About the Author: Dr. Jim Taylor

The results you want often take much longer than you had hoped for or expected, but here's something you can do about it.

If you are judging your season only on your point profile, you are making a big mistake.

It’s hard to believe, but there is only about a month of the race season left.

Just like sleep, you want to create an external and internal environment that will allow fast skiing to emerge naturally.

Ski team activities give our family a sense of belonging and connectedness that can’t be readily reproduced anywhere else in our lives.

If you panic when you’re struggling, you’re almost certain to turn a bad patch into a bad season.

The World Championships provide an amazing lesson that all ski racers can learn from, namely, how to deal with the burden of expectation before a big race.

A recent Tahoe League event gave me my first direct experience as a ski racing parent.

The more you can make training like a race, the more you will ingrain in your body and mind the skills and habits to ski fast in a race.

The results are just icing on the cake.

Do you think Bode Miller or Tina Maze or Ted Ligety or Julia Mancuso or Lindsey Vonn or Marcel Hirscher are normal people?

Ski racing is hard enough without negative thinking, doubt, worry, and uncertainty.

When I ask most racers and coaches how they define success, it is usually in terms of results – placing, points, rankings, or qualifying quotas.

I consider mindset to be an essential piece of the “fast skiing” puzzle and a mental area that I have only just been exploring the past three years.

Are you ready for another rollercoaster ride called a winter of ski racing? The fact is that it’s hard being a ski racing parent.

I saw a very different Mikaela Shiffrin win (in a tie with Anna Fenninger) the first World Cup race of the 2014-15 season.

Sport psychologist Dr. Jim Taylor provides a review of key articles from past seasons as a refresher for athletes.

There are only weeks before the opening ski races of the season. Will you be ready, both physically and mentally, for the start of winter?