“It’s like my confidence disappeared throughout the season - and I don’t know why or how it happened.”

I was having an Innovation Session with one of our NHL players this past week when this challenge presented itself.

“I don’t know - it’s like it quietly disappeared on me and I didn’t even realize it,” he said.

So I had him break it down for me - I said, “Let’s walk through the season and start with how you prepared. Teach me about it.”

He said, “Well, I’d go to training, we had a skills coach there, and I did the work he had us do, then I’d do some film with the team and we’d cover how we played as a group, and then sometimes I’d do some extra work on the ice.”

And that’s when the silent threat showed itself.

Now, you might not see it - and that’s exactly why it’s silent - but I need to show you it or you too could become a victim…

It’s not that our NHLer wasn’t doing the work - he absolutely was - and it’s not that the skills coach or head coach did anything wrong - they did what they had to do to keep the team on track, but the work wasn’t specific to what he needed.

See, he was blinded by the fact that he was working, but he wasn’t working on the things that he needed to work on in order to be dominant!!

And as the season continued on, his confidence started to dwindle - silently and dangerously - as a natural byproduct of not working o things that he needed to master to be great.

To keep it simple: when you don’t work specifically on what you need to do in order to be successful in your games, your confidence will start to decrease.

Certainty, or confidence = purposeful and intense work, aka - work that’s relevant to you and work that’s intense enough to match your game time.

As a result, you walk into performances feeling prepared (or, what most call confidence).

Now here’s the kicker - sometimes we don’t take enough responsibility for our own confidence and assume it’s up to our teams to build that for us (this is where the threat comes in).

The reality is that your confidence is 100% your responsibility - and it’s not your coaches fault that they’re not building it, nor is it yours!

Your coaches have to worry about bettering the team as a whole, and you haven’t been taught that you need to take control of your own confidence.

The truth is that you must have a confidence replicating system that you can depend on to bring you consistent results in performances, and when you pair this with the work that your team sets out for you to do you become unstoppable.

So the question becomes, where do you start?

Well, we took care of that for you - we created a free masterclass on building your confidence where we train you on how to properly use visualization, physical preparation, and film study to build your confidence and dominate in performances.

All you need to do is click this link to get it ===> LINK

Until next time - stay resilient!

Your friend,

Matt “We Got You” Caldaroni