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
Manage Social Anxiety in Sports
With social anxiety, social interactions cause feelings of anxiety, fear, self-consciousness, and embarrassment. And sports are all about social interactions. Making it tough for athletes
How to Hit With a Calm Mind
Are you overthinking at the plate? In this article, you will learn a powerful strategy to calm your mind going up to bat and unleash the potential you know you have!
4 Powerful Steps to Build Incredible Self-Motivation
Motivation is a key ingredient of success, and one that many lack. Learn 4 powerful steps to develop unbreakable motivation within yourself.
Fear of Success & 3 Steps to Overcome It
Do you know what the fear of success is? Do you think you have it? Learn what it is and 3 steps to overcome the fear of success.
How Does Mental Training Help Athletes?
Wondering how mental training can help you as an athlete? In this article you will learn the benefits of mental training and how you can get started today!
Complete Guide to Losing Composure in Sports
In this article, you will learn why you lose composure during games, along with a strategy you can use to manage your emotions and frustrations during games.
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