents of this book I wanted to give you a little background on me, why I’m writing this, what it is, and how you can get the most out of this book.

Visualization is a huge component of mindset, but it can be hard to know what to visualize. Many times we visualize ourselves succeeding, scoring the goal, making the big save, crushing the big talk we have to give. It’s not surprising that some of these would largely focus on the positive feelings of joy and accomplishment after. That’s okay to channel those good feelings before a performance or game, but what about everyday life for improvement?

Spring season has begun at the college level and many high schools are gearing up in the coming weeks. During the spring season you WILL face hurdles, especially the goalies. I still see and hear goalies experiencing similar hurdles I went through during my high school and college days. I hope these lessons can help some players out there take their game to the next level and thrive off the field along the way. As I mentioned in the title, these might not be novel ideas, but rather things I wish I actually did to maximize my potential.

I feel so strongly about this topic, and the expectations we hold ourselves to or compare ourselves against that I had to expand into a full blog post.

I know it’s been awhile since I’ve written a blog, my apologies. There isn’t a real reason outside of well, the nature of life and getting too busy, letting other things take priority. BUT, I’m back, and aiming to write about topics that will help you the most so please keep sending in questions!

This first one I get asked about a lot. How does one recover from mistakes?

Run tests are over for most, school is back in session, and all the work hits us. Things start to feel more like a grind to get through, stress starts increasing, sleep starts to go out the window, we overcaffeinate to make up for it and just keep going through the cycle of losing sleep and stress until our bodies shut down inevitably leading us to get sick. It’s no surprise that there’s a slew of high schoolers getting sick right now. What I want you to know is there’s a way to make it easier and it involves habits. Developing them isn’t easy, but it will make your life feel like it later on. The habits I’ve developed are essential to everything I do and I think some of them could help you too.

We all have them, goals and dreams. If you could dream your biggest dream what would it be?

How should we really look at mental toughness? What do goalies actually think it is? Read more on this one, originally posted on ILWomen.com.

Before I dive into the contents of this book I wanted to give you a little background on me, why I’m writing this, what it is, and how you can get the most out of this book.

Visualization is a huge component of mindset, but it can be hard to know what to visualize. Many times we visualize ourselves succeeding, scoring the goal, making the big save, crushing the big talk we have to give. It’s not surprising that some of these would largely focus on the positive feelings of joy and accomplishment after. That’s okay to channel those good feelings before a performance or game, but what about everyday life for improvement?

Spring season has begun at the college level and many high schools are gearing up in the coming weeks. During the spring season you WILL face hurdles, especially the goalies. I still see and hear goalies experiencing similar hurdles I went through during my high school and college days. I hope these lessons can help some players out there take their game to the next level and thrive off the field along the way. As I mentioned in the title, these might not be novel ideas, but rather things I wish I actually did to maximize my potential.

I feel so strongly about this topic, and the expectations we hold ourselves to or compare ourselves against that I had to expand into a full blog post.

I know it’s been awhile since I’ve written a blog, my apologies. There isn’t a real reason outside of well, the nature of life and getting too busy, letting other things take priority. BUT, I’m back, and aiming to write about topics that will help you the most so please keep sending in questions!

This first one I get asked about a lot. How does one recover from mistakes?

Run tests are over for most, school is back in session, and all the work hits us. Things start to feel more like a grind to get through, stress starts increasing, sleep starts to go out the window, we overcaffeinate to make up for it and just keep going through the cycle of losing sleep and stress until our bodies shut down inevitably leading us to get sick. It’s no surprise that there’s a slew of high schoolers getting sick right now. What I want you to know is there’s a way to make it easier and it involves habits. Developing them isn’t easy, but it will make your life feel like it later on. The habits I’ve developed are essential to everything I do and I think some of them could help you too.

We all have them, goals and dreams. If you could dream your biggest dream what would it be?

How should we really look at mental toughness? What do goalies actually think it is? Read more on this one, originally posted on ILWomen.com.