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Topic: Mind - October 31 2025
Growth After Falling Short

One of the hardest moments in sport is coming so close to your goal and still falling short. But what if that frustration is actually your fuel? VIS Experts and mental performance coaches Lindsay Roberts and Anna Hennings explain how to process disappointment, reframe failure, and turn a near miss into a launchpad for progress.

By Kaitlin MacDonald

VIS Creator

& Anna Hennings, MA, CMPC

VIS Expert

Topic: Mind

October 31 2025

Growth Short Feed
Every athlete has experienced failure in some capacity. Sometimes we perform our absolute best and still don’t achieve what we wanted to, and this can be extremely heartbreaking.  This experience is almost always viewed as something negative, but it's rarely discussed how failure to reach a goal can guide us toward our long-term progression as athletes. We can turn moments like these into something positive, and VIS Experts and mental performance coaches, Linsday Roberts and Ann...
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