Success is a choice not a chance. Joe Simpson, English mountaineer whose near-fatal climb in the Andes became the subject of a book and film, Touching the Void (1960–) How much time do we need to figure out what is going wrong for a team or a player? In sport, like many other avenues in life, we, as coaches, psychologists, doctors, and so on, fulfil part of our job by diagnosing and intervening to put things that appear wrong, right. In medicine, for example, some view using

Everyone has heard about setting goals. Everyone has heard that goal setting helps with our motivation. Though we know how important it is to set goals, it’s not so easy to set them. And even when we set goals, they can challenge us to be the right goals at the right time for the right purpose. In sport, goals help athletes and coaches to direct their attention, to focus on the task at hand, to increase the level of difficulty so that athletes keep progressing, but what if th