What Is The Courage to Win?
All sport is led by the mind. That‘s why we define the ‘Courage to Win’ in Sport as your ability to perform your best under pressure.
The Instructions You Are About To Read Will Show You Exactly How To Gain Breakthrough Confidence In Any Sport. Great athletes are not people who perform well under pressure.
Nobody performs well under pressure.
Great athletes are people who create an internal environment for themselves, in which, they do not feel overwhelming pressure.
What all athletes (including your competitors) are doing is focusing on winning. They‘re wondering how they can look good to spectators, coaches, and teammates.
They wonder how to stop themselves from choking. For the most part, they wonder, how to avoid losing.
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These impulses are a big disadvantage to winning. They are a big disadvantage because they put pressure on you by creating fear, because you cannot control any of these things.
Your edge will come from approaching your competition differently than your opponents.
You will learn how to do this through mental toughness training with us.
There‘s a lot that goes into developing your mental toughness, and it will help you believe in your athletic self, psyche up for your event, and be resilient in the face of adversity, setbacks, and challenges during your events.
Open Your Mind
Warning: This is not a re-hash of traditional sport psychology techniques such as positive thinking.
It goes way deeper than most of these techniques and will literally ‗blow the lid off what you‘ve been hearing for years…that‘s why I‘m asking you to keep an open mind.
Basketball superstar Michael Jordan admits how hard it can be to open his mind to new ‗inner game ways. When his coach, Phil Jackson, brought in a sports psychologist to teach the team about getting in the zone, Michael thought it was crazy:
When we first started meditating before practice, I‘m closing one eye and keeping the other eye open to see what other fool is doing this beside me.
Unfortunately, a dark side of me came out too. This self was insecure, egotistical, and selfish. My dark side manifested in extreme confidence swings.
One week I was invincible; the next, my confidence came crashing down. I never knew why, and it hurt me all the time. My insecurity reached its zenith at the 1991 National Championships, where we lost with one second left on the clock.
It‘s hard to express my despair over this game in words. Losing hurt, but my deepest anguish came from the fact that I had choked in the biggest game of the year.
Worse, a friend of mine scored all 5 of our goals, but I wasn‘t happy for him. Outwardly, I pretended to be happy: "Well done, Shawn. Way to go."
Inwardly, I was eating my heart out. I wanted to be a leader, but I had no idea how.
Exhausted and depressed on the plane home, I broke, letting out the fear and shame I had been suppressing for years.
I was only in my mid 20‘s, but my fearful self had become more dominant than my confident self in virtually every area of my life. There had to be something better.
I soon realized I was not alone. Many athletes are in a similar situation.
They‘ve worked hard on themselves, gained self-awareness and wisdom, yet are still underachieving.
I embarked on a mission to find answers. I wanted to know: “What do other successful athletes know about mental toughness that I DON’T?”
I scoured self-help literature, absorbing over four hundred personal development books.
I did personal counseling, cognitive therapy, Al-Anon groups, neuro-linguistic programming, energy medicine, acupuncture, telephone psychotherapy, hypnosis, and thought field therapy.
I practiced sports psychology, meditation, yoga, positive thinking, and visualization. I studied food sensitivities, allergies, and nutrition to learn the effect of food on emotions.
I kept journals, set goals, listened to audio programs in my car, and attended self-improvement seminars. I got a job with a management consulting firm and studied under leadership coaches.
I took certification training from four leading transformation gurus. I learned many valuable techniques and lessons, but the self-mastery I sought remained elusive.
I did have one thing going for me: the athlete‘s perspective. In sport, there is always another shift, another game, another chance. There is always hope. I channeled this perspective into the investigative journey of the Courage to Win.
My story has a happy ending. I went on to play ringette for Team Canada for ten years, scoring the winning goals in the dying minute of 3 World Ringette Championships.
I retired from competitive sport only when age forced me to, 30 years after the day I began.
The Courage to Win concepts in this book have been researched, developed, and tested in applied work with over 2,000 athletes for proven results.
Today is the dawn of a new era for you. Your confidence will grow, your skills will improve, and your performance anxiety will fade.
You will think competing is easier, but it will be you who has changed.
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