By Terry Orlick
Reach your strength! even if you're an athlete, a trainer, or a promising excessive achiever in one other stroll of existence, In Pursuit of Excellence presents the professional suggestion and confirmed ideas that can assist you satisfy your aspirations.
Author Terry Orlick, an across the world acclaimed game psychologist, has helped hundreds of thousands of Olympic athletes maximize their performances and attain their targets. during this fourth variation, Orlick offers new insights and a strong step by step plan that you can advance your individual own route to excellence.
You'll discover ways to concentration for excellence and fine quality dwelling. you are going to achieve a extra confident outlook, a extra centred dedication, higher methods of facing distractions, and techniques for overcoming hindrances. you will additionally in achieving higher own delight and become aware of greater how you can paintings with teammates, reply extra successfully to training, and turn into extra self-directed on your recommendations and actions.
Both functional and inspirational, In Pursuit of Excellence is a consultant to day-by-day residing and motivation in addition to a street map to long term success. learn it, use it, and win with it—on and rancid the sector.
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Think about your successes in training, simulations, and previous performances. Find the positive parts of all your experiences and performances. Think about how you will achieve your goals. What will you focus on? Continually draw out the focus lessons to improve the quality and consistency of your performances. Although you may occasionally perform well without feeling fully confident, you are much more likely to perform to your potential on a consistent basis if your confidence and your focus are working together for you.
When a loved one leaves you behind there is no filling the void, but you can make a conscious choice to continue living your life in honor of theirs. A little over a year after I received Dan’s first e-mail, he wrote to me to share how he had directed his focus (chapters 3 and 11) and imagery (chapter 8) toward a best-ever shooting performance and a major competition victory. I simply wanted to share with you my experience in competing for the Connaught Cup. This cup is awarded to the best shooter in the RCMP.
When you develop, direct, and connect your focus, you strengthen all elements of excellence that add quality and consistency to your performance and joy to your life. The other elements of excellence (commitment, mental readiness, positive images, confidence, distraction control, and ongoing learning) grow out of your focus, take direction from your focus, connect you and reconnect you with your mission, and make excellence possible. The combination of the seven elements in the wheel of excellence empowers you to become the person and performer that you have the potential to be.