Set goals that are specific, measurable, and objective. Plant reminders to keep one aware of the direness of the situation, and allow participant to keep those stressors in mind and channel them into their performance.

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A state of confidence, absorption, perceptions of control, enhanced motivation, enjoyment, and altered sensory perceptions accompanied by intense critical thoughts.  In clutch state, some report feeling anxiety, effortful concentration, and heightened awareness of the situation's direness.

Clutch State

Christian Swann, Lee Crust, Patricia Jackman, Stewart A. Vella, Mark S. Allen & Richard Keegan (2017) Psychological States Underlying Excellent Performance in Sport: Toward an Integrated Model of Flow and Clutch States, Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 29:4, 375-401, DOI: 10.1080/10413200.2016.1272650

Psychological States Underlying Excellent Performance in Sport: Toward an Integrated Model of Flow and Clutch States

While the two states have much in common, Clutch State is accompanied by intense critical thoughts, anxiety, effortful concentration, and heightened awareness of the situation's direness. Flow State, on the contrary, is characterized by a feeling of naturalness.

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