Coach Kip

Rain…Rest…Restore…Reflect

Sometimes you need to do it different!

Where do you like to go to rest?

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⛰️ Sometimes you just need to be still… 🏞️ Listen! 🌲Get out of the city and in nature! 🍀 Restore! #sportspsychology #lifeskills #highperformancehabits #personaldevelopment #growthmindset

Attitude of gratitude is your ‘FIX’ for anxiety and depression!

What are you thankful for?

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The #1 antidote to depression and anxiety is …. 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 GRATITUDE!!! ☀️Scroll through your life and your day, then verbalize the good, the triumphs, the quiet blessings and the big follow through gifts you have experienced. Recognize them! Acknowledge them! ☀️Make note of the critical people, the defining moments, and the incredible gifts you’ve been given from on high! Recognize their contributions to your life. Acknowledge how their impact changed your life. ➡️ www.braincodecorp.com for more information on athlete assessments and executive coaching! #sportspsychology #lifeskills #highperformancehabits #personaldevelopment

Long course season will test you!! You ready?? I love training young minds to be their best!!

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Grateful for the years of a great relationship with @txfordaquatics !! We enter into long course season distinguishing an average mindset from a CHAMPION MINDSET! 💙 Let’s go!!! 🏊🏼‍♂️🏊🏼🏊🏼‍♂️🏊🏼🏊🏼‍♂️🏊🏼🏊🏼‍♂️🏊🏼 Champion mindset starts with executing simple yet elite standards and habits with extraordinary consistency! 💙💙💙💙💙💙❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ #sportspsychology #highperformancehabits #parentingathletes #texasfordaquatics #swimming

As a recovered perfectionist, I recognize this idol in my athletes. Funny thing is, in 27 years as a sports psychotherapist, not one person has asked if I got straight A’s in grad school. No one cares.

Yes grades matter. Yes performance matters. Yes results matter. But… not if you turn into an angry, depressed, stressed out person.

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🚩 Is perfection an idol? Do you care so much about being and achieving perfection that it is hurting you? Hurting the relationships you have? Is it actually damaging your body? ➡️ Perfection leads to excellence. We can keep that. It helps us stay resilient. This means we have to be okay making mistakes and failing. It is how we learn. 🚩But the dark side of perfectionism is the waste of emotional energy. It leads to anger, anxiety, and stress. It usually damages relationships in this hyper-emotion. No one wants to be around this reactive emotional state. 🚩 Stress response to perfectionism also damages performance. It impacts motor skills, response time, and visual focus. ➡️ Learn your unique Braincode and your individual stress indicators and counters at www.braincodecorp.com 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 #sportspsychology #lifeskills #highperformancehabits #neurosport #growthmindset

Expectations on my mind! I see this ruin more athletes striving for consistent performance than nearly anything else. The main issue is defining perfection as NEVER making a mistake.

How is that working for you?

And the athlete may say they are okay with a mistake but when it happens they fall apart. The expectation, then, is unrealistic. Redefine perfection = striving for excellence and mistakes are information I need!

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🚩Expectations make or break performance! ➡️ Review your expectations and see if you are honestly setting yourself up for success and achievement or disappointment and lack of achievement. ➡️ Most of the time when I explore the expectations an athlete believes, I find some red flags. 🚩These expectations produce anger, anxiety, sadness, and inconsistent performance! 🚩Too high and unachievable are ridiculous 🚩Too low and not challenging are lazy ✅ Just the right mix = challenge and realistic Challenging goals push us. They need to be difficult and include failure. Mistakes are okay. Effective goals need to be realistic, accurate, and in your control. This leads to improvement and consistent high performance. Lesson: Review your expectations of self and coming from others. Check for 🚩🚩🚩🚩 #sportspsychology #lifeskills #highperformancehabits #growthmindset #parentingathletes ✅ www.braincodecorp.com for more info on athlete assessments and mental skills training

How is the health of your foundation? I’m talking about your life not your home!

Do you have a solid foundation? Built on rock?

How well do you take care of your temple?

Do you have the life skills you need to manage the natural challenges in life?

Do you have a solid support-success team around you?

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How is your foundation for life? Here are the 3 key pillars of your foundation: 1. Taking care of your brain and body 2. Spiritual, mental, emotional skills - such as a decision making process 3. Trusted support and accountability team Sign up for Coach Kip Pep Talks here: www.braincodecorp.com 🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨 #sportspsychology #lifeskills #highperformancehabits #personaldevelopment #parentingathletes

🇺🇸Memorial Day 🇺🇸 — God bless our military, the men and women and their families, who served and sacrificed to protect freedom, western civilization, and a moral value system that values life and will stand up to evil. Thank you! We remember you!

🇺🇸”Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.”
‭‭John‬ ‭15‬:‭13‬ ‭🙏

🇺🇸 Murph Challenge — Are you ready? How many of you will do this? Join me as we remember Lt. Michael P Murphy who lost his life in active duty in Afghanistan plus all those who came before us 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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🚦DEEP THOUGHTS at a RED LIGHT 🚦 — I grew up hating my skin color. It is freckled, fair, and ugly. The teasing I endure because of it led to a very negative view of self.

🚦‘Freckle face’ ‘Poka dot face’ ’Do you have a disease?’ ‘What happened to you-chicken pox face’.

🚦I dreaded summertime when the freckles multiplied like ant mounds after the rain. My skin burned so easily, I spent many days in pain and peeling rather than laughing and exploring. Going to the pool with friends was an ordeal of figuring out who to ask to put sunscreen on my back and delay out entry into the water.

🚦There was nothing I could do about my skin. Boy, I wasted a lot of time and emotional energy feeling sorry for myself. I could not make the freckles go away. I had to live with them.

🚦At 26, ironically when the brain is fully developed, I embraced my God-given skin. I learned to love the skin I was born in and began referring to my freckles as God’s holy kisses! I equated them to the unique design of my masterful creation. I saw them as symbols of God’s love.

🚦Today, I hardly think about it at all until someone points it out to me, ‘wow, you have a lot of freckles’. Yep. I am deeply loved!

🙏 Lesson: If you have a part of body, you don’t like, find the gift in it, find the God given uniqueness of it, find the good!

“For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭139‬:‭13‬-‭14‬ ‭

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