FUNDAMENTALS OF HEADS-UP BASEBALL & SOFTBALL


 
  • Take responsibility for your thoughts and actions
  • Commit to a mission: Know why you play baseball/softball, what character traits you want to possess and what you want to accomplish in the game
  • Make your daily actions consistent with your mission
  • Play one pitch at a time, confident and focused on each pitch as it is played with disregard for past or future pitches.
  • Focus on the process of playing the game rather than the outcomes of your performances
  • Realize that you can't control what happens around you, but you can control your response to it, and that you must be in control of yourself before you can control your performance.
  • Develop your mental skills so you consistently perform near the best of your ability and have "something to go to" when faced with adversity.
  • Practice what you are going to do in a game.
  • Learn each day. "Be better today than you were yesterday and better tomorrow than you were today".
  • Keep it simple!