More Confidence - Less Doubt: With The Confidence Coach
Welcome to my website. My name is Martin Perry and I am a Confidence Coach and Sports Psychology expert, with offices in England and Ireland.
Twenty four years of coaching sports professionals and researching the science of confidence, has given me insight into the secrets of why we lose confidence. And more importantly, how to regain it.
People lose their confidence in sport, for many reasons.The good news is that lost confidence is NOT lost forever. My coaching, will help you get your confidence back, very quickly. I specialise in working with talented managers, coaches and performers, who are under-achieving.
The Magic Pill!...
An experienced football manager asked me recently, if I had a 'magic pill', to restore lost confidence. I told him that I didn't have a magic pill, but that lost confidence can be restored quickly. After twenty years in the game, he was very doubtful.
So he gave me a test. A central defender, who had been struggling for weeks, with doubts and uncertainty. Making poor decisions, leading to costly mistakes. His confidence was at a low-ebb.
Within days, this key defender, who was on the verge of being dropped, rediscovered his confidence, became the rock at the heart of the defence again. This was after a 30 minute Confidence Coaching, telephone conversation with me. He's not looked back since, winning man-of-the-match awards. With one very happy manager, with one less problem, to wrestle with.
The Impossible...
In another recent case, I received a long-distance call from Australia. It was from a concerned mother, desperate for help, for her talented daughter, an up and coming gymnast. The daughter was suffering from a bad case of 'lost move syndrome'. It's similar to the 'yips', that golfers and darts players experience.
Her coaches had given up on her. She had nowhere to turn. And no one to help her. And was on the verge of giving up, the sport she loved.
After three, twenty minute telephone conversations with me, she got her lost moves back. And was performing as well as ever. Her coaches were incredulous, claiming that they had never seen anything like it, in forty years. The power of Confidence Coaching!
Inspiration...
In another example, a long-serving Dutch football manager recently called me. His team were on a bad losing run. And the unhappy chairman was on his back. The sack was looming. Things were at a low-ebb.
After two Confidence Coaching conversations with me, he rediscovered his passion and love for the game. Inspired, he proceeded to lead his team, to their best result of the season. And since then, he and his players, have since gone from strength to strength.
The Confidence Breakthrough...
My one-to-one Confidence Coaching, will help you breakthrough in your sport:
- Breakthrough the cycle of doubts.
- Breakthrough the feeling, that things will never change.
- Breakthrough indecision, to create clear-cut decision-making
- Breakthrough into feelings of belief, where a better future is possible.
- Breakthrough into a surge of confidence, where success follows success.
With my knowledge and expertise to guide and support you, I WILL and can, get you back to your confident best, and performing at a high level, sooner than you think!
Note - Finally, although my website caters mainly for confidence building and sports psychology in sportsmen and sportswomen, many of the techniques that I use are applicable in building confidence in other areas of life as well.
'Confidence is contagious. And so is a lack of confidence' -- Vince Lombardi
In the psychology of sports, the difference between winning and losing is often marginal. Many sports professionals make themselves competitive by their rigorous physical preparation. But this can only get you so far.
Tight contests are often decided by who is mentally stronger. Who has done the best mental preparation. In sports psychology parlance, 'Who backs themselves?'
Do you know why sports professionals lose confidence? For instance:
- Why a footballer can't buy a goal?
- Why a golfer misses crucial putts?
- Why a tennis player can't close big games?
- Why a cricketer is scared of playing their shots?
- Why a darts player misses vital doubles?
- Why a manager can't make a critical tactical decision?
- Why is a team is not united?
There are many reasons why confidence is lost. Some of the common reasons are:
- Fear of failure or fear of success
- Constant criticism - from others and yourself
- A perfectionist streak
- Unfortunate comparison with your opponent / team-mates
- A negative self-view / self doubt
- Poor concentration or focus
- Worry about what others think of you
- Lack of mental preparation
Overcoming Uncertainty...
When we lose confidence it can be both frustrating and frightening. It causes anxiety and tension. It builds doubt. It creates a feeling of uncertainty. It is only natural to wonder how to get it back.
There is a way. Confidence Coaching. With my insights into the science of confidence, and the psychology of sports success, you can be back to your best, sooner than you think! The doubts and uncertainty will disappear, and your natural confidence will return.
What do you think it would be worth to have a Confidence Coach at your disposal who could resolve confidence issues at their source? Who worked solely in your interest, patiently and steadily? Who understood why you have lost your confidence. And more importantly, knew how you could get it back. Quickly!
I believe it is worth a great deal. I have vast experience in the science of confidence building, and bring to the table, wisdom, understanding and the ability to turn things around, quickly.
Remember - Confidence is the oil, that turns the wheels of the success machine
Who Am I And What Gives Me The Right To Say These Things?
I am the author of the best selling book The Confidence Booster Workout. Translated into 4 languages, which has currently sold over 100,000 copies world-wide.
I am also the resident sports psychology expert for the UK's leading sports magazine, "FourFourTwo". My column, "On The Couch With Dr. Martin", is read by players and coaches alike, who seek my insights into the psychology of football.
I am constantly sought by the media for my views on the psychology of sports and human behaviour and have appeared on "Celebrity Big Brother", "Inside The Mind" and "Tabloid Tales".
My innovative sports psychology report on "The Brain Of The Perfect Football Manager (2006)", was used by "Codemaster" to promote their popular "League Manager" video game. EA Sports used me to promote their popular video game, 'Tiger Woods 08'.
For further details of Martin's activities click here.
Confidence Coaching - The Benefits
My work as a Confidence Coach is to assist individuals and teams to reconnect with their natural confidence.
- I give confidence to footballers, to help them rediscover their goalscoring form
- I rebuild the confidence of golfers, to help them overcome their doubts
- I make tennis players become mentally tough, to help them through tight matches
- I support darts players, to help them finsih off games, under pressure
- I liberate cricketers from doubt, to help them play their natural game
- I work with teams to help them work together as one
- I support managers to improve their motivation and leadership skills
- I teach coaches to help them understand the psychology of success
- I inspire sports professionals build confidence and defeat doubt
I am YOUR confidence coach
Does Confidence Coaching Help?
Yes it does! And I am an expert in this field. I understand why we lose confidence; where it goes.
And, critically, how to regain it. My Confidence Coaching caters for both, group and individual needs. I make a difference by significantly improving players' performance.
Sometimes, it may be by just 1%. But that 1% can be the difference between success and failure.
Sports professionals crave an edge over their rivals. This can be the difference you need.
In the psychology of sports, the difference between winning and losing is marginal. Your confidence, belief and trust in yourself, will make that difference.
The Psychology Of Winners...
So here is your chance to steal a march on your rivals. Hire me as your Confidence Coach. The virtue of employing me, is that I come with no bias.
I tell it like it is. From our first conversation I will pinpoint the reasons why you have lost your confidence. Then, give you a clear strategy to regain it. You will very quickly start to feel the surge of confidence return.
My agenda is simple. I want you to succeed.
Hire me. I work with coaches and players at all levels, over sustained periods of time, imparting the inner belief and unshakeable confidence of WINNERS.
Remember - you could wait and hope that by magic, your confidence returns. But experience tells me that rarely happens. There is a reason why you have lost your confidence. I am here to inspire you to return to your confident best.
In The Presence Of Confidence, Doubt Cannot Exist
