Empowering Athletes to Reach Their Potential in Sports and LIfe - TTST Interview with Larissa Mills of the Mental Game Academy

Show Notes

About 10 years ago in Larissa’s role as a teacher, parent and coach, she observed a dramatic increase in unwanted and even violent behavior in children. Larissa noticed a possible link between this negative behavior and the increase in children’s cell phone use. This inspired her to start a research proposal to investigate further. In preliminary interviews with school administrators, teachers and early childhood educators, there was a resounding consensus indicating a negative change in children’s behavior since the introduction of handheld devices in the classroom and at home. Larissa’s focus quickly expanded to include how parents balance and monitor their children’s use of cell phones and devices. Today, this negative, and often violent behavior is still occurring and becoming increasingly worse.  By not heeding the medical guidelines, children will be unteachable in the classroom.

Quote: Be your kids landing mat, not their spitting mat - Larissa Mills

Knowledge Nuggets and Take-Aways:

• Our children's attention span is declining by the year. And if not checked will lead to real problems such as depression, burnout and not being able to cope with life
• We are not preparing kids for the real world mentally, to start to change this we need to balance our ‘tech’ out. And that starts with the hand held cell phone
• Larissa’s 4 favorite ‘F’ words in sports. Fun, Fear, Failure and Fearlessness. Make the connections with the feelings
• As  young athletes, they are always developing. Work with them to stick to routines that serve them and that will start with limiting cell phone usage. 
• Larissa is committed to being a productive human being, keeping dialogue open to progress and is planting trees she will never sit in the shade of. 

Here is a link to this episode on our website:  https://timetoshinetoday.com/podcast/larissamills/ 

Recommended Resources:  

Visit The Mental Game Academy 

Larissa’s Linked IN

The Mental Game Academy Instagram

The Mental Game Academy Facebook

Host Your Podcast for Free with Buzz Sprout 

Our Show Sponsor Sutter and Nugent Real Estate - Real Estate Excellence 

Music Courtesy of: fight by urmymuse (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/urmymuse/58696 Ft: Stefan Kartenberg, Kara Square

Artwork courtesy of Dylan Allen