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Confidence is essential to success, happiness, and peace of mind. Whether it be in sports, business, or any other area of life, the most confident people tend to be the most successful. But despite knowing how important confidence is, it's easy to lose your self-confidence and start doubting yourself—especially during difficult times. Revealing the confidence-building techniques used by some of the greatest coaches of all time, this book will show you how to build and maintain confidence while eliminating self-doubt and insecurity.

John Callahan is a man who has spent his life following his calling as a high school football coach just like his legendary father. But his dream life is suddenly being crushed. Just days before the state championship game, John receives news that his beloved school is declaring bankruptcy and will be shutting down at the end of the year. Everything John has worked his whole life for is being taken away from him. John is now questioning all his past decisions and he's angry at himself for not taking more "practical" opportunities when they came along.

Did you know that anyone can learn to achieve flow? This book shows you how. Discover the secret weapon of champions: Flow. Unlike a rare talent, anyone can learn to cultivate this state and access peak performance in their sport. Create the optimal conditions for cultivating flow in your own athletic career. Cultivating the flow state in sport can be a powerful way to improve your performance and achieve a greater sense of satisfaction and enjoyment in your athletic pursuits.

The mental game of golf remains, to many players, a mystery. Its importance cannot be overstated, with PGA Tour professionals agreeing that golf is 80% mental and 20% mechanical at the highest level. Silent Mind Golf is unique in that it not only explains how the mind can work against you in detail. It also gives you the tools to improve your mental game through explanations and exercises.

What sets the very best footballers apart from the rest? It’s not about ability but about being able to perform at your peak level consistently. You train your ability regularly, but do you leave your form down to ‘luck’ and simply hope you have a good game? Thanks to developments in our understanding of how the brain works, you can now effectively train to improve your form by conditioning your thoughts and behaviour in all aspects of your life. This engages the parts of the brain that enable you to perform consistently on the football pitch.

Are you a beginner golfer struggling to break 100? Tired of wasting strokes on the course and not knowing where to focus your practice? Break 100 is your complete roadmap to becoming a confident, consistent player—without needing expensive gear or private lessons. Written specifically for high-handicap and beginner golfers, this practical, no-fluff guide teaches you how to play smarter, improve faster, and lower your scores round after round.

Are you ready to master the exciting game of craps? In Craps for Beginners: Simple Steps to Become a Skilled Craps Player, you'll learn how to confidently approach the craps table and improve your skills with easy-to-follow instructions. Whether you’re new to the game or want to refine your strategy, this guide will help you understand the rules, bets, and strategies to maximize your winning potential.

Courage Over Confidence offers a new approach to conquering the mental game of sports. Written for competitive young athletes, as well as professionals and Olympians, it is also a game changer for coaches and parents looking for ways to further help their aspiring athletes. In this book, renowned clinical and sport psychologist Dr. Mitchell Greene explodes one of the field’s most common and malicious myths—that confidence is a prerequisite for athletic success.

Famous, three-time Grand Slam winner, Arthur Ashe, pointed out that many in sport fall victim to, “paralysis by analysis”. Athletes on any level can experience the pain of overthinking and sabotaging their performance. Blame many traditional methods of teaching and training.

The Essential Sporting Mind Toolkit will help you develop the sports performance mind skills for mental toughness, to optimize performance and fulfill your true potential. It's every sportsperson's how to guide to achieve true potential. Even the most talented, fit and dedicated athletes fall short on training their minds.

Champion Minds is your gateway to the hallowed secrets of athletic motivation that have catapulted countless sportspeople to the pinnacle of their games. Benefit from the wisdom of the best, and tap into the reservoir of mental fortitude you need to amplify your performance.

The Thursday Speeches pulls back the curtain to put listeners in the room with exclusive access to the compelling pregame speeches from one of the best college football coaches in history. The book reveals the exact words James used to inspire the Huskies to slay the football giants of his day. It features the inspiring stories and invaluable life lessons that Coach Don James used to transform the University of Washington football program from obscurity to the national championship.

In The Joy of Poker, Jason Su breaks down why the traditional tenets of mindset coaching and sports psychology are not only ineffective at dealing with these issues, but in most cases are the actual cause of them.

In this groundbreaking book, Rebecca Smith, M.A.A, sought after Mental Performance Coach, former fearful gymnast, gymnastics coach, and mom demystifies the process of guiding your athlete through a mental block, without being too controlling or too involved.

The captivating book fearless, expertly, and comprehensibly explains to parents and coaches how the brain and the minds of athletes work. Using specific examples, the author analyzes the impact of feedback on thinking, perception, attention, and even the quality of a player's coordination. Parents often do not realize how their influence shapes the neural network of their child. The book takes you into the depths of neuroscience, sports psychology, and provides you with knowledge and skills to be a better coach for your child.

As an athlete in my sophomore year of college, I found myself miserable. Two years later, as a senior, I enjoyed the most satisfying basketball season of my life. My path from depression and anxiety to joy and peak performance was somewhat unconventional. A therapist taught me to meditate, enabling me to face my problems instead of shrinking from them. By modifying my habits regarding drugs, partying and my phone, and reading meaningful books, I developed new attitudes toward both my sport and my life.

Stop leaving your sports performances down to chance. Implement our 5 simple science-backed mental toughness strategies and start seeing improvements straight away. Expertly written with real-world advice and key psychological insights, The Mental Resilience Method for Young Athletes reveals 5 powerful science-based techniques that will propel your athletic performances into the realm of the champions.

In this behind-the-scenes look at the making of a champion, the coach of the Villanova University men’s basketball team shares his competitive and cooperative philosophy, along with lessons from his coaching career and the story of his personal road to success. When Kris Jenkins sank a...

Kenneth Fuller, MD, an avid weekend warrior and leading psychiatrist, shares his performance enhancement skills to lead you to better, more enjoyable golf. This established authority on mental triumph delivers a methodology that uses autosuggestion to help you master your thoughts and induce a conditioned reflex. The human brain creates focus and finds the best performance zone. Playing only with the body limits the golfer. A genuine golfer plays with body and mind. The golf artist plays with mind, body, and heart. The professional golfer trusts every element unconsciously.

No se puede negar el hecho de que los atletas profesionales trabajan bajo un gran estrés y luchan con problemas como la ansiedad y la fatiga. De hecho, estadísticas recientes han revelado que más del 90% de los atletas universitarios se quejaron de problemas de estrés y sueño, entre otros problemas. Pero esto no significa que no haya manera de solucionar estos problemas: hay un océano de consejos y estrategias útiles que te ayudarán a superar tus miedos y fracasos.