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The FCL Team

We just wrapped up our Best in Class Women's events this week. As we addressed the 2028 group prior to the event, we spoke about confidence.

We believe confidence is a skill that can be trained. And, like any skill, you can practice confidence and improve.

We heard a formula that we like for confidence:

Confidence = Preparation minus attachment to results.

This is simple, yet challenging to practice. Let’s think about what it means in context for lacrosse players this summer trying to perform their best.

You’re coming off a spring season where you likely practiced a ton, trained and improved. Many players worked through off-season lifting and training programs. If you read these emails and are serious about playing at the next level you probably have also put in a ton of reps on your own time.

The point is, you’ve likely done the preparation. Most high performers don’t give themselves enough credit for their preparation. This does not mean you cannot continue to improve in this area, it just means you should recognize that you have prepared heavily.

The next piece of the confidence formula is absolutely critical, you must let go of your attachment to the results. Results (i.e., outcomes) are things like making a team, getting ranked / written up, scoring a bunch of goals or getting recruited.

Because many of us want these things, we naturally get overly attached to them. This means we assign our definition of “success” to results that we cannot control. This is a perfect recipe for anxiety, the antithesis of confidence.

It’s hard to be confident when you are defining success by multiple factors outside of your control.

Rather than attach yourself to results, set standards you will hold yourself to. The critical thing about standards is that they are behavior-based, not performance-based.

A standard should not be:

A standard could be:

You control all four of those.

Standards tell you how to behave. Visualization prepares you to execute when the moment gets hard.

Here's how it works:

When you do this, you should feel like you are in the moment. You may even feel your heart rate spike up. This is good!

Your brain doesn't fully distinguish between a vividly imagined rep and a real one. You are building familiarity with a high-pressure moment before you're in it. When it shows up in the game, it doesn't feel new because it isn't.

Do this before every event this summer. Pick one scenario. Five minutes. That's it.

The players who show up confident aren't the ones who got lucky with their nerves. They're the ones who prepared their mind the same way they prepared their body.

Coach Class and Coach Dunn

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