Ad Astra Performance

Ad Astra Performance Accessible and affordable mental skills training for athletes and sports people. For happier, healthier and higher performing athletes

29/09/2026

Is your child their own harsh critic?
If they are one mistake and quickly turn into:
“ I’m useless”
“ I can’t do this”
“ I always mess up”

Now the goal isn’t to enforce positive thinking.
It’s to teach them to think more helpfully.
Because what they say to themselves really matters👊

22/09/2026

Mistakes happen!
But often when they do, your athlete is still thinking about them two corners or even two weeks later.

The mistake isn’t the thing that matters
What they do next is!

The best athletes aren’t the ones who never make mistake mistakes

They’re the ones who know how to get back to performing 👊

Resilience isn’t built when everything goes right.It’s built when things go wrong:The crashThe disappointmentThe poor re...
21/09/2026

Resilience isn’t built when everything goes right.

It’s built when things go wrong:

The crash
The disappointment
The poor result
The injury

He can’t always control what happens
But you can teach your athlete what to do next 👊

15/09/2026

Sometimes an athlete doesn’t need more skill.
They just need to see the situation differently.
He didn’t suddenly become slower when he got passed.
He just felt threatened.
Once he changed how he saw it, his performance changed too 👊

10/09/2026

The hard you try not to make a mistake the more your brain will focus on the mistake.

Don’t crash
Don’t mess up
Don’t lose

Sounds familiar?

Instead, give your athlete something to DO, not something to avoid.

Focus on the performance - not the possibility of failure 👊

Mistakes are part of learning.You can’t avoid them- but you can choose how you respond to them.The best athletes don’t f...
07/09/2026

Mistakes are part of learning.

You can’t avoid them- but you can choose how you respond to them.

The best athletes don’t fear mistakes.
They learn from them, reset and go again 👊🔥

26/08/2026

When results become everything, confidence becomes fragile.

Because if winning means you’re good…..
What does losing mean??

Your child is more, much more than their last result.
Help them focus on progress learning and things they can control.

The result matters, but it should never be allowed to define them 👊

One bad raceOne bad resultOne mistakeNone of those things have to define your rider.What matters is the meaning they giv...
19/08/2026

One bad race
One bad result
One mistake

None of those things have to define your rider.
What matters is the meaning they give to it
Is it proof that they’re not good enough?
Or is it feedback showing them what they need to work on?

The result is the result.
The story you tell yourself about it is a choice 👊

12/08/2026

Have you ever considered that we learn nothing from winning?
We learn everything from losing

So that loss that feels really terrible right now, will probably teach you more than winning ever would.

So how bad is it really?

05/08/2026

One bad race doesn’t destroy confidence.
What destroys confidence is the meaning your rider gives to that race?

“ I had a bad day” it’s very different to “ I’m not good enough”

Help your writer separate the performance from the person.
Because one result should never define who they are 👊

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