Jordan | Mindset for Athletes

The mental game is a skill. I teach it.
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Track that one thing for a month and you'll learn more than a season of box scores.

If he doesn't have a bounce-back routine yet, that's what we build inside The Roster.

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The box score doesn't show the most important stat in youth baseball.

What he does in the at-bat right after a bad one.

That tells you more about his future than anything on a baseball card.

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The bounce-back at-bat is trainable. A routine, a reset, a plan he can hold under pressure.

Kids who have one stop fearing mistakes, because a mistake stops costing them the whole game.

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I used to check my batting average every night.

Good day, check it twice before bed. Bad day, lie awake replaying it.

I thought that's what competitors did. Really I was renting my confidence from a number.

The best stretch of my career started when I stopped looking. Not because the number got better. Because I finally did.

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Doing something different tonight.

What's the hardest part of being a baseball parent right now?

Not the logistics. The real part. The ride home you got wrong. The kid who stopped talking about the game.

Reply below. I'm reading every one and answering as many as I can tonight.

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A slump is rarely a swing problem. It's a weight problem.

We teach kids to set that weight down inside The Roster. One pitch at a time.

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There was a stretch in pro ball where I couldn't buy a hit.

Weeks of it. Gripping the bat like it owed me money.

What got me out had nothing to do with my swing.

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Most kids in a slump are trying to fix their head with their hands.

Nobody teaches them how to put the streak down and win one pitch.

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@UncleCharlie50 Incredible video. You have to love the process or this game will eat you alive.

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This embodies what it takes to make it to a high level.

You have to fall in love with the process.

You can’t fake it.

Share this with your kids.

[Jordan | Mindset for Athletes @mindsetwithj]

Somewhere a kid is playing his last season and nobody knows it. Not him. Not his parents.

Most careers don't end with a ceremony. They just quietly don't sign up again.

You can't control when that day comes.

You can control whether the years before it felt like joy or like a job.

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Save this for the day he says he wants to quit.

Don't panic. Don't lecture.

Ask one question. "When did it stop being fun?"

Usually it isn't the sport he wants to quit. It's the pressure that got attached to it.

That's fixable. The conversation starts there.

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From the stands they look identical.

One kid: eyes up, talking to teammates, ready for the ball.

The other: eyes on his shoes, hoping it stays away.

One is competing. One is protecting.

Learn the difference and you'll know exactly when he needs you.

Which one are you seeing right now?

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Youth baseball is now one of the most expensive sports in America.

Showcases. Rankings. Exposure camps. An entire industry built on the fear that your kid gets missed.

Nobody sells the one thing scouts actually look for. A kid who can fail in front of people and keep swinging.

There's no registration fee for that.

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Pregame nerves aren't a problem. They're proof he cares.

Pro guys still get butterflies in game 130. The skill was never making them disappear. It's competing with them still in your stomach.

Almost nobody teaches that part.

Are the nerves showing up more lately?