You can't play it for them. But you can give them the Blueprint: their mindset measured, then moved, step by step with Matt, and the playbook for home in your hands.
UNH captain, nearly a decade of pro hockey, and mental performance coach to athletes in the NHL, NFL, and PGA Tour. He built the Blueprint, and he's a father, which shows in every word of it.
“Matt's approach is straight forward and focuses on the fundamentals of high performance.”
Joe Pavelski · NHL All-Star · 1,000+ NHL games
You've tried the pep talk and you've tried saying nothing, and neither one reaches them. That silence isn't attitude. It's a kid with no way back to the version of themselves they were last week. The Blueprint is the way back, and it's theirs to walk.
Written from your kid's exact results. What to say, what to skip, and why, for the moments that actually happen, and it updates with every retake.
This isn't therapy. It's the same mental reps the pros do, written for your kid.
The thing that's been invisible their whole career gets a name and a number. For most kids it's the first honest look they've ever had, and the fog lifting is a physical feeling.
Their commitments, their words, their signature. It goes on the wall, and on the days they don't feel like it, the wall talks back.
A power word, a breath, an anchor: ten seconds and they're back. The error that used to wreck a whole game now costs them one pitch, one shift, one play.
Every kid has a competitive self they've only met on their best days. MAMBA installs it, so showing up like that stops being weather and starts being a choice.
A streak is a kid proving to themselves, one day at a time, that their word means something. That feeling doesn't stay in sports.
The score is a photo, not a tattoo. They can always take it again, which means the story is always still being written, and they're holding the pen.
Step by step they build their own Standard: the commitments they choose, in their words, signed with their name. It prints, it goes above the desk, and they wrote it, not you, which is exactly why they'll defend it.
The daily commitments I live by
I, Tyler, hold myself to the standards below as my own.
This is Tyler's season: Level 2 in January, Level 4 by November, one retake at a time. The line between two results is the proof the work is working.
The Blueprint by Project Limitless is a one-time mental performance program for youth athletes, created by Matt Fornataro, a former professional hockey player who coaches NHL, NFL, and PGA Tour athletes. It combines the Mindset Index, an age-adjusted assessment that measures an athlete's mindset level, with guided training the athlete runs themselves: the Personal Standard, the Reset Button, MAMBA, and a daily habit tracker, plus a personalized Parent Playbook. The Blueprint costs $399.99 one time, with no subscription, and includes unlimited retakes.
The Mindset Index is Project Limitless's assessment of where an athlete's mindset is right now versus their peak self. The questions are written for the athlete's age, and the result is a level from 1 to 6 with the factors carrying or holding them. It measures a state that trains, and athletes retake it to see the movement, because the movement between two results is the proof the work is paying off.
Personality tests sort your kid into a box and leave them there. The Mindset Index measures a state, not a trait: where their mindset is right now versus their peak self. It moves, they retake it, and the whole point is watching it climb.
Consent comes first, always: you create the account, you approve everything, and under 13 you enroll them yourself, one at a time. Questions are written for their age, and there's no leaderboard anywhere on the platform.
You and your athlete. If they're part of a partner organization, their coach sees a read-only picture built to help them coach, never to cut or rank. Nobody gets benched or labeled by a number, and we put that in writing with every organization we work with.
Don't force it. The honesty check will flag a phoned-in assessment and we'll ask them to retake it. If they're not ready, wait a month. We'd rather have real data later than rushed data now.
Kids' data never lands in front of the wrong eyes. Parent consent gates everything, results are never used against the athlete, and every comparison on the platform is your kid against their own peak self.
One sitting, untimed, at their own pace. Skipped questions come back at the end, and progress saves if they step away.
As often as the work deserves it. Retakes are unlimited and included for life, and the Parent Playbook updates with every one.
No. A sports psychologist is the right call for clinical concerns like anxiety or depression, and the Blueprint is not therapy. It's a structured mental training program: measure the mindset, train it daily, retest. Many families start here because it's measurable and self-paced, and if anything in the results suggests your kid needs more, see a licensed professional.
If your kid's first report doesn't show you something about them you've never seen, tell us and you don't pay. That's the same promise we make to every organization we work with.
“It's not just some book.”