Ron Schmittling Mental Performance Coach

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Guiding athletes, coaches & parents to master the mind and elevate performance.

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Two voices in an athlete's head, and only one of them can hit.The first one is loud. Come on. Let's go. Be a dog. That v...
09/11/2026

Two voices in an athlete's head, and only one of them can hit.

The first one is loud. Come on. Let's go. Be a dog. That voice is great for conditioning and useless at the plate, because it doesn't tell the hands anything.

The second one gives one instruction the body can execute. Stay through it. See it deep. Slow feet.

Research backs this up — instructional cues beat motivational cues on precision tasks, and every skill under pressure is a precision task.

A top-five player in the world won a match this week and the only thing she reported saying to herself was four words long.

Your kid doesn't need more words than she does.

Homework for this weekend: pick one cue, say it out loud before every rep, and don't change it when the count gets to 0-2.

If she changes it — that's not a swing problem. That's the thing worth looking at.

Free Parent's Playbook:
coachronmpm.com/parents-playbook

"Mental lesson that stuck with us as parents from Coach Ron? Moving on. You can't dwell on the past but you can impact t...
09/10/2026

"Mental lesson that stuck with us as parents from Coach Ron? Moving on. You can't dwell on the past but you can impact the future."

— Carmen & John Kastens, parents of a coached athlete

Parents ask me what changes. Here's a family answering it in their own words, years later.

What changed for their daughter: "More focus on process and what she could control."

What changed for them: moving on. Not dwelling. Making that transition inside the game instead of waiting until the ride home.

That second one matters more than people expect. A kid learns how long a mistake lives by watching how long it lives in the car.

She graduated from Brown. She's a project manager now. The softball part ended a while ago. The other part didn't.

Book the Mental Performance Diagnostic — 30–45 minutes
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Four sentences parents say on Friday night that add a second job:"Big one tonight.""We really need you today.""Just go o...
09/09/2026

Four sentences parents say on Friday night that add a second job:

"Big one tonight."
"We really need you today."
"Just go out and have fun" — said with a face that clearly means something else.
"Coach is watching."

None of them are cruel. Every one of them tells a fifteen-year-old that somebody in the stands is keeping score of more than the score.

A US captain said nine words about the best golfer in the world this week: "I just want Nelly to be Nelly." No more, no less, enjoy the week.

That's the whole script. It's not soft. It's a performance instruction — it removes the second job so she only has to do the first one.

Try it before the next one. Then say nothing else about the game until she brings it up.

Which of the four do you catch yourself saying?

Free Parent's Playbook:
coachronmpm.com/parents-playbook

Eddie slept on my bag by the front door every single night before a tournament.Not because he knew where I was going. He...
09/08/2026

Eddie slept on my bag by the front door every single night before a tournament.

Not because he knew where I was going. He just knew the bag meant early, and he wanted to be in the way when early happened.

I've thought about that a lot since February. He didn't do anything to prepare. He picked a spot and he was in it.

Most of what I teach athletes about pre-game routine is honestly not far off that. Pick the spot. Be in it. Stop negotiating with yourself about whether tonight is a big one.

The dog understood it. He just never wrote it down.

Anybody else have one who slept on the gear bag?

It's Labor Day, so here's the least glamorous sentence in sports.The work that builds a lead is the exact same work that...
09/07/2026

It's Labor Day, so here's the least glamorous sentence in sports.

The work that builds a lead is the exact same work that finishes one.

Nobody films that part. There's no highlight of a pitcher throwing her fourth straight strike in the sixth inning with a three-run lead. There's no clip of a point guard running the offense at plus-eleven.

That's the work, though. And it's the work almost every athlete quietly stops doing the moment the scoreboard starts looking good.

Watch it happen at the next tournament. Your kid isn't tired at 5-3. She's careful. And careful looks exactly like tired from the bleachers, which is why so many families leave the parking lot arguing about conditioning when conditioning had nothing to do with it.

New on the blog this morning: The 5-3 Problem — why athletes lose leads, and the one question that finds it in about four seconds.

Ask her tonight: "What were you trying to do on the last point of the last game you lost?"

If the answer starts with "not" — you just found it.

Free Parent's Playbook:
coachronmpm.com/parents-playbook

A lighthouse doesn't get a vote on the storm.It doesn't get to pick the weather, the season, or who's out on the water. ...
09/06/2026

A lighthouse doesn't get a vote on the storm.

It doesn't get to pick the weather, the season, or who's out on the water. It holds position and it keeps the beam on.

This week a lot of people found out that the thing they thought they were was actually assigned to them, and could be reassigned.

So here's the Sunday version. Your role is weather. Your beam is yours.

Find it before Monday.

Winning starts within.

Spotlight this week goes to the parents at the 7 a.m. pool, field and gym.You are three weeks into school, mid-tryout se...
09/05/2026

Spotlight this week goes to the parents at the 7 a.m. pool, field and gym.

You are three weeks into school, mid-tryout season, and a lot of you are driving a kid who just got news she didn't want. You made the coffee anyway. You loaded the car anyway. You said very little on the way, which was exactly right.

That's not nothing. That's the whole support system, running on four hours of sleep and a folding chair.

Tag the parent who's been in that chair with you all season.

Carlos Alcaraz walked into the US Open this week with zero warm-up matches.Four and a half months out with a wrist. Miss...
09/04/2026

Carlos Alcaraz walked into the US Open this week with zero warm-up matches.

Four and a half months out with a wrist. Missed the French, Wimbledon, Toronto, Cincinnati. He'd targeted Cincinnati for the comeback and gave the wrist more time instead.

So he showed up to a Grand Slam with no competitive reps.

Here's the part worth teaching your kid. He said "not yet" to the easy on-ramp — and then showed up anyway to the hard one.

Those are two different skills. Most athletes only have the second, which is how you get a kid rushing back three weeks after an injury and calling it toughness.

Readiness isn't reps. And "I'm behind" — which is true, and fine — is a completely different claim than "I'm not ready."

🩺 coachronmpm.com/diagnostic

"Coach Ron taught us to prepare for failure — that we are not defined by the game."— Ryleigh Jones, Quincy University gr...
09/03/2026

"Coach Ron taught us to prepare for failure — that we are not defined by the game."

— Ryleigh Jones, Quincy University graduate, Elementary Education

Preparing for failure isn't pessimism. It's the reason a bad Saturday doesn't turn into a bad October.

The athletes who get through a demotion, a slump, or a roster change intact all have the same thing in common. They decided who they were before somebody else got a vote.

🩺 coachronmpm.com/diagnostic

Four rules for the car ride after your kid doesn't get the spot. You get about four minutes and it happens at forty mile...
09/02/2026

Four rules for the car ride after your kid doesn't get the spot. You get about four minutes and it happens at forty miles an hour.

1. Say the true thing first. "That's a gut punch. I'm sorry." That's the whole opening. No "but" after it — "but" erases every word in front of it.

2. Then be quiet. Real silence, not a three-second pause on the way to your point. Turn the radio down and drive. Most kids start talking around the second mile.

3. Don't litigate the coach. Every minute spent on whether it was fair is a minute she spends outside her own control.

4. Ask one question — that night, not in the car: "What do you want to be true by October?"

That's it. It moves her from verdict to project without pretending the verdict didn't hurt.

👉 coachronmpm.com/parents-playbook

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