So far, we discussed how sport psychology and mental preparation and toughness can help you with your performance.

In this section, we discuss how psychology, mental preparation, and toughness can help you to feel good about yourself and be a happier, healthier person on and off of the soccer field.

Using our performance model, this section looks at both thinking and feeling – this is because how you feel about yourself is largely dependent on how you think of yourself and how you interpret the thoughts and opinions of others.