Always Have a Solution on the Board
Sports are filled with intriguing stories of underdogs beating the odds. Superior talent can often be deceptive when it is opposed by will...
Always Take Your Best Shot
Training should never become so grueling that it affects your performance in competition. Think of +20 as similar to an on-deck batter swi...
Your Tool Kit for Success
My goal is to provide you with the best mental-training program for excelling at your sport, and I want it simple and concrete. The 10-MT ...
Preparing for the Competition
The two keys to being fully prepared and having unwavering confidence in yourself are, first, to put the time and energy into doing everyt...
Tapping The Power of Goals
The value of goals has been widely measured and established beyond doubt. In fact, what two of the most prominent researchers on the subje...
Getting a Grip on Personal Rewards
Here is another method of measuring how much vision integrity your goals have. Think about the sport you emphasized in your lists of goals...
Leading with Your Mind
Mental toughness is abnormal, just as physical strength is abnormal. We are born without much muscle development. As we grow, if we don’t ...
Your Own Pursuit of Happiness
A number of years ago, I worked with a young gymnast who was loaded with talent. As a young man, he was ranked as one of the top twenty gy...
The Joy of Vision Integrity
As it turned out, Sharon was not setting goals for herself with vision integrity. She liked basketball and appreciated that she was skille...
Their Goals Versus Your Goals
Sharon, a business client who is an executive in the music industry, once told me, “Goals don’t work for me.” “How do you know that?” I as...
Goal-Setting Q&A
Each individual must formulate a unique and effective goal-setting program. Chapter 6 delineated the three levels of goals (ultimate, prod...
Personal Rewards Program
I ncentive-laden contracts have become commonplace among professional athletes over the past decade. More and more athletes have “escalato...
Keep Goals Alive, and Live the Dream
As I stated earlier, most coaches and athletes look at goals only a couple of times per season. This is not an effective use of goals. For...
No Excuses; Go Public
It is important to write your goals down and let others know of your intentions. The act of writing down as well as talking about your goa...
Three Levels of Goals
The 10-Minute Toughness mental workout is optimized when athletes know how to set effective goals for themselves. The three levels, or typ...
Paradox of the Product Goal
Steve’s way of thinking is an all-too-common mistake that athletes make with goals. I call this the paradox of the product goal. The parad...
Goal Setting For Greatness
The second phase of the 10-Minute Toughness mental-training plan is the identification and achievement of goals. I believe the 10-MT goals...
Once More with Feeling
Remember: the centering breath is a deep breath used to physiologically control heart rate and arousal. Taking a centering breath at the e...
Another Centering Breath and Away We Go
At midnight (CST) in St. Louis, my phone rang. It was one of my clients, a college baseball player who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. “What ti...
Creating Your Identity Statement
I encourage athletes to create a two-part identity statement. The first part indicates a strength you currently have or want to have. Be s...
Self-Image Management Is the Answer
In a revised version of Dr. Maxwell Maltz’s work PsychoCybernetics, testimonies from top athletes such as Jack Nicklaus and Payne Stewart ...
Who Are You and What Do You Want?
This choice of how you view yourself is the essence of the identity statement, the fourth tool in the mental workout. The identity stateme...
The Identity Statement
An identity statement is a self-statement designed to improve self-image. Your self-image is essentially how you view yourself—what streng...
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