Forming a Question: Sessions 1+2 with my Supervisor

I had my first meeting with my Supervisor on June the 18th. Going into the meeting, I had a very broad idea of what I would liked to have based my question on, however didn't have specific ideas mainly due to the reason that even though Sports Psychology is a subject I'm extremely interested about, the only idea's I had were to do with information I've already learnt and therefore couldn't and didn't want to base my question on.

As a result of this, our meeting was pretty short, and  I was given a textbook to look through, as well as the use of Google Scholar at my disposal to try and get a list of ideas of anything we could work with to form a question.

I researched for a few hours at least, reading different articles and textbook chapters, and wrote down around 10 ideas I could do for my project, many of them linked in some way. I then narrowed my options down to 4 ideas that I really loved:

• 'the effects of psychological factors on our sporting performance'
• 'the preferred leadership/coaching styles of different groups of performers'
• 'the effects of psychological factors on learning a new skill'
• 'the effects of stress/anxiety on our sporting performance and ways to manage it'

I then completed a SWOT analysis of 3 of these ideas (as idea 1 and 3 are so similar I mixed them together) and then went into my next meeting with knowledge of the 4 ideas in better detail.

During my second meeting with my supervisor, we both agreed on the question 'The Effects of Stress/Anxiety on Sporting Performance and Ways To Manage It' as we believed it would be very interesting and make for a detailed and fun project, especially as I could not only use secondary research, I could also conduct my own primary research in the form of an experiment.