Dr. Jessica Bartley

What's important?

And somehow, some way those come into conflict.

So if sports and making it to the Olympic or Paralympic Games is number one, there is time that maybe you didn't spend with family or maybe you weren't able to get that degree that led you to another kind of job.

It's usually when values and what's important comes into conflict with something else that's important and you have to kind of make some choice points or pivot points in your life.

So I don't know.

Again, I think that's – I like the way you framed it because I don't know that you're giving something up, but things do, in my opinion, start to come into conflict.

Yeah, I like to say that we're all performers, that there's always a performance.

There's always something that we're working towards and want to do really well.

We want to execute, whether it's like a task at work.

It could be a test at school.

You know, I've worked with all kinds of different occupations.

You know, our field has really grown with military, with first responders.

Personally, I've worked with lawyers when they're looking at their closing arguments.

Like, how do you stand in front?

Like, talk about being watched and having, like, stakes involved.

when you have a closing argument with the law, working with medical providers, surgeons, when you have surgeries.

And so there's a lot of ways that you can use mental performance skills.

Like Alex said, pick up a book on it, find someone who knows sports psychology, mental performance.

I mean, the reality is we all have mental health.

So what are ways that we can improve those things and really be performing at our best and living at our best?