Dan Mickle - Performance Psychology Professional

16/09/2026

🔹 Is self trust developed through repetition or reflection?

🧠 Some say this is a crucial element of sports success, while others believe it is secondary. What are your thoughts on this? Should it be prioritized more, or does it depend on the athlete?

No wrong answers, just perspectives. What is yours?

15/09/2026

Your mindset is contagious; make it worth catching.

15/09/2026

Have you ever started a new job and discovered there were dozens of things everyone expected you to know, but no one had actually told you?

This week’s It Got Me Thinking is about the imaginary manual that should come with every new role, especially the page titled “Things Nobody Will Think to Tell You.”

What would have appeared on the first page of yours?

Being qualified for a role does not mean someone taught you its unwritten rules, hidden systems, and unspoken expectations.

14/09/2026

🔹 Should recovery be planned as intentionally as training?

🧠 Some say this is a crucial element of sports success, while others believe it is secondary. What are your thoughts on this? Should it be prioritized more, or does it depend on the athlete?

No wrong answers, just perspectives. What is yours?

13/09/2026

What if your morning started with one idea worth carrying into the rest of your day?

One Day One is a short daily email about the choices, conversations, frustrations, small victories, and ordinary moments that shape our lives. It is thoughtful, practical, occasionally funny, and short enough to read with your morning coffee.

One day or Day One. It’s your choice.

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One short daily reflection and a simple prompt to help you stop waiting for one day and make today Day One.

11/09/2026

🔹 Is awareness more important than effort?

🧠 Some say this is a crucial element of sports success, while others believe it is secondary. What are your thoughts on this? Should it be prioritized more, or does it depend on the athlete?

No wrong answers, just perspectives. What is yours?

10/09/2026

Composure under pressure is a practiced habit.

09/09/2026

🔹 Should athletes practice decision making under fatigue?

🧠 Some say this is a crucial element of sports success, while others believe it is secondary. What are your thoughts on this? Should it be prioritized more, or does it depend on the athlete?

No wrong answers, just perspectives. What is yours?

08/09/2026

Great players play free because they’ve trained with structure.

08/09/2026

I looked up in a waiting room recently and realized almost everyone was staring at a phone.

Then I realized I was only noticing because I had finally looked up from mine.

We are really good at filling every empty moment now. But sports are full of moments that are not exciting, and getting good at something often means staying engaged long after the novelty is gone.

So this week I started wondering whether boredom might actually be one of the places attention gets trained.

IGMT #059 is called “Nothing Happened,” and fittingly, the call to action this week is no action at all.

Read it here:

What if boredom is not something athletes need to escape, but a quiet place where attention gets trained?