The Never Enough Mentality

Microcosm Coaching Team Call 01/20/2023

The “Never Enough” mentality and approach to work, life, relationships, and financial status is an ever present part of today’s culture. It shows up everywhere, and for athletes this same mentality crosses over to training and goal setting- and has far reaching impacts on our mental health and overall contentment in an athletic life.

On today's call, we define what this mentality is and discuss several ways in which we see it manifest in ourselves and in the athletes we coach. We’re doing this in an attempt to help athlete’s become more aware of this mentality, so you all can better avoid the pitfalls in living in this mindset, and in the process develop a stronger relationship with yourselves while feeling more contentment in an athletic life.

As the call develops, we try to offer practical methods and solutions for working through the never enough mentality in training and in goal setting. We also lean on Licensed Clinical Social Worker and mental health expert Sarah Strong to offer us mindfulness tips and active solutions to help us grow our awareness and perspectives around this subject. The goal here is to help our athletes get to a place where they make better decisions in training and goal setting. Ultimately, so many of these takeaways can be applied right back into life too, so make sure you stick around to listen to this part of the call, because ultimately the most important relationship you have is the one with yourself. No achievement will ever feel like it’s enough if your self-worth isn’t intact.

I hope you enjoy this episode and as usual, if you have any feedback, a question for a future call or are looking for support in your running journey, please visit us on the web at microcosm-coaching.com or contact us at [email protected]