During the last decade I have been employed as a sport psychology practitioner for the Swedish men’s handball team (further – the Team). Pinnacles of my work were psychological preparations for three consecutive Olympic Games (2012-2020). In this presentation I will share my narratives about the psychological preparations for these Games and lessons learned. Major interventions were carried out during the pre-Olympic camps about one month before the related Games. The content was adapted to match the request from the coach and my assessment of players’ needs. Below I organize my experiences in three narratives. The first is “The Team is in crisis, and I struggled to show competence and earn players’ trust”. The players gathered after a heartbreaking defeat in a qualifying match for a future World Championship. The Team were torn, and the 2012 Olympics was approaching fast. The coach highlighted the need for team building to mend the pieces and be able to perform as a unit. I answered the call by conducting group workshops and work with individual athletes clarifying roles and goals. The Team performed over expectations and won a silver medal. I for my part, won trust. The second narrative is entitled “Rio had a sweet melody, but we danced to a different tune”. Preparing for Rio 2016, the coach asked for a copy-paste story to repeat the prior success. The Team felt in harmony, and everything went (too) smooth, few players wanted to prepare for possible adversity. I worked with team dynamics and chose to mainly focus the individual work on potential stressors and coping. Soon I realized I was dancing on my own. Sweden ended last in their group, only winning one match. At the time I am writing this abstract, I plan for the pre-camp for Tokyo 2020 and my narrative so far is “It’s possible to be big in Japan but I’m the worrying kind”. There has been a rejuvenation of the Team and a new coaching staff focuses on the Team values requesting my mainly individual level work. I think we mix apples and oranges by talking about values but not about behaviors and not preparing enough for potential stressors. Here are the lessons learned to share: professional philosophy is dynamic and changes with experiences, the situation in the Team is a key for planning the applied work, and coaches’ requests may bring changes in the practitioner’s approach.