Why Don't They Feel Pressure

excerpts from Mental Toughness Training for Sports by James E. Loehr Pressure is something you put on yourself. The only difference between playing a sport competitively and playing it for fun is pressure. For lots of athletes, playing for fun is easy and playing competitively is too much work. For them, competition is hard, threatening, frustrating, and unnerving. But the game is played in exactly the same way in both cases. You keep score the same, the rules don't change, and you are often playing the same people. In most cases, the only difference is the difference you make of it in your head! .....Situations are not nervous or anxious - people are. The sooner you accept that pressure comes from within and not from without, the sooner you can start shutting it down. To learn more about handling and avoiding pressure, and Dr. Loehr's other work, please visit: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0452267951/ref=pd_bbs_sr_olp_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197293969&sr=1-1