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
Two Visualization Exercises to Reduce Fear of Failure in Sports
Think about the last game you played. What was on your mind as the game began? Were you thinking about how excited you were to
How to Rebuild Confidence After a Bad Game
Confidence in sports can be quite fragile. It’s easy to have your confidence drop after a bad game or a string of bad games. However,
Go From Playing With Fear to Playing With Confidence
Have you ever found yourself playing with fear during a game? Athletes who play with fear not only underperform, but also leave games feeling frustrated
Three Mindset Shifts to Go From Good to Great as an Athlete
The mind plays a large role in your success as an athlete. Once you get to a certain skill level, it isn’t physical talent that
Mental Training During Injury Recovery
Being injured as an athlete is physically and mentally challenging. The injury itself can be painful, and the time away from your sport and the
5 Calming Exercises to Reduce Pregame Nerves
Pregame nerves are normal, but can quickly turn into a distraction and cause you to underperform depending on how you respond to them. There is
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