Gary Keegan

you have your plan and you've delivered it today in your two sessions, whatever that was.

And at the end of the day, you can say today was worthwhile because...

I've got through this, I've got through this, I've got through this.

I did what I said I was going to do.

I missed this, but I can bring it into tomorrow.

So I can close off today and go to sleep with a good conscience and know that tomorrow is covered because I have my plan for tomorrow.

And that I missed today, I can slot it in tomorrow if I feel it's beneficial to do so.

So it's not just the plan, it's reviewing the plan, having confidence that you delivered what you said you committed to delivering.

Self-doubt.

Self-doubt from players who have delivered time and time again, but still have it.

So over the last number of years, I've come to realize that self-doubt is an important part of the performance itself.

Because I think self-doubt is sometimes just checking.

I just want to cross the T's and dot the I's.

So a player will come in and say, I'm feeling a little bit of doubt.

And you might be 24 hours out from the game or it might be 26 hours out from the game.

The time that we call the struggle zone between your final piece of preparation and the game itself, where players start to undermine their own capacity to perform by overthinking things or starting to doubt themselves or starting to not trust the preparation they've done in the week, finding reasons, right, to...

to disrupt the very things that were well-structured and have been well delivered over the week.

So self-doubt can be an issue.

Overthinking can be an issue, which then forces them into more detail and then compromises the clarity of their plan, if that makes sense.

So they're going too heavy on detail and they're burning capacity mentally and emotionally in the lead into the game.