About Success Starts Within
Success Starts Within provides sport psychology resources to athletes and performers looking to improve their mental game. Success Starts Within offers 1-1 mental performance coaching and mental training courses to help you build confidence, mental toughness, and all the mental skills you need to elevate your performance. We also provide many free resources, including weekly articles, podcasts, and videos that cover sport psychology topics to help you master the mental game. No matter your sport, skill level, or financial ability, you will find the mental training resources you need here at Success Starts Within.
Mission Statement
Make mental training and sport psychology accessible, affordable, and achieveable to all athletes.
Eli Straw, M.S. - Mental Game Coach
Eli is a mental game coach and the founder of Success Starts Within. He holds a Master’s Degree in psychology with a sport psychology specialization. He has worked one-on-one with athletes from 6 different continents and over ten different countries on building a stronger mental game.
Eli has extensive experience coaching, teaching, and consulting with professional, elite, college, high school, middle school, and youth athletes. Eli also has experience playing baseball at the collegiate and professional levels.
Eli works with athletes of all sports and all levels and is a current member of the AASP.
Founder of Success Starts Within, LLC
Sports Psychology Articles
How Does Stress Affect Sports Performance
As a mental performance coach, I work with many athletes who are experiencing stress within their sport. We focus mainly on how this stress affects
Managing Self-Doubt in Sports
Do you doubt yourself going into games? What about during games…do you question your skills and second guess yourself? Self-doubt kills confidence. It eats away
How to Play More Aggressively
Playing aggressively is a key element of athletes playing up to their full potential. When they hold themselves back and aren’t playing aggressively, their play
Friendly Competition in Sports
Friendly competition occurs within teams when you are competing against teammates. It is a vital piece to you becoming the best athlete you can be
Peak Performance in Sports
Peak performance in sports refers to you playing up to your full potential. You performing the best that you can on any given day. As
What to Do if You’re Stuck in a Training Mindset
If you struggle to play your best during competition, this could be a sign you are stuck in a training mindset. In this article, I’m
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