We are now in the decade of the 2020s and much has changed in the world of sport and sport psychology support for the masses. The number of qualified sport psychologists is growing and the number of people seeking the services of a sport psychologist is growing. With all this growth going on, what are we doing to ensure that the masses can access, use and benefit from sport psychology support? The greatest development recently is the proliferation of sport psychology services

Did you ever wonder about professionals and world-class athletes that have made it to the top of the game and wonder how they got there? Did you ever think it might have something to do with the size of the population in which they grew up? There is research which suggests that the size of the city where an athlete spends their developmental years can affect the chances of attaining elite level performance. Small to medium-sized communities (about 30,000 to 1,000,000) seem to

When we think about our habits in sport, we might feel that they are routine behaviours we do without thinking or paying much attention to what we are doing, but goals always seem so purposive. For example, if we were going to clean the kitchen, we might say that we are going to clean the kitchen for two hours and then have lunch. What if I cleaned the kitchen thoroughly every Saturday as a habit? Would I still consider it a goal? What if I were working on Saturdays for three

Did you ever notice yourself working hard to prove someone wrong and, by extension, prove yourself right? Did you ever wonder why you feel so motivated to do so? According to the self-completion theory (Wicklund & Gollwitzer, 1982), when people experience a threat to something they value about themselves as a person (i.e., an aspect of their identity), they become highly motivated to show others that element of their identity. For example, if a football player did not perform

"My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces". Wilma Rudolph, American runner who, after contracting polio as a child, had to walk with orthopaedic support until she was 12, and then went on to win three gold medals at the 1960 Rome Olympics (1940–1994) We all crave success now – we all want to win now. But success now is difficult to come by if we have not prepared properly to succeed, despite